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Exploring Current Emergency Medical Services Approaches to Manage Agitated Older Adult Patients: An Analysis of Statewide Protocols

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, EarlyView.
Most state EMS protocols provide guidance on management of agitated patients, including use of physical restraints and chemical sedatives, yet older adult‐specific modifications or dosing guidance are uncommon. ABSTRACT Background Agitation in older adults presents unique challenges for emergency medical services (EMS) clinicians.
Joshua Lachs, Rana Barghout, William Haussner, David Hancock, Emily Benton, Maia Dorsett, Gregory Peters, Rebecca Cash, Joseph Holley, Tony Rosen   +9 more
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Nurses' Experiences Caring for People Presenting to the Emergency Department With Mental Health Concerns

Journal of Clinical Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim To explore the experiences of Emergency Department nurses when caring for patients presenting to the Emergency Department with mental health issues. Design Qualitative descriptive study. Methods Ten nurses with experience caring for mental health patients participated in face‐to‐face, semi‐structured interviews.
Caitlin Kent, Catherine Stephen, Elizabeth Halcomb   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Emergency Department Triage Nurses' Scope of Practice: An Observational Study

Journal of Clinical Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim To explore emergency department triage nurses' scope of practice and activities related to their triage role and management of patients located in emergency department waiting areas. Design Exploratory, descriptive, observational study using naturalistic decision making.
Julie Considine, Elizabeth Oldland, Judy Currey, Philippa Blencowe, Katrina Maybury, Leanne Stella, Amy Pearson, Paul Buntine, Kate Curtis   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

When Ethics Hurts: The Causes and Impact of Moral Distress on Emergency Department Nurses: A Scoping Review

Journal of Clinical Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim To explore the extent and range of published research on the nature of moral distress in emergency nurses. Design Scoping review. Methods The review followed the Joanna Briggs Institute methodology for scoping reviews and was reported in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta‐Analyses Extension for ...
C. Walters, M. Murray, C. Young
wiley   +1 more source

Institutional Logics and Relational Inequality in UK Surgery: Demographic Dominance and the Uneven Governance of Careers

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Persistent gender and racial inequalities within elite professions remain inadequately explained by accounts focusing exclusively on either intra‐organizational processes or field‐level institutional dynamics. Relational inequality theory (RIT) provides a powerful account of closure within organizations but offers limited specification of how ...
Carol Woodhams, Ira Parnerkar
wiley   +1 more source

Searching for safety: Working conditions and policing in a US emergency department

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In the United States, emergency departments aren't supposed to turn anyone away. They are the safety‐net of the safety‐net providing life‐saving care. Yet, what happens to healthcare when conditions are so strained that patients and staff lash out at each other? What happens when the safety net becomes a carceral net?
Fabián Luis C. Fernández
wiley   +1 more source

Extracting vitalities: Cuts in Indigenous women's bodies‐territories (Brazil)

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, I explore the connections between the medicalization of childbirth and environmental devastation through Guarani‐Mbyá understandings of life and the living. I argue that the cuts made to Guarani‐Mbyá women's vaginas (episiotomies) in Brazilian hospitals are experienced and situated on the same cosmopolitical level as the cuts ...
Maria Paula Prates
wiley   +1 more source

Straddling “The Gulf Between Medicine and Law”: Medico‐legal addiction and Japanese psychiatry

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Increasing punitive drug regulations in Japan amplify longstanding tensions within psychiatric practice, pushing psychiatrists to balance clinical obligations with complex socio‐legal demands. This article analyzes how psychiatrists specializing in illicit substance use disorders to navigate escalating criminalization by developing diagnostic ...
Selim Gokce Atici
wiley   +1 more source

Betwixt playing the waiting game and waiting in vain: Temporal governance and the thin alignment of care under universal health coverage in Kenya

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates how Kenyan citizens access healthcare within the framework of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) reforms. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, it reconceptualizes waiting as a politically structured phenomenon rather than a simple delay. The analysis shows that UHC reforms do not eliminate waiting but instead redistribute it,
Edwin Ambani Ameso
wiley   +1 more source

An international survey of the relatives and friends of electroconvulsive therapy recipients

Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, EarlyView.
Abstract Objectives This study aimed to address the paucity of studies of the relatives and friends of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) patients. Methods A total of 1144 people responded to an online survey. Results The respondents included 286 relatives and friends of ECT recipients, from 22 countries.
Christopher Harrop, Sue Cunliffe, Sarah Price Hancock, Lucy Johnstone, Lisa Morrison, John Read   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source