What Certifications are Needed To Be an Emergency Room Nurse? Many pre-med students wonder what certifications are needed to be an Emergency Room Nurse. Fortunately‚ there are very specific sources that provide the necessary certifications. What is Emergency Nursing? Emergency Nursing is a broad health care specialization that encompasses all aspects of emergency medical care. Emergency nurses treat patient experiencing injuries or trauma. They must immediately stabilize patients‚ minimize pain‚
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Communication is a crucial component for many professions in the workforce‚ but in the case of the medical profession‚ it is even more significant. Common medical emergencies are often reversible and treatable if the patient is given the correct treatment. "Also‚ in many visits to the ER‚ time is of the essence and being refused immediate treatment can be life-threatening (Woloch)". The most common mistakes that take place in the ER are the miscommunication with patients‚ misinterpretation of information
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Carmen Marin Dr. S. Shipley English 1A April 3‚ 2011 Emergency Room In order to evaluate the quality of emergency room care‚ it is essential to understand and define the standards that define high-quality care. My standards for high-quality Emergency Room care include the following: 1) it maintains life. 2) It provides rapid attention to injuries in order to prevent impairment. 3) It is professional and focused on providing maximized attention to the patients’ needs. 4) It includes rapid
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it didn’t and instead of that‚ she become even more ill. Her husband become even more worried and without her agreement‚ took her to the hospital to check what’s wrong with her. When they arrived to the hospital‚ they immediately put her in the emergency room. After the examination the doctor told the husband that she got a serious infection and there’s nothing they could do because this infection went all over her body. Every day his wife was feeling weaker and weaker and the doctors tried to do their
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the double doors of the emergency room burst open. Pushed by several nurses‚ doctors‚ and other medical staff‚ a lone hospital stretcher with a bloody‚ wounded patient flies through the medical center towards the doors to the operating room. This image is what generally comes to mind when you think about an emergency room. Many people believe that the hospital’s emergency room is a dark and scary place. While this is true‚ the common misconception is that the emergency room is a place clear of humor
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Hospital Emergency Room Overload As the name implies‚ the purpose of hospital emergency rooms is to provide quick and expert medical treatment for urgent and life threatening medical problems. The truth of the matter is that patients seek the ER for a variety of illnesses and injuries. They can range from catastrophic to as minor as a young child running his/her first fever. The downfall to this is that those patients who are truly not suffering from life threatening situations are taking
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Come inside‚ come inside‚ so we thought we were in trouble. So‚ we run inside and we see my brother’s face and it was (descriptive word). We had to go straight to the emergency room. We rushed straight into the car and my mom was driving as fast as she could. All my brother kept saying was his arm hurt. Once we got to the emergency room they rushed my brother in. I still
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An ethical dilemma most people think of is ones code status. In my recent experience working in the emergency department‚ I have participated in resuscitating many elderly individuals. Even when their code status says full code‚ their power of attorney is telling us to perform all efforts to save the individual. It puts the physician and staff in a sticky situation in which we have seconds to decide. In all circumstances I have been involved in‚ the physician orders to resuscitate the patient
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Running head: LADDER OF INFERANCE 1 Susan Valliere Ladder of Inference‚ a Case Study Southern New Hampshire University LADDER OF INFERANCE 2 Abstract The case study given is a classic case where a patient’s belief‚ (real‚ false interpretation of facts) influences their behavior and is a barrier to receiving quality and/or appropriate care. The ladder of influence and its steps will show how ones “beliefs‚ accurate or
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am an emergency room nurse‚ and I can relate to the situation that you wrote about. The scenario that you chose to write about was a great example of the multiple ways of knowing that a nurse can perform during a situation. As you stated in your post it is important to make the patient comfortable while taking care of them‚ especially in this situation. If the patient was to get anxious and nervous it could possibly make what was happening to him worse. I believe that in the emergency room we get
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