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I’m a retired registered nurse and have an answer for a number of the emergency room downside in our hospitals.
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Why are Pressing care clinics not open 24/7 on this metropolis?
The native ERs are sometimes overcrowded with non-emergency circumstances. Everyone knows youngsters usually get sick within the night or through the night time. They find yourself being dropped at the emergency room with excessive fevers, a rash, sore throat, and many others. They may have as a substitute simply be taken care of at a clinic.
These clinics might be run by Nurse Practitioners who can order meds, antibiotics or X-rays.
The native ERs then would be capable to higher take care of true emergencies — coronary heart assaults, accidents, overdoses — with lengthy wait occasions alleviated.
As a substitute these pressing care clinics shut at 6 pm and don’t open once more till 8 a.m. or 9 a.m. which to me is mindless. Kids might as a substitute be cared for sooner and fogeys not have wait occasions of hours.
I’m hoping there’s some technique to contemplate this resolution to assist deal with the issue and never simply be ignored.
Jeannette Byrne, Windsor
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