Opioids Posing Increasingly Dangerous Threats to Emergency Nurses
July 20, 2017
July 20, 2017
DES PLAINES, Ill., July 20 -- The Emergency Nurses Association issued the following news release:
The opioid epidemic ravaging communities across the United States is posing a new threat to those on the front line who are working to combat it. Increasingly, police officers, paramedics and emergency nurses are treating patients who have overdosed on opioids, and in some cases, those healthcare providers are being exposed to toxic levels of the drugs.
The threat from opio . . .
The opioid epidemic ravaging communities across the United States is posing a new threat to those on the front line who are working to combat it. Increasingly, police officers, paramedics and emergency nurses are treating patients who have overdosed on opioids, and in some cases, those healthcare providers are being exposed to toxic levels of the drugs.
The threat from opio . . .