This disaster clinical day was a great experience for me. As a nursing student‚ I have no experience about a disaster event and what to expect as a nurse. From the lecture‚ I understood how to triage the victims and dividing them into color categories. Emergency or red tag patients are the one that has immediate threats to life such as airway obstruction or shock‚ and require immediately intervention. Yellow-tag patients have major injuries that need treatment but can wait for 30 minutes to 2 hours
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Maple Syrup Urine Disease Maple syrup urine disease or MSUD is a genetically inherited disease‚ characterized by a maple syrup odor found in the sweat‚ urine and earwax of affected individuals. This metabolic disorder was first documented in medical literature in 1954 by John Hans Menkes‚ a pediatric neurologist who would also discover Menkes Disease. People with this condition lack specific enzymes required to metabolize certain amino acids. It is also commonly known as BCKD deficiency‚ branched
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function. At the time‚ her family support included her husband‚ her parents who live close by and friends from her church. Nursing Roles in SM’s Care There were triage nurse who assessed her situation‚ took her vitals‚ they asked all of her symptoms and ask the doctors. On a subsequent visit‚ when the symptoms was still occurring‚ the triage nurses asked more probing questions to clarify the client’s problem. In this case‚ the nurse decided that she should wear a mask. Client SM had a friend‚ who is
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In regards to the fetal adrenal‚ I do suspect that this is hemorrhage but I would recommend a neonatal ultrasound after delivery to rule-out mass. We also discussed her BP’s. She was seen in triage on Friday and had a couple of elevated BP’s that returned to normal. Labs at that time were negative and she was told to follow-up today for labs as well. BP in the office today was 118/73 and she had only a trace of protein. I did obtain STAT labs
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strengths and weaknesses and to determine where changes can be made to benefit the organization (Roberts‚ 2008). By benchmarking‚ the hospital may be able to determine that other hospitals have completed registeration in the examination areas and moved triage to the waiting room and this decreased wait times or that providing a greeter to establish contact with every patient upon entering the emergency department and providing a sign with approximate wait times improved the patient’s level of satisfaction
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Waveform capnography to today’s paramedic is what it felt like with the invention of the washing machine becoming available to generations of people who grew up using a wash board. Now that people have a machine to do the work for them‚ they cannot imagine going back to hand washing. The same holds true for capnography. Now having real-time feedback of patient conditions‚ providers cannot conceive going back to the delayed readings of pulse oximetry. The hope for medical professionals is that “60
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Nursing Management: Emergency‚ Terrorism‚ and Disaster Nursing Key Points – Printable CARE OF EMERGENCY PATIENT * Triage refers to the process of rapidly determining the acuity of the patient’s problem. It works on the premise that patients who have a threat to life must be treated before other patients. * The Emergency Severity Index (ESI) is a five-level triage system that incorporates concepts of illness severity and resource utilization to determine who should be treated first.
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TEST QUESTIONS UNIT 1 chapters 1-4 1. Successful crisis work may be described as a. enhancing the crisis worker’s life. b. successfully resolving long-standing trauma. c. becoming multi-culturally aware. d. generating in the client a long-term resiliency to ward off future crisis. Answer: a 2. Of the following components of basic crisis theory‚ which does not apply? a. Basic crisis theory is equivalent to brief therapy. b. Crisis is a state where ordinary behaviors can’t overcome
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MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION AND THE AGING ADULT Acute Coronary syndrome (ACS) is an emergent situation characterized by an acute onset of myocardial ischemia that results in myocardial death (i.e.‚ MI) if definitive interventions do not occur promptly. (Although the terms coronary occlusion‚ heart attack‚ and myocardial infarction are used synonymously‚ the preferred term is myocardial infarction.) The spectrum of ACS includes unstable angina‚ NSTEMI‚ and ST-segment elevation of myocardial infarction
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surgery since millions of Americans visit an emergency room each year. The emergency department has several different areas including the triage‚ resuscitation‚ and pediatric area. Each is specialized for patients with particular of injuries or types of illnesses. This is how the emergency room works. When you arrive at the Emergency Department you stop at the triage which is the place where each patient’s condition is prioritized into three categories: immediately life threatening‚ urgent but not immediately
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