Emergency department

medical scribe in the Emergency Department at St. Agnes Hospital, I constantly work in a fast paced environment and learn something new everyday. Some days are good days. Some days go badly. My third day of training as a medical scribe was a bad day. Eight hours into my shift alongside my assigned physician, Dr. David Hale, we had already seen a myriad of symptoms and ailments from nearly twenty patients. Suddenly, an urgent overhead page called out, “Code Heart Emergency Department Room 5.” Dr. Hale

One dominant agency is the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) of the United States Department of Homeland Security. FEMA was created on 1979 by the late President Jimmy Carter that signed the executive order to support the citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation, people work together to build, sustain and improve our capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from and mitigate all hazards. Another program called National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program

overcrowding affects the viability of emergency departments across this county (Derlet, 2002). Emergency department overcrowding refers to an excess of patients in the treatment areas exceeding ED capacity. According to the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), over one half of all sentinel event cases of morbidity and mortality resulting from delays in treatment occur in hospital emergency departments. Emergency department overcrowding has been cited as a contributing

Introduction Title: Relationship between occupational violence, burnout and intention to leave in emergency department nurses in Western Australia The motivation for this research direction and area of investigation stemmed from my personal experiences as a final year nursing student in a busy emergency department in a metropolitan hospital in Western Australia. Anecdotally and personal observation-wise, the level of stress, disillusionment and discontentment amongst the staff in a busy and demanding

Stress, Burnout, and Compassion Fatigue in the Emergency Department Background Nursing is a field that many enter with the intention of helping and providing care to those with mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual needs (Lombardo & Eyre, 2011). Many consider nursing as their calling; yet have not prepared themselves for the emotional and physical implications that come from having interpersonal relationships with families and patients. As nurses care for the ill, traumatized, and vulnerable

Emergency Department boarding of psychiatric patients continues to be a major problem for hospitals. Due to the lack of inpatient psych beds, interventions and alternatives have been installed by affected hospitals to alleviate crowding. Also, in-state level policies and increase funding for mental health to ease this problem is also in effect. Not only that these systems in place ease the stay of mentally-ill patients, but also the remaining of its population. Since wait times for psychiatric

Aiding Throughput by Adding Advanced Practice Providers to Saint Joseph’s Emergency Department Cavan Quam California State University, Stanislaus Introduction Emergency departments (EDs) across the country are inundated with too many patients based upon staffing and resources (Sun et al., 2013). This is a problem, as overcrowding in the ED has been shown to increase the likelihood of multiple negative outcomes. Patients who go to overcrowded EDs experience a higher likelihood of mortality, have

While working in the emergency department for my clinical this week I could see the staff members that help in the emergency department. There are RNs, EMTs that have different certifications like BLS or ALS, a nurse practitioner, and doctors. In the emergency department, they have staff members from different parts of the hospital to assess the patients. Radiology comes down to get X-rays on the patients for a closer look at their heart. The patients who come into the ER with shortness of air, chest

In a hospital, the Emergency Department is the most crucial area (Girija & Bhat, 2013). With many challenges, the Emergency Department must operate efficiently in an effort to deliver quality care in a timely manner while meeting the patient demand based on volume size (Richard & Jarvis, 2016). If there is an unbalanced match with the patient demand with the Emergency Department capacity and staffing to deliver care within a timely manner, it can reflect on the patient flow and can create crowding

article it talked about how to become an emergency nurse. the article talks about what roles emergency department nurses have and the different things that the nurses may experience. Also,the article talked about the amount of responsibility and expectations that are piled on the emergency department nurses on a daily basis. The medical professionals attending the patients have to chose the difference between life and death. As an emergency department nurse you have the iron in the fire to work