Journal of emergency nursing : JEN : official publication of the Emergency Department Nurses Association
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Emergency nurse-accompanied telemetry transport on admission to the hospital is a common practice. Potential drawbacks include inefficient use of nursing resources, unnecessary telemetry transports, and disruption of care for remaining ED patients. ⋯ Findings provided evidence that low-risk telemetry patients had minimal chance of adverse events during transport and highlighted added risks for the remaining emergency patients. Alternative models and interventions are needed to identify appropriate patients for telemetry transport, assign appropriate staff such as licensed paramedics for transport, and evaluate alternative models of nursing care and teamwork in the emergency department.
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Contemporary emergency departments experience crowded conditions with poor patient outcomes. If triage nurses could accurately predict admission, one theoretical intervention to reduce crowding is to place patients in the admission cue on arrival to the emergency department. The purpose of this study was to determine if triage nurses could accurately predict patient dispositions.
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The review questions that are featured in each of issue of JEN are based on the Emergency Nursing Core Curriculum and other pertinent resources to emergency nursing practice, pediatric and adult. These questions offer emergency nurses an opportunity to test their knowledge about their practice.