Janet B Quilloy has been a nurse for 24 years. During that time, she has been involved in many types of care, including emergency care. The emergency room is a hard place in which to work, especially in major cities, where often, there are not enough hospitals to deal with all of the emergencies that occur on a regular basis.
Emergency room staff have to deal with a wide number of injuries and illnesses, all while keeping as calm as possible and maintaining order. Triage is done when a large number of patients are in the emergency room at the same time. Patients are seen according to the severity of their case, and the physician and nurse performing triage can only hope that they are not putting the needs of a more serious patient behind those of a patient with a milder problem.
Emergency rooms have only been around for a little over one hundred years. The first trauma center in the world opened in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1911. A surgeon named Arnold Griswold was responsible for providing medical training for police officers and firefighters, and in the 1970s, firefighters finally became firefighter paramedics, providing emergency care to victims of fires and other accidents.
Hospitals are now designed to have an emergency room on the ground floor, where patients can easily be taken from an ambulance or other vehicle, or just walk in, if they are able to walk. In some lucky triage cases, the patient’s complaint is mild enough that it can be treated directly in the emergency room, with no need for surgery, X-rays, intubation, or other forms of emergency treatment.
Some emergency rooms have separate sections for patients who are children. Children can often have problems in describing what is wrong with them, which is often made worse by a frantic parent or parents demanding that the condition be treated immediately, even if the staff of the emergency room do not yet know what the problem is. Children experiencing minor issues, yet are afraid of this new environment and the new people in it, can be put at their ease by special therapists trained to deal with children’s issues.
Emergency rooms also have a psychiatric unit, for patients who are not sick or injured, but who are having a psychiatric problem, such as a psychotic outburst. Those who have threatened or attempted suicide are also taken here.
Emergency room staff have to deal with a wide number of injuries and illnesses, all while keeping as calm as possible and maintaining order. Triage is done when a large number of patients are in the emergency room at the same time. Patients are seen according to the severity of their case, and the physician and nurse performing triage can only hope that they are not putting the needs of a more serious patient behind those of a patient with a milder problem.
Emergency rooms have only been around for a little over one hundred years. The first trauma center in the world opened in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1911. A surgeon named Arnold Griswold was responsible for providing medical training for police officers and firefighters, and in the 1970s, firefighters finally became firefighter paramedics, providing emergency care to victims of fires and other accidents.
Hospitals are now designed to have an emergency room on the ground floor, where patients can easily be taken from an ambulance or other vehicle, or just walk in, if they are able to walk. In some lucky triage cases, the patient’s complaint is mild enough that it can be treated directly in the emergency room, with no need for surgery, X-rays, intubation, or other forms of emergency treatment.
Some emergency rooms have separate sections for patients who are children. Children can often have problems in describing what is wrong with them, which is often made worse by a frantic parent or parents demanding that the condition be treated immediately, even if the staff of the emergency room do not yet know what the problem is. Children experiencing minor issues, yet are afraid of this new environment and the new people in it, can be put at their ease by special therapists trained to deal with children’s issues.
Emergency rooms also have a psychiatric unit, for patients who are not sick or injured, but who are having a psychiatric problem, such as a psychotic outburst. Those who have threatened or attempted suicide are also taken here.
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