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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

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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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The Nexus of Violence, Law Enforcement, and Nursing

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Yet, it must be noted that Nurses are compelled to be in the middle. Both occupations, it must be said, are creatures of law whose licensed/appointed employment is created, regulated, and disciplined by operation of law; and those with high professional tenets swear an oath to perform at awesome ethical levels. September 2, 2017.

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Early Modern Resuscitators

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Review of the Wellcome Library movies on YouTube (1945) [ links below in references ] is instructive as to resuscitative methods of the 1930s and 1940s: Manual methods; gas bag or bellows operated by hand or machine; an anesthesia gas machine; or iron lung. Evaluation: Manually Operated Resuscitators (1971) Emergency Care Research Institute.

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Organizing First Aid Services for Public Events

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If it is a large public event, with foreseeable risks, and admission is charged of other value exchanged, then it may be wise to contract for needed services from licensed and insured providers: Venue operators, Security firm; event medical crews or EMS stand-by providers; to provide some shielding to your group as to liability.

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

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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.

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Ten Commandments for Emergency Professionals; a compendium

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10 Commandments of Risk Management (Camp Operations) THE "20 Commandments" of EMTALA Ten Commandments For Malpractice Depositions The Top Ten Ways to Ensure Frustration, Miscommunication, and Poor Patient Care the Next Time You Provide (or Request) a Consult [N.B. Memon, A., & Kaliff, J.