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The Pause- a recognition of a life

Don't Forget the Bubbles

Definitive emotional support is critical to our emotional and psychological well-being. The Pause Jonathon Bartels worked as an Emergency Nurse in America in 2009. After the death of a young person in the Emergency Department, he initiated ‘ The Pause.’ Journal of Trauma Nursing. Psychological harm occurs.

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"To every thing there is a season. "

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Consider the traumas and medical emergencies that have a seasonal prominence in your locality, then prepare topical presentations in formats that work well with your group. As with a well-run ‘mega-code’, these are rehearsals for future events that may present suddenly. Readers must verify validity to their own practice.

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"The crowner hath sat on her and finds it Christian burial." [Hamlet]

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

All efforts to identify the decedent by hospital staff, law enforcement agencies or social service agencies should be well documented in the medical records. Based upon California Health and Safety Code 102850 and Government Code 27491. Based upon California Health and Safety Code 102850 and Government Code 27491.

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Preparing for what Nature can dish out

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Medical emergency personnel prepare well for their work: preplanning, checking equipment, reserve supplies, drills to varied scenarios. One of the most important steps to take is redundant documentation: identity; money, credit, finances, ownership, documents. Was the car actually packed for evacuation?

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Milestones of Modern Progress in Emergency Care

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

As Advanced Practice Nursing grew, at first in family practice, then into other specialties, emergency care became an area of interest. A natural one, and especially suited for increasing capability without regard to physician residency program output of graduates, and in less-well-served rural areas. EDNA->ENA. 10/20/2013.

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Early Modern Resuscitators

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Although told several times, the story of the development by Henning Ruben of the prototypical modern manual resuscitator, the self-refilling bag with unidirectional non-rebreathing valves which now dominate the world of resuscitation, is still not well-known. Documents improvements in BVMs previously investigated and found deficient in FIO2.

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Ballistic Follies

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

It is critically important to document the physical findings in a plain-seeing, plain-speaking, non-judgmental manner that will not color or taint future investigations. Accurate time entries are important to document. If you think your patient is the perpetrator, he may well be an innocent, or even an off-duty or undercover officer.