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A 74-year-old woman presents with slight fever, weakness and confusion. Would you suspect septicemia?
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If a child comes to your ED in severe pain but without a life-threatening injury or illness, would that child have to wait for hours before receiving pain medications?
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Emergency nurses need to improve documentation of female assault and maltreatment in ED records, says this study from the Michigan Department of Community Health in Lansing.
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Using a pneumatic tube delivery system for transporting blood samples from the ED to the laboratory can reduce turnaround times significantly, says a recently published study.
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If you tell an ED physician that a patient's condition changed for the worse and the patient later sues, can you prove what you said?
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ED nurses at University of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City created a fanny pack to use for trauma cases, which puts commonly used drugs at nurses' fingertips. "The trauma pack contains many incidentals that are needed to work a trauma patient," says Alison Wright, RN, BSN, nurse educator for the ED. "It is very helpful because frequently we have five minutes or less to prepare for a patient."
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In their zeal to protect research participants from undue risk, are IRBs actually making them more vulnerable, by causing frustrated researchers to circumvent the IRB system?
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As IRBs work to ensure that women are fairly represented in clinical research, results from a new survey provide a disquieting message: More older women are uninterested in research and don't believe in participating.
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IRBs and research organizations continue to iron out privacy policies and details 10 years after a law was passed to require health care organizations to adhere to federal privacy rules under the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996.
