We can find articles through journals online or in Chamberlain library at the moment.Working in the emergency department as RN, is not an easy job. Everyday is a learning experience. ED is one of the place in the hospital where code gray (security is called) happens a lot. The staff in the ED are the first one who gets expose to different diseases. It has been my observation that we have been assisting procedure for lumbar tapping to rule out meningitis, sometimes as staffs we don’t protect ourselves by wearing mask, even if you don 't know yet if the patient has them or not, you will just be surprised at the end that you are called infection department and advises that we need to get antibiotics. From my experience, I have been exposed to a patient with TB and I did the course of treatment. It is hard because we deal with this patients first, before admission completed and admitting MD
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This visits have grown over the years and since there are no psychiatric facility, they access the ED, because we are open 24 hours. As per Bullard et al., (2008), “Because ED are available 24/7, they are often used by patients, caregivers, and community-based organizations as the point-of-system access to care foe mental health problems, resulting in a serious challenge to timely access to mental health services. Individuals will present for all manner of reasons, ranging from insomnia or difficulty coping with life crisis, to suicidal thoughts and self-harming acts, to full-blown psychotic episodes”. “Mental health patients also bring with them to the ED societal stigma, particularly concerns that they pose a risk to safety, that they might exhibit strange and unpredictable behavior and that they are to be feared or ridiculed” (Sartorius; Schulz &; Thornicroft
This visits have grown over the years and since there are no psychiatric facility, they access the ED, because we are open 24 hours. As per Bullard et al., (2008), “Because ED are available 24/7, they are often used by patients, caregivers, and community-based organizations as the point-of-system access to care foe mental health problems, resulting in a serious challenge to timely access to mental health services. Individuals will present for all manner of reasons, ranging from insomnia or difficulty coping with life crisis, to suicidal thoughts and self-harming acts, to full-blown psychotic episodes”. “Mental health patients also bring with them to the ED societal stigma, particularly concerns that they pose a risk to safety, that they might exhibit strange and unpredictable behavior and that they are to be feared or ridiculed” (Sartorius; Schulz &; Thornicroft