At our facility, the Er schedule is divided. Some are assigned to Trauma
Bay, and some to ER. When a trauma comes in and the Er becomes overloaded, Ticu
nurses are sent to the trauma bay to help.
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We currently utilize
nursing staff from the ED to provide all nursing care during the trauma
resuscitation. This same nurse accompanies the patient to any radiologic
procedures and finally to their destination unit. As you might expect, on
a busy trauma day/night, this can pull several nurses at a time out away from
their "routine" duties, leaving the ED itself short staffed. Utilizing the
trauma registry we have trended days of the week and times that are "trauma heavy" and began to staff accordingly, but some of these things you
cannot plan for! Can any of you share ideas on how you utilize nursing
staff in caring for trauma patients without depleting the ED?
I'll look
forward to hearing your thoughts-
Janet F. Cortez RN, MSN
Trauma Program Manager
University of Utah Hospital
50 N. Medical Drive Rm #6009
SLC, UT 84132
(801) 581-2622 office
(801) 581-2799
fax
janet.cortez@hsc.utah.edu
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