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Emergency Nurses Week 2017

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

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

Transferring patients from one ED to another hospital is an established part of emergency medicine practice. Patients who need inpatient services do not match the index hospitals’ capabilities, or the patient requests such a transfer, or the hospital has no available inpatient space. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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ACEP4U: Defending YOU by Demanding an End to the Boarding Crisis

ACEP Now

ACEP prioritized attendance of hospital groups at this boarding summit so they could hear firsthand the impact that boarding is having on patients, physicians, and other health care workers, and also answer to this growing crisis. Representatives from both groups attended.

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2023 ACEP Elections Preview: Meet the President-Elect and Council Officer Candidates

ACEP Now

As your national ACEP liaison to the American Academy of Emergency Nurse Practitioners (AAENP), I have the incredible honor, privilege, and responsibility to be your “voice” during AAENP Board of Director meetings. Did I bold type “physician-led” in that last sentence? Another point purposefully made.

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SGEM#286: Behind the Mask – Does it need to be an N95 mask?

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Over the past seventeen years he has practiced as a rural emergency and family physician and Clinical Chief of Emergency at Carbonear Hospital. Paul Norman is a registered nurse working as a frontline emergency nurse in Eastern Health, Newfoundland, Canada.

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The Nexus of Violence, Law Enforcement, and Nursing

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

In the Illinois case, jail guards responsible for their inmate in a hospital were seemingly inattentive and derelict in their duties, resulting in the prisoner getting loose, stealing the deputy's gun, taking hostages, beatting and raping one nurse until the ordeal was ended by SWAT shooting him and wounding the nurse.

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??I would have been thankful for, in days of yore …

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Once, while taking a patient to the hospital, Dispatch radioed us to call ASAP (radio rules didn't allow explanation). All of The Editors, The Publisher, and Staff of Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal wish you a very happy time of thanksgiving and holiday celebration. Readers must verify validity to their own practice.