emergency department
Astute assessment prevents paralysis
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.
Be prepared for anything
Care, not chaos
A new document created by ANA and other groups delineates emergency care principles for psychiatric patients.
Drifting in the sea of an emergency department
ED nurses continue to be victims of workplace violence according to new report
Education improves ED care of children with behavioral special needs
Emergency nursing: A specialty unlike any other
The president of the Emergency Nurses Association tells why she’s proud to be an emergency nurse.
Failure is not an option…or is it?
First-day jitters
Harold & Bill: An enduring portrait of another era
Helping hands of nurses
How do you look?
Long ED wait linked to more adverse outcomes
My First Day in the ED
Nearly half of U.S. EDs overcrowded
Putting an end to patient overcrowding
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.
Reducing ambulance diversions without compromising care
How one community hospital dealt with the twin problems of a saturated emergency department and ambulance diversions.
Researchers Explore Ways to Curb ED Violence
Experts say registered nurses who work in hospital emergency departments are at greater risk of violence from patients than nurses in other specialties.
So you want to be an emergency nurse?
How to get going in this exciting specialty.
Sometimes healing requires a “miracle”
Study: ED charges vary widely
Study: Functional problems common in ED elderly
Taking the ICU to the Patient
How one rapid response team prevents cardiac arrest and provides other life-saving benefits outside the ICU.
The down and dirty of triage acuity scales
The freeing force of laughter
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.
The thin white line: Are we doing enough to prevent violence against nurses?
Turning the tide in a hypertensive emergency
When a patient’s blood pressure goes stratospheric, the first priority is to check for signs of organ damage.