I've been noticing out here in Los Angeles County that hospital ER nurses are doing procedures to patients on gurneys that anchor the EMTs to slickly turn a drop off to the ER into a Wait and Return.
My EMT instructor long ago stated that this is not supposed to be going down, and that the...
So I picked up a patient from a non-psych medical only hospital here in Southern California.
The patient was in the hospital for a week due to an OD, and I noticed that the 5150 hold date was written that week.
So I ask the head nurse/case manager if there was a 5250 hold in place. Because it...