There are days when I wish they would come up with Xanan in an aerosol form! Sure this would be a great delivery source for the crazy ER patients, but I think it would better serve at least one or two of the charge nurses I work with.
In my experience the volume really doesn't change much we are generally always busy, but as a staff nurse my number one concern is.. "is the patient safe". Now I have had the honor or working with some amazing charge nurses. They see the full picture and they too put the patient's safety first. They know that giving any nurse 3 untriaged patients back to back could be dangerous for the patient and puts even the most experienced nurse in a position where he or she cannot meet the patients needs, but if the cards are dealt that three ambulances pull up to your door and you have nowhere else to put the patients you put them wherever it is most appropriate and hope for the best--- and a good charge nurse gets the triage going, line and labs them, in the spirit of working together to best ensure that the patients needs are met. But unfortunately there are charge nurses out there who spaz out when asked to help and say "that's not my job". And for those charge nurses we should have aerosol form Xanax! A little spay to slow down their mania! Because clearing out the waiting room with patients who are not critical in record time, while compromising the care of sick patients really isn't what nursing is all about!
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