{"id":20,"date":"2009-11-16T14:34:13","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T13:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/?p=20"},"modified":"2009-11-16T14:34:13","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T13:34:13","slug":"emergency-department-initiation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/2009\/11\/16\/emergency-department-initiation\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency Department Initiation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small;font-family: Arial\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><span style=\"color: black\">My eagerly anticipated placement in the Emergency Department is about to begin. <span>\u00a0<\/span>It is 7 o\u2019clock in the morning, I am a bleary eyed and apprehensive as I make my entrance into the department for the first time.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>A central nurse\/doctor station is surrounded by rows of curtained cubicles through which I can discern the recumbent forms of patients with conditions unknown.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>I feel like an impostor masquerading in my freshly ironed student uniform.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>I look around me hoping to catch the eye of a passing nurse to whom I might introduce myself, and instead find myself beckoned into a cubicle by an elderly gentleman who needs the commode. <span>\u00a0<\/span>A moment of panic sweeps over me.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>I do not know what is wrong with him \u2013 should I get help?<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Will this be seen as a lack of confidence?<span>\u00a0 <\/span>I decide that I am not happy with the situation, and help arrives.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>As the man sits on the side of the trolley, his eyes roll up in the sockets and he collapses, shaking.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>We manage to get him back onto the trolley, and rush him to the \u2018resus\u2019 room where he recovers and I reflect on what might have happened if I had \u2018gone it alone\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My eagerly anticipated placement in the Emergency Department is about to begin. \u00a0It is 7 o\u2019clock in the morning, I am a bleary eyed and apprehensive as I make my entrance into the department for the first time.\u00a0 A central nurse\/doctor station is surrounded by rows of curtained cubicles through which I can discern the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/2009\/11\/16\/emergency-department-initiation\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1188,1192,1190],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emergency-department","category-evidence-based-nursing","category-student-nurse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}