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Emergency Nurses Week 2017

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Emergency Nursing Week 2017 Throughout human existence, a need for 'emergency nursing' has always existed. Nor can any generally trained nurse deal with the spectrum of emergency care without specialized education and training. 1997) The Emergency Nursing FAQ and Emergency Nursing World !

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Interhospital Transfer Capabilities Still Pose Major Issues

ACEP Now

Two years ago, an ACEP Now article covered the issue of transfer challenges resulting from early pandemic operations. 1 As fresh challenges of the pandemic and hospital operations changed emergency medicine practice, one of the more challenging areas was the movement of admitted patients out of the first emergency department (ED).

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Having problems with your PAPR-work? (When an N95 mask simply won’t do … )

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

This is not a feasible practice in the Emergency Department which must deal immediately with an undifferentiated patient. It would be kept in an anteroom of an Isolation Room (the only one with a private bathroom for the patient) which had cabinetry and sink, and an electric outlet to operate the battery charger.

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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. No "practice procedures" should be done.

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Ballistic Follies

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Ballistic injuries in the emergency department. Emergency medicine practice, 13(12), 1-30. ET Hostile Fire Environments Murphy’s Law of Combat Operations [includes coarse military humor] Firearms in the Entertainment Industry International Movie Firearms Database Horman, GS. Gustafson, C. G., & Visintainer, C.

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We stand open and ready … (Whoever you are … )

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

An ambulance pulls up, in haste, to the Receiving door of the Emergency Department with a last squeal of the siren. September 2005) Terrorism and Other Public Health Emergencies Reference Guide for Media. [ Emergency Preparedness. 2008) Mumbai Combined Arms Operation November 26-28, 2008.

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Oxygen Powered Resuscitators

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

It wrongly frightened some medical personnel as it was operated by a 50 psi wall source or from a step-down regulator from a tank (some thought the patient received wall 50 psi or 1500 psig from the tank directly to the lung. Preoxygenation, reoxygenation, and delayed sequence intubation in the emergency department.