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Immersing new emergency room nurses
Purpose/Objectives: A 92-bed Emergency Center is hiring Graduate Nurses (GNs) at a much higher rate than historically. The GNs have attended and finished nursing school during the COVID-19 pandemic and have expressed concern with not feeling prepared and able to care for the specialized population …
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Nurse caring behaviors as perceived by the emergency room nurse and the emergency room patient: A comparative study
The purpose of this study was to determine what emergency room nurses (n = 60) and emergency room patients (n = 60) perceived as caring behaviors, as measured by the Caring Behaviors Assessment (CBA) tool. Unlike other studies the emergency room nurse ranked technical skills, "Know how to give …
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Reducing blood culture contamination in the emergency room
… When blood culture contamination in emergency departments is above 3%, it is associated with adverse patient outcomes, inappropriate antibiotic use, and increased hospital costs. In a large, Midwestern, level I trauma hospital, there is a blood culture contamination (BCC) rate of …
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Patient Assistance for Virtual Emergency Room Follow Up (PAVER)
Purpose: Patients returning to the emergency room within 30 days of a previous visit pose a transitions of care issue for hospitals; with a reported 19.9% of initial ER visits resulting in a revisit. The cost of a revisit has been reported to be 118% the cost of the initial visit and 26% of ED …
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Increasing Compliance of Bar Code Medication Administration in the Emergency Room
… the hospital setting with concentration in the emergency room (ER). Bar-code medication administration (BCMA) has proven to be effective on the in-patient units in the hospitals researched and visited as part of this project, but the issue still remains that the emergency rooms exhibit a …
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Nonemergency visits to the emergency room : revelations from the COVID era.
Emergency rooms ("ERs") in the United States ("US") must see all patients regardless of their ability to pay. Many uninsured patients that cannot pay for healthcare treatments tend to use ERs for primary care. This contributes to excessive healthcare costs in the US, financial challenges for …
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Burnout and Job stress in Emergency room nurses caring for Pediatric Patients
본 연구는 소아환자를 돌보는 응급실 간호사의 직무스트레스와 소진을 파악하고, 이들 간의 관계를 확인하여 소아환자를 돌보는 응급실 간호사의 직무스트레스와 소진을 감소시킬 수 있는 근무환경 조성을 위한 기초자료를 제공하고자 시도된 서술적 상관관계 연구이다. 1. 대상자의 직무스트레스 정도는 5점 만점에 평균 3.60점(±0.55)으로 나타났으며, 영역별로는 ‘보호자와 환자 관련 사항’이 4.05(±0.72)으로 가장 높았으며, ‘부적절한 물리적 환경’이 3.37점(±0.74)으로 가장 낮게 나타났다. 2. 대상자의 소진 정도는 5점 …
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The Relationships between Ethical Dilemma and Job Satisfaction of Emergency Room Nurses
본 연구는 응급실 간호사의 윤리적 딜레마정도와 직무만족도의 관계를 파악하여 윤리적 딜레마를 해결하여, 직무만족도를 높이고 간호 실무를 수행하는데 기초자료를 제공하고자 하는 상관관계 연구이다. 이를 위해 2011년 9월 20부터 9월 30일까지 경기도 일대 4개의 병원 응급실에 근무하는 간호사 150명을 대상으로 연구하였다. 연구 도구는 한성숙(1992)이 개발한 간호사의 윤리적 딜레마 측정도구를 양야기(2003)가 수정 보완한 도구와 Slavitt 등(1978)이 개발한 직무만족도 측정도구를 양야기(2003)가 번안하여 수정 …
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Relationship between primary care access through free clinics and emergency room usage
… to care. The safety net system includes hospital emergency departments, federally qualified health centers, and community clinics. With the costs of health care rising, ways to utilize and maximize the effectiveness of safety net providers is critical. One way to conserve costs involves preventing …
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perception and performance of emergency room nurse's protecting behavior for the patient privacy
While ER nurses’ behavior, recognition, and practice in protecting patient privacy is important, leakage of private information may substantially threaten the very notion of the patient’s freedom. In other words, along with medical care, patient management including protecting individual privacy …
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Development Of The Acute Decompensated Heart Failure Risk Model For Emergency Room Resident Training
… Heart Failure Risk Model can be developed for Emergency Room Resident Training within the context of evidence-based medicine.</p> <p>The pedagogical approach in medical education where instruction is provided by the experienced physician to the novice, namely the medical resident, is in …
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The Impact of Increased Number of Acute Care Beds to Reduce Emergency Room Wait Time
Reducing ED wait times is a top health care priority for the Ontario government and hospitals in Ontario are incentivised to meet provincial ED wait time targets. In this study, we considered the costs and benefits associated with increasing the number of acute-care beds to reduce the time an …
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Anxiety and Agitation in Adult Patients Admitted to an Emergency Room during the COVID-19 Pandemic
<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>The purpose of this retrospective correlational study was to identify the relationship between COVID-19 status and the prevalence of anxiety-agitation with select sociodemographic and clinical characteristics in adults admitted to the ED during the pandemic (03/01/2020 …
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A Study on Perception of Role and System of Certified Emergency Nurse in conjunction with Emergency Room Nurse
본 연구는 실제 임상에서 응급전문간호사 제도와 직무기술서(안)에 대한 인식을 조사함으로써 향후 응급전문간호사의 역할 정립을 제안하기 위한 서술적 조사 연구로 대상자는 경기도 내 1개 권역응급의료센터, 4개 지역응급의료센터, 1개 지역응급의료기관에서 근무하는 응급실 간호사 114명이다. 연구 도구는 2005년 한국간호평가원에서 제시한 응급전문간호사의 직무 기술서와 여러 사전 연구에서 사용된 응급전문간호사 역할 조사도구를 연구자가 수정․보완한 것으로 응급전문간호사 제도에 관한 인식부분과 응급전문간호사 역할에 관한 인식부분으로 이루어져 …
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Can the environmental protection agency's air quality index (AQI) be used to predict pediatric emergency room admissions for asthma?
In 2000, the EPA implemented a color-coded system for easier understanding by the general public to be forewarned of unhealthy air quality days. This study reviewed daily ER admissions at an urban pediatric hospital in Dallas, Texas for the months of May through September 2000, in an effort to …
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Reducing The Emergency Room Revolving Door Syndrome For The Poor, Uninsured And Chronically Ill Patient: Pilot Recommendations From A Process Improvement Evaluation
… a primary care clinic and 15 percent of their emergency department (ED) visits were considered avoidable in fiscal year 2015-2016. OJECTIVE: In light of these findings, the MHLA enrollment pathway was evaluated at select agencies for the delineation of pilot improvement models. Design, Settings …
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The Effects of an Educational Program on Recognition of Atypical Signs and Symptoms of Acute Coronary Syndrome in Women in the Emergency Room
… to educate the providers in a rural hospital's emergency department on the atypical signs and symptoms of acute coronary syndrome in women that present to the ED to facilitate emergent treatment. The objectives of the educational program were to increase provider knowledge about the atypical …
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Factors associated with increased suicidal intent among deliberate self-harm patients treated in the emergency room of an urban hospital in South Africa
… patients who presented for treatment in the emergency room of an urban hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. Setting: A retrospective folder review of all patients who presented for treatment of deliberate self-harm to Groote Schuur Hospital. Methods: During the time period, 238 consecutive …
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