Recent Posts Tagged With 'emergency'

• Distracting a screaming toddler

  Posted on Thursday July 2nd, 2009 at 08:15 in child, toddler, emergency, distraction, injury, screaming, injured, distracting, laceration, suturing, emergency and triage, distraction therapy

  credit: jenn_jenn When I first started nursing in an emergency department I was amazed at how we treated injured toddlers. I’m being a bit liberal with my use of the word ‘toddlers’ here, basically I mean any child between the ages ...

• Help! I’ve been ramped!

  Posted on Wednesday June 24th, 2009 at 09:57 in hospital, emergency, ambulance, ambulances, ramping, ramped, qas, emergency and triage

  credit: martinhoward I had something rather interesting happen to me this week - I was ramped! While ramping is not an uncommon process every day in Australia, it is one that usually annoys / frustrates and infuriates ambulance staff more than anyone...

• 10 surreal minutes - did that just happen?

  Posted on Thursday June 11th, 2009 at 06:16 in nurse, spew, emergency, vomit, hyperemesis, emergency and triage, power spew

  credit: la_cola_de_mi_perro So today using my powers of amazing dodge-ability, I managed (by mere milliseconds) to get out of the path of a power-vomit. Not just any power vomit, this was the kind experienced only by those who have joined the ranks ...

• Now that I’m here, when can I leave?

  Posted on Monday October 27th, 2008 at 09:49 in patient, wait, hospital, impatient, emergency, tests, ama, leave, irritated, general nursing stuff, against advice

  There’s a certain group of patients that come to emergency, mostly vague historians with vague complaints, who don’t want to wait around to see any kind of resolution to their presenting complaint. credit: adjustafresh Many of these peopl...

• Watching a patient die

  Posted on Friday October 24th, 2008 at 02:44 in death, stroke, emergency, die, passed away, cardiac arrest, haemorrhage, respiratory arrest, emergency and triage, intracerebral haemorrhage

  credit: roujo Today I watched a man die. A few of us stood around as his heart stopped beating, and did nothing about it. It was kind of surreal, but the mood in the room was quite calm - there was no frenzy of activity with buzzers going off and p...

• Is it really an emergency?

  Posted on Monday October 20th, 2008 at 04:25 in gp, emergency, emergency room, non-emergency, emergency department, frivolous, emergency and triage, not an emergency

  photo credit: viva la vibs There has been a lot written on emergency departments and the frequency of patients who attend for frivolous and stupid complaints. Certainly this has become a part of my day to day life, and there have been many times whe...

• Parents and newborns

  Posted on Saturday October 11th, 2008 at 07:46 in newborn, emergency, unwell, triage

  I’m a parent, I’ve been one a couple times over now!  And, I can appreciate it’s not always easy being a parent. credit: ElvisHuang Some parents bring their kids into emergency for such minor reasons though, its hard not to raise ...

• Acopia

  Posted on Thursday October 9th, 2008 at 09:05 in Services, care, emergency, elderly, aged, general nursing stuff, acopia

  One thing that gets me about many presentations to hospitals is that they involved the dreaded ‘acopia’ credit: Jacob Rickard Not sure what acopia means? From Wiki: “Acopia means “inability to cope” and is often used a...