Tweets related to #emergency #nursing #healthcare etc. Big fan of #nursetwitter, #FOANed, #FOAMed, and neophyte nursing simulationist
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The next joint NENA and AIIUQ conference will be held at the Hilton HOtel- Lac Leamy in Gatineau (QC) from June 7-9th and registration in now open!
Register at: aiiuq.qc.ca/congres-2024-ins…
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School nurses could be forced to cover Lakeshore Hospital ER montreal.ctvnews.ca/school-n…
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Rural hospitals brace for summer staff shortages that could hurt ERs lfpress.com/news/local-news/… via @lfpress
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Anyone who's recently been to an emergency dept in Ontario recently knows things aren't exactly going well.
It's remarkable that the gov't is cutting physician hours (not how much we get paid) but rather how many MDs we can staff in many EDs around ON.
TL/DR - bad idea.
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Why do I hate hearing “the patient was bucking the vent”?
Mainly because it’s usually followed by “so we increased sedation.”
✅ Read on to learn what to say & do instead to better help your patient 🧵
#MedTwitter #NurseTwitter #MedEd
#MedTwitter, #NurseTwitter - what’s the most annoying medical colloquialism in your specialty?
I personally hate “bucking the vent”
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Canadian Journal of Emergency Nursing · Vol. 45, No. 3, Fall 2022 Inpatient supervised consumption services: A nursing perspective . Article available here: cjen.ca/index.php/cjen/artic…
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I woke up this morning and almost spit out my coffee... I was shocked that Nadia Surani, @ONThealth official had the audacity to put these thoughts in a formal request...and was actually serious..
My wife and my dad are both primary care docs.
A 🧵
cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/o…
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A few reflections as I look around a dysfunctional healthcare system.
I see firsthand every day how terrible the situation is yet one of the unfortunate features of staffing a system with such resilient healthcare workers...is that it will never truly "collapse"...
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I reject the precept that "there are no ER nurses".
There are, they didn't die, they weren't lifted up and out in an end of times rapture, they were not sucked int a cosmic black hole - they are elsewhere in the system - waiting for a chance/change to get back to their vocation.
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First we had an emergency room. As we provided more and more services, we grew into departments with dozens of beds. Now all our beds are filled with inpatients and we once again have a single emergency room - one that we used to call the waiting room.
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Let me paint a picture of #peds #emergency care for you.
Let's say your 3 year old bonks his head on the coffee table right before dinner. Nothing horrible, but needs stitches. You take him to urgent care. They tell you that they can't fix it, and you need to go to the ER.
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Fix nursing. Covid isn't the problem. Nursing staffing shortages, as a result of decades of neglect, is currently THE issue.
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I found EKGs got a lot easier to read once I started visualizing leads as pins on a globe
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With sadness we acknowledge the passing of Primary Care Paramedic Mark Gomes. He was humble, caring and full of compassion for his patients both in @RegionWaterloo & @GWParamedic. Our thoughts are with his family and loved ones today. He is missed by all who's lives he touched.
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It's probably about time for hospital, healthcare and gov't leadership to address this
I suspect solutions will be mostly focused on "fixing" emergency departments. That's like giving the canary a gas mask so they last longer in the mine
@alandrummond2
cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/h…
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There is a major problem on the horizon:
Current COVID therapeutic guidelines were written specifically to apply to a pandemic
If we try to use the same guidelines perpetually, we will break the healthcare system
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🧵on 'French' and 'Gauge'
The 'French' unit of measurement was once known as the 'Charrière', after Joseph-Frédéric-Benoît Charrière, a Swiss knifemaker who moved to France in 1820 and became a manufacturer of surgical instruments.
1 Fr = 1/3 mm.
It was renamed because...
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We keep hearing how our healthcare system is collapsing (which it is). But that does nothing to improve our understanding.
Let’s use a hypothetical emergency department visit to highlight the disaster that is happening every day around the country.
Here’s a thread 🧵:
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People ask me how is the emergency department these days, is there much #COVID19 anymore?
My observations below in a short🧵
TL/DR = the healthcare system is a disaster and it will be years before it improves...so buckle up.
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