Icon hospital in Chicago • Experienced staff‚ low turnover rate • Nurses with master’s degree • Head nurses and assistant head nurses familiar with managerial roles • Management working on improving Emergency Department (ED) flow • People seek medical care at ED Weaknesses • Emergency Department (ED) used as primary care by local residents • ED transfers to clinical units taking more than 15 hours • Patients lying on stretchers for long periods of time • Long ED waits • Staff nurses
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How Do You Become an Emergency Room Nurse? When someone wants to become an emergency room nurse‚ they often do so because they want to help patients and save lives. Emergency room nurses are integral members of important medical teams who assist patients experiencing traumatic injuries and sudden illnesses. These nurses may work in fast-paced and stressful environments‚ but they have one of the most rewarding careers available in the medical field. Get a Formal Education There are different academic
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Emergency Analysis The book by Denis Johnson entitled Jesus’ Son follows a drug addicted narrator through a series of short stories. Over the course of the book‚ many characters come and go‚ and few other than the narrator are constantly in it. Some of these secondary characters are also drug users‚ while others are morally questionable in different ways. One of the more interesting secondary characters appears in the story Emergency‚ Georgie. Georgie is the hospital orderly who happens to steal
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Group Paper Analysis: Group #3 The Effects of Culture in Patient-Provider Interaction and Means for Dealing With It Shawn Burke‚ Shin-Hyung Lee‚ Siamak Mahdavi‚ Thuan Nguyen‚ Brittany Oswald‚ Teasha Walters As a culturally diverse country discrepancies in health care have been documented and continue to serve as a threat to satisfactory patient care. Data has shown that minority groups suffer more greatly from cardiovascular disease‚ diabetes‚ and cancer‚ amid other ailments. In 1998
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Community Emergency Preparedness and Response Paper Lorraine Gambino NUR 408 June 25‚ 2013 Beth Edwards Community Emergency Preparedness and Response Paper Natural disasters are a part of life and emergency situation occur more frequently than most people believe. After a disaster‚ how well a community can recover will greatly depend on how well they have been prepared in advance. Preemptive organization of resources and the responsiveness to emergencies can mean the difference between a community’s
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Emergency Department Northeastern Intermediate Clinical Practice 04/23/2013 Emergency Department Experience I started my day in the emergency department (ED) by meeting the staff. One charge registered nurse (RN)‚ five staff RN’s‚ four paramedics‚ one patient care technician‚ and one doctor. Jennifer Thomas was also in the ED today and informed me that to get the best experience I should invite myself into the rooms as the patients arrive. Most Common Medical Diagnosis The first patient
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healthcare providers. The utilization of informatics has become the main stream approach for nursing care today. This fifth core competency is directly intertwined with the four previous competencies that have been outlined by the IOM. Patient centered care is the first of the core competencies. Utilizing informatics can assist nurses in providing patient centered care by decreasing the amount of time spent on documentation and searching for data. For example‚ by having an electronic medical record
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Ashley Peterson‚ 9-27-11 T‚ TH 9:30-10:20 Essay 2 What’s Your Plan B? In the United States‚ half of all pregnancies are unplanned. This is where emergency contraceptives come into play. Approved by the Food and Drug Administration‚ the Plan B pill is used as a backup plan after unprotected sex or birth control failure. According to the Plan B One-Step website‚ taking the pill in the first 72 hours this pill in 89 percent effective on preventing the fertilization of an egg. However‚ taking Plan
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Monitoring special calls (1) Problem calls (e.g.‚ unidentified caller‚ angry patient‚ family member) (2) Emergency calls 7. Fundamental writing skills a. Sentence structure b. Grammar c. Punctuation I. A–F General A. Medical terminology 1. Word building and definitions a. Basic structure (1) Roots or stems (2) Prefixes (3) Suffixes (4) Abbreviations b. Surgical procedures c. Diagnostic procedures d. Medical specialties 2. Uses of terminology a. Spelling b. Selection and use (e.g.‚ data entry‚ reports
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Throughout history‚ America has been fighting against drug and alcohol abuse in teens and adults. Many ways companies and anti drug groups try to prevent drug and alcohol abuse is through education in school systems and out of school systems. They teach young students about drugs and alcohol before they risk being around them‚ and they teach older students about drugs while they are around in their daily lives. Are these education programs really necessary? That’s the question many people ask‚ and
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