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Don't you just hate it when you have your last assessment charted, vital signs complete and morning meds ready to be given so u can just give report and leave and then bam u have an admission coming because decided they been having chest pain for 2 weeks and at 3 am it's time to go to the ER!
Maybe they never heard of going to the doctor's office or stopping by the clinic to get checked out! Maybe they stopped by after leaving the club and said "hey now is a good time to check on that chest pain!" I just don't get it. The ER is for "emergencies" not a convenient 24 hour doctor visit! Utilize your physician and clinics for the non-emergent treatments and stop wasting the ER resources for your convenience. And you wonder why the average wait time is 5 hours lol.
This is Foxxy and that's just the way I see it!
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14 years ago
while i totally feel you, i've noticed that some folks use the er instead of doctor offices because they dont' have health insurance. could this be the case?
ReplyDeleteMy favorite these days is "I think I was exposed to the swine flu"so they come to the er and sit next to all the actual flu pts in the waiting room for 3 hours with their 2month old baby who needs to also be seen for constipation...people need to think about what emergencies actualy are and go to work so we all can do the same
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