Addition to all of monitoring equipment

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CASE STUDY: WELL-INTENTIONED PROVIDERS

Even well-intentioned healthcare providers can cause harm. Consider what should have been done differently in the following case scenario. Laura, a 25-year-old woman, arrived at the ER complaining of chest pain. She has two young children at home, a 6-year-old boy and a 4-year-old girl. She stated that she has been experiencing severe fatigue and fluttering in her chest for weeks but felt that she needed rest and it was probably nothing. Today, she had the fluttering with chest pain, and even her teeth and jaw hurt. This scared her, so she decided to go to the hospital. However, she had to wait 2 hours for her mother to arrive to watch the children. Her husband is on a business trip and will not be returning for 4 days. The initial ECG revealed normal sinus rhythm, and all lab values were normal. The emergency room physician decided to keep her for observation and sent her to the telemetry unit. Laura was moved to telemetry and, as she stated, "wired for sound." The nurse described the equipment and told her that, in addition to all of the monitoring equipment, they would check her vital signs every.

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