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It’s EMERGENCY Nurse to you!

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

It ' s EMERGENCY Nurse to you! In hospitals, the work role or function of nurses and other staff is usually (and traditionally) defined by place, e.g. : O.R.; Post-Anesthesia Care Unit; Delivery Room; Medical-Surgical Ward Nurse. Nurses'; L&D Nurses, Pediatric Nurses.

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

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Act V, scene I [Text from Folger Shakespeare Library] [Audio recording of Dramatic Reading; Chapter Vox] [Video recording of Act V, scene1] Most deaths that are brought to, or occur in, an emergency department will require, at least, discussion with the local Coroner or Medical Examiner. Department of the Medical Examiner-Coroner.

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Ballistic Follies

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

In short, describe the simple appearance of wounds and findings, and the body’s response, without any forensic conclusions. Ballistic injuries in the emergency department. Emergency medicine practice, 13(12), 1-30. Avoid using wounding holes in clothing or tissue as the start of cutting with shears or incising tissue.