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<blockquote data-quote="Hound dog" data-source="post: 572538" data-attributes="member: 84"><p>From experience? You can't do much if anything. </p><p></p><p>Patients are triaged according to severity of illness/injury when they come in to the unit. Ambulance patients are always seen first priority, regardless. (at least is the usual procedure) </p><p></p><p>So say you have someone bleeding (not hemorrhaging) and in need of stitches whatever and yet you've got a stroke patient, a cardiac patient, and a severe trauma patient taking up ER beds......bleeding patient will get some triage done then sent to waiting area to wait for a bed to open. </p><p></p><p>If you feel you need to speak to someone, then ask to speak to the ER unit supervisor/manager. There has to be one for every shift. Don't be surprised though if they don't come right out and greet you because in most hospitals they're working with patients right along with the rest of their staff.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hound dog, post: 572538, member: 84"] From experience? You can't do much if anything. Patients are triaged according to severity of illness/injury when they come in to the unit. Ambulance patients are always seen first priority, regardless. (at least is the usual procedure) So say you have someone bleeding (not hemorrhaging) and in need of stitches whatever and yet you've got a stroke patient, a cardiac patient, and a severe trauma patient taking up ER beds......bleeding patient will get some triage done then sent to waiting area to wait for a bed to open. If you feel you need to speak to someone, then ask to speak to the ER unit supervisor/manager. There has to be one for every shift. Don't be surprised though if they don't come right out and greet you because in most hospitals they're working with patients right along with the rest of their staff. [/QUOTE]
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