Emergency Room Staffing

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This paper discusses staffing issues in the emergency departments of most hospitals ranging from staffing shortages, job dissatisfaction rates and lack of proper staff training. Comments are included as they relate to patients' compromised levels of care that result. A series of recommendations conclude the paper and range from simple color coding for emergency department delivery of care teams to adding a faculty physician to work in the waiting room and discharge patients not requiring further treatment by a team of nurses and physicians or diagnostic testing.

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This is a high level paper discussing staffing issues in the Emergency Departments of most hospitals ranging from staffing shortages, job dissatisfaction rates and lack of proper staff training. A series of recommendations conclude the paper. Most television shows that depict an emergency department in a major hospital are misleading. Yes, they show the congested traffic, the overcrowded waiting rooms and drama associated with trauma, but they have the staffing ratio all wrong; at least based on this writer's observations.

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