ED Position Statement
PR Assignment 7
John Lattimore
Position Statement
Preventable accidents fill up a vast majority of space of the Emergency Department (ED) in hospitals every day. Due to that fact, the National Association of Trauma Specialists (NATS) is in the process of forming an educational program for the public about home and driving safety.i This program will help alleviate a lot of the stress and problems of having an overcrowded ED. The ED is meant for critical and urgent situations such as accidents and conditions that require immediate attention and cannot wait to be seen by a primary care physician during business hours that day or the next.
Over 2,000 children die every single day due to accidental injuries ranging from falls, burns, car crashes, poisoning, and drowning ii Those accidents are not included with the thousands of children that are seen by emergency physicians and are saved from that horrible fate. Accidents happen, and that is just a fact of life. No parent can effectively supervise their child all 24 hours of all 365 days of the year. A mom leaves the room to check on something leaving the stove on and a young girl knocks a pot of boiling water off the eye resulting in severe burns. This is an actual emergency and the …show more content…
A program that teaches people to live safer lives and encourages regular visits to a primary care physician would reduce the number of accidents that are reported to the ED.iii Preventable accidents are not the only issue clogging up the ED every day and night. The poor and uninsured making frequent visits for primary care needs are another problem that NATS recognizes and believes a program like this could help
John Lattimore
Position Statement
Preventable accidents fill up a vast majority of space of the Emergency Department (ED) in hospitals every day. Due to that fact, the National Association of Trauma Specialists (NATS) is in the process of forming an educational program for the public about home and driving safety.i This program will help alleviate a lot of the stress and problems of having an overcrowded ED. The ED is meant for critical and urgent situations such as accidents and conditions that require immediate attention and cannot wait to be seen by a primary care physician during business hours that day or the next.
Over 2,000 children die every single day due to accidental injuries ranging from falls, burns, car crashes, poisoning, and drowning ii Those accidents are not included with the thousands of children that are seen by emergency physicians and are saved from that horrible fate. Accidents happen, and that is just a fact of life. No parent can effectively supervise their child all 24 hours of all 365 days of the year. A mom leaves the room to check on something leaving the stove on and a young girl knocks a pot of boiling water off the eye resulting in severe burns. This is an actual emergency and the …show more content…
A program that teaches people to live safer lives and encourages regular visits to a primary care physician would reduce the number of accidents that are reported to the ED.iii Preventable accidents are not the only issue clogging up the ED every day and night. The poor and uninsured making frequent visits for primary care needs are another problem that NATS recognizes and believes a program like this could help