By Kane on
Thursday, March 24, 2011 3:15 PM
It’s your first day on the job in the ED and first up is a 23 year-old male with a 2 day history of a sore throat. He’s had difficulty swallowing and finds it painful to eat and drink.
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By Ian on
Thursday, March 24, 2011 2:19 PM
There is quite a lot of debate at the moment over the efficacy of psychological debriefing immediately following a critical incident or traumatic event.
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By Ian on
Sunday, March 06, 2011 2:27 PM
Its a question you hear a lot in the emergency department: does using an alcohol wipe to clean the skin prior to taking a blood alcohol specimen affect the reading?
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By Ian on
Thursday, March 03, 2011 2:25 PM
As we roll into 2011, Emergency Departments all over Australia are preparing to experience the seasonal surge in demand for their services.
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By Ian on
Friday, January 14, 2011 2:57 PM
One of the more serious mistakes we can make as nurses, is to incorrectly identify a blood specimen we are sending off to pathology.
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By Ian on
Friday, January 14, 2011 2:51 PM
The NSW nurses association (NSWNA) is currently escalating its industrial actions in an attempt to secure safer nurse staffing ratios and to bring it into alignment with similar existing ratios in place in Victorian hospitals.
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By Kane on
Thursday, December 02, 2010 2:31 PM
Minor injuries a clinical guide is written by Nurse Educator Dennis Purcell, a specialist in minor injury assessment and management in the UK.
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By Ian on
Thursday, December 02, 2010 10:44 AM
“Ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals and they answer is: ‘Because animals are like us.’
“Ask the experimenters why it is morally okay to experiment on animals, and the answer is: ‘Because the animals are not like us.’
“Animal experimentation rests on a logical contradiction.”
:: Prof. Charles R. Magel ::
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By Ian on
Thursday, December 02, 2010 10:34 AM
Nursing has always suffered from a bit of an inferiority complex.
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By Kane on
Thursday, November 18, 2010 3:11 PM
A 32 years old female present’s to ED, c/o sore left thumb after she slipped while mopping the floor causing her thumb to abduct against the mop handle.
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