ED Nursing Archives – April 1, 2004
April 1, 2004
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Is your care of children with fever outdated? Don’t miss warning signs
An infant with a moderate fever dies of septic shock after being left in the waiting room for hours. Could this unthinkable scenario happen at your ED? -
Pediatric Corner: Don’t get a sick child’s temperature wrong
Its a task you may perform several times in a single day, but if you dont take a childs temperature correctly, the results can be devastating. -
Want to boost morale? Try creative scheduling
Boosting morale. It sounds easy enough, but good solutions for this problem that plagues many EDs are tough to find. -
Pick the right five-level triage system: Here’s how
Have you been wondering when your ED will switch to a five-level triage scale? Theres no time like the present, urges Paula Tanabe, PhD, RN, co-chair of the Des Plaines, IL-based Emergency Nurses Association task force on five-level triage formed jointly in 2003 with the Dallas-based American College of Emergency Physicians. -
Journal Reviews
The emergency severity index (version 3) five-level triage system scores predict ED resource consumption; Outcome of patients with a final diagnosis of chest pain of undetermined origin admitted under the suspicion of acute coronary syndrome: A report from the Rochester epidemiology project; Utilization of the emergency department after self-inflicted injury. -
Are you giving poor care to migraine patients?
Over a two-year period, a 39-year-old woman came to Richmond-based Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Centers ED more than 100 times for treatment of migraines, and each time she insisted that specific narcotics be given, reports Denise Sullivan-Wade, BSN, RN, the EDs case manager. -
Tip of the Month: Give infectious patients a respiratory packet
Its a year-round problem in every ED: How to limit exposure of coughing, sneezing, or sniffling patients.