What seems like a simple pulled muscle to a shipping clerk turns out to be cauda equina syndrome, a potentially paralyzing injury that warrants immediate surgery.
A new document created by ANA and other groups delineates emergency care principles for psychiatric patients.
The president of the Emergency Nurses Association tells why she’s proud to be an emergency nurse.
As nursing shortages around the United States continue to grow, including in emergency departments (EDs), hospital systems seek innovative solutions. Some systems have resorted to paying high salaries for travel nurses or increasing patient–nurse ratios to maximize staffing matrixes. In North Carolina, a free-standing ED has hired paramedics to help supplement its nursing staff and alleviate some of the pressure.
Serious patient-flow problems call for more than just quick fixes. In some facilities, the culture must be transformed before patient bottlenecks can be banished. Read about one hospital’s system-wide cure for its throughput blues.
When reflecting on the needs of patients using ambulatory care services, it doesn’t take long to realize that their requirements frequently exceed what these settings can offer, which can lead to referrals to an emergency department (ED) for evaluation.
How one community hospital dealt with the twin problems of a saturated emergency department and ambulance diversions.
Experts say registered nurses who work in hospital emergency departments are at greater risk of violence from patients than nurses in other specialties.
How to get going in this exciting specialty.
How one rapid response team prevents cardiac arrest and provides other life-saving benefits outside the ICU.
By reciting wacky dialogue from a scene in a Monty Python movie, Mary Delisle, RN, interrupted the negative thought patterns of a patient mired in dread and dispair.
When a patient’s blood pressure goes stratospheric, the first priority is to check for signs of organ damage.
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