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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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Boating trauma

EM SIM Cases

JoAnne is a nurse (background in emergency nursing) and one of the Sim Knowledge Coordinators based at the Pritchard Simulation Centre in Kelowna, BC. JoAnne has her master of nursing degree and nurse practitioner designation and is passionate about all things sim! This case comes from JoAnne Slinn.

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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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Early Modern Resuscitators

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

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

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

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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The Nexus of Violence, Law Enforcement, and Nursing

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

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

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

All of The Editors, The Publisher, and Staff of Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal wish you a very happy time of thanksgiving and holiday celebration. Sincerely, Tom Trimble, RN All opinions are solely those of the author. Readers must verify validity to their own practice.