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Monday, June 21, 2010
To all the ER nurses out there...
If you had a patient with a cardiac history who presented to your ER with nausea, vomiting and recent intractable pain, would you put a monitor on him/her?
Just wondering for a friend...we're having a discussion at work.
2 comments:
Not an ER nurse, but an L&D nurse - and my answer is OH HELL YEAH!! That patient needs to be on an EKG monitor, for sure.
Absolutely. And do an EKG and draw CCU labs and get the chest xray done. THEN I'd let the doctor see them.
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