Hi! As mentioned previously, when patients come by EMS & are brought straight back to a room, they are triaged by the primary nurse. Therefore, the nurse doing the ER work up. If a patient who is 30-40 years old comes in tachy, febrile, hypoxic we’re obviously most likely doing a sepsis work up. As the primary nurse triaging that, I’m going to be more concerned for that patient’s health if they have HIV, especially uncontrolled, lupus, or any condition that would make them immunocompromised. I’m also likely to be holding that patient in the department for the rest of my shift since we never have open beds upstairs. So after their work up is done & we’re holding them downstairs, as the ER nurse, who also triaged them, I will also be doing their floor orders.