Emergency Nursing Attention Deficit Disorder and Nurses' Satisfaction

Boarding inpatients has become an all-too-frequent occurrence in emergency departments (EDs) across the country. Twenty years ago, boarding inpatients in an ED was not common and usually occurred only in large, inner-city departments. Now, 25-bed critical access hospitals and large academic medical centers alike share this burden. And, although The Joint Commission mandates that hospitals make efforts to decrease ED overcrowding, most of us at the stretcher-side would agree that we've seen little to no progress in the past 5–10 years. In fact, it's getting worse.

Full article: Emergency Nursing Attention Deficit Disorder and Nurses´ Satisfaction 

Section Editor(s): Proehl, Jean A. RN, MN, CEN, CPEN, FAEN; Hoyt, K. Sue PhD, RN, FNP-BC, CEN, FAEN, FAANP, FAAN

Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal:

July/September 2013 - Volume 35 - Issue 3 - p 183–184

doi: 10.1097/TME.0b013e31829b4085

From the Editors