We are a Level II community hospital verified by the ACS/COT.. Our team is
made up of the primary nurse at the bedside and responsible for primary and
secondary assessment. There is a second RN who assists with drips, etc. and
a patient care technician who assists with everything else. The recorder is
either myself during the days or the nursing supervisor who will do it
herself or assign a float RN to do the documentation. There have been some
issues of missing data when the float pool documents but that has improved
with ongoing education. The primary nurse is ultimately held accountable
for the documentation whoever does it. There are the other team members
present as well. The primary nurse wants to be at the bedside doing her own
assessments, in charge of the patient care. There are the best trained and
know what is needed. Kirstie
> -----Original Message-----
> From: eric.peterson@aurorabaycare.com
> [SMTP:eric.peterson@aurorabaycare.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 21, 2003 8:30 AM
> To: TraumaNurses@TraumaNurseSoc.org
> Subject: [traumanurses] Trauma team makeup
>
> A question for the group. We are a Level II community based center. We
> have our trauma team in the ED as the ED nurse primary/record keeper,
> secondary ED Nurse and ICU Nurse at the bedside with the assundry other
> staff that also respond to the level I's. I have been getting a lot of
> flack from some of the ED staff as to the primary Nurse not being able to
> "get dirty" so to say in the initial part of the resuscitation. The
> question is do any of you have alternate team make ups that differ from
> this and if so, what is it. The concept I have for the
> primary/documentation is that it is the ED nurse and they have control
> over the room to make sure things are done, the assessments are completed
> and I thought that it would be best to have the ED Nurse do this since
> they
> have the most experience with the process and such. I am not married to
> this concept, but I think it makes the most sense. Also, if there are
> other ways I would be open to it. I have stated that I do not want the
> same nurse being primary all the time. This is harder on nights with the
> more limited staffing.
>
> Thank You
>
> Eric Peterson
> Trauma Coordinator
> Aurora Baycare Medical Center
> Email: eric.peterson@aurorabaycare.com
> Phone: 920-288-4301
> Pager: 920-556-1846
> Fax: 920-288-4067
>
>
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