Triage: One Complaint at a Time

Living Through Your First Code: Sink or Swim?

S1:E17 Beyond learning algorithms, medication doses, and rates of compressions. What are you supposed to be doing in a code? What should you be doing in your first code? And how are you supposed to handle a visceral event like witnessing your first cardiac arrest?

Fundamentally Septic

S1:E16 When 60 minutes or less buys you someone's life why not talk about why it's important? Creating protocols and workflows extends the same safe and PROVEN interventions to the most critical of patients. Know why 30 ml/kg is important. Why does the lactic rise?

No Seizures On This Shift

S1:E15 Understanding s/s and interventions needed when treating a woman with preeclampsia is essential for any ER nurse or provider. There may only be minutes to spare when identifying the condition and beginning interventions without a major complication.

Triage: One Complaint at a Time

S1:E14 Understanding the overall importance and function of emergency room triage using ESI scoring is essential to recognize those who need to be assessed by a provider quickly and those who can wait. Being able to make an assessment of patients based on their appearance, complaint, vitals, and any other information presented during the triage process is the sign of an experienced and component RN. The key master and the gate keeper.

Follow the Path of Patho

S1:E13 Understanding the patho of a disease to the cellular level can give you the upper hand when attpting to diagnose a patient within the ER setting. It's paramount to know the small workings of the body when trying to understand what is happening to the patient and how our medical interventions work in each case