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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!

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"To every thing there is a season. "

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Consider the traumas and medical emergencies that have a seasonal prominence in your locality, then prepare topical presentations in formats that work well with your group. As with a well-run ‘mega-code’, these are rehearsals for future events that may present suddenly. Readers must verify validity to their own practice.

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The Dunning-Kruger Effect

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

An example would be the recent ACLS graduate who tells the airway manager, who is ventilating the patient well without a leak, that he/she is holding the mask “upside-down”. This deliberate choice is known to the expert, but not well-published in basic literature. —David Dunning ” (as cited in Wikipedia article, below).

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Olympic Fever

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

The many athletes are in their prime, and often well-acquainted with strain, injury, acute care, and rehabilitation. Translators are available for this polyglottal population. So, I offer applause and best wishes to those who represent us in meeting the health challenges of such a large enterprise honoring sport and peace. "Citius,

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

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

If doing what was called "the one-man-band resurrection shuffle" [single person CPR in the back of a moving ambulance], this worked very well, as the bag would stay hanging there on the patient's face. How useful these would have been to let us know how well the patient was oxygenating and ventilating!

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Troubleshooting Foley Caths and Suprapubic Caths

Taming the SRU

7) While standard technique for either male or female foley placement is well-known and straightforward, there are several measures that can be taken to ensure the highest likelihood of first-pass success. The western journal of emergency medicine. Journal of emergency nursing. 2012;13(6):472-478. 2011.11.6810.

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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.