ED Nursing Archives – June 1, 2007
June 1, 2007
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Rural ED nurses treat 14 gunshot victims in one day: Teamwork is key
A young man and woman from Virginia Polytechnic Institute arriving about 8 a.m. on April 16 with gunshot wounds came as quite a shock to ED nurses at Montgomery Regional Hospital, a 146-bed facility in rural Blacksburg, VA. -
ED shares lessons learned for multiple trauma cases
Every ED nurse at Montgomery Regional Hospital in Blacksburg, VA, recently attended the Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC) offered by the Emergency Nurses Association. The nurses never dreamed they soon would be relying on this training to care for 14 gunshot wound victims in a single day. -
Be ready for gunshot wounds in your ED
Five or six gunshot wounds in one night. "Drive-bys" in which a person's body is dumped by the ED entrance. These are not unusual occurrences for ED nurses at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, as the only Level 1 Trauma Center in the area, says Julie McInnis, RN, BSN, ED nurse. -
Pediatric Corner: Are you treating pain adequately for procedures?
If a child was undergoing an intravenous (IV) catheter placement, would you offer anything to relieve the pain? The answer for many ED nurses would be "no," according to a new study. -
Study: It can be dangerous to guess a patient's weight
If you have estimated the weight of an adult patient recently, your guess was probably not accurate, says a new study. ED nurses and physicians estimated weights of 241 patients, and they were within 5% of the patient's true weight only 33% of the time, researchers found. -
Patients with serious head injuries on the rise in EDs
ED nurses at Denver's University of Colorado Hospital knew the following from the emergency medical services (EMS) call: The 70-year-old woman had fallen that day from a standing position and was alert and oriented when paramedics arrived at her home. -
Here are interventions for common ED drug overdoses
A woman dies of respiratory arrest in the back of a car on her way to the ED not due to acute asthma exacerbation, congestive heart failure, or pulmonary embolism, but from abuse of pain medications.