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Nurses Role In Emergency Nursing

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It is widely acknowledged that nurses are a crucial component of the healthcare system. They are an integral part of clinical services and have primary responsibility for a significant proportion of patient care in most healthcare settings. Nurses are prone to occupational hazards and injuries in the course of their day to day activities in the health care settings (Isara and Ofili, 2012). Given the nature of nursing working environment, responsibilities and duties, nurses are on the frontline of numerous occupational hazards such as biological/infectious disease, chemical risks, environmental/ mechanical risks, physical risks, and psychosocial risks. The safety of nurses from workplace-induced injuries and illnesses is important to nurses …show more content…

Although the early nurses who responded to emergencies during historic events may have been something other than the fully educated, licensed, certified, professional nurses as we know them today, their described role is consistent with a modern understanding of nursing: attention to the injured or ill individual; assuring provision of water, food, clean dressings, and bedding; providing relief from pain; and offering a human touch that says "I care." This article reviews the beginning of emergency nursing as a specialty, and the 21st century expectations about nursing during catastrophic events. Included are brief discussions of various nursing roles related to emergency …show more content…

In order to meet this surge demand for nursing services, registers of nurses prepared to be deployed where needed are being developed by many state level nursing associations, boards of nursing, and state public health agencies. Further, nurses are being recruited into Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) units in communities across the country. Medical Reserve Corps Units aim to assist with filling local surge capacity needs for both public health and acute care agencies. In many communities recruitment into the MRC has emphasized those health professionals not currently employed, whether because of retirement or other reasons, but who would like to serve their communities is a time of emergency. The MRC was conceived as a part of citizen activism that can take full advantage of the interest that many people have in serving where they live and work. Newly specified competencies for MRC members focus on readiness for action, family preparedness, and capacity to function within a local incident response

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After the individuals with special needs are identified, the emergency managers must also identify any special equipment use by the special population, obtained them and establish Functional Needs Support Shelter (FNSS). The Emergency manager must conduct all the coordination prior any evacuation, if possible, the emergency manager must conduct at least one training exercise in order to make individuals with special needs become familiar with the evacuation plan, review and update the emergency plan. Evacuating of senior citizens could be challenging due to the diversity of health problems they may have, The Emergency manager must coordinate with medical personnel in order to establish a triage area, in order to identify the

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I am the Lead Case Manager at Pensacola Naval Hospital and I would like to recommend Miss Traci Allen for consideration into the United Navy Reserves as a commissioned officer in Navy Nurse Corps. Miss Allen possesses the qualities that are imperative in today’s Navy. Miss Allen demonstrated the ability to quickly assume the role of Nurse Case Manager from her previous role as Emergency Room Register Nurse. Miss Allen is responsible for the oversight of 8,000 enrollees managed at the Naval Hospital Family Medicine clinic, to include but not limited to active duty personnel, beneficiaries, and retirees. She works as an integrate member to the interdisciplinary team, ensuring and adhering to the highest standard of patient care in an ever changing health care environment.

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Objective One During my clinical day three, I demonstrated entry-level competence in professional nursing practice in caring for patients with multiple and/or complex unmet human needs. I addressed safety needs, safety in medication administration, effective communication, and surveillance for my patients. First, I addressed safety needs my ensuring the appropriate safety measures were implemented for the patients. Some of the safety measures included, wearing non-skid socks, wearing a yellow armband which indicated fall risk, keeping the bed in lowest position, two side rails up, bed locked, and the call light within reach.

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Introduction The novel Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink is a gripping recollection of experiences from the effects of the natural disaster, Hurricane Katrina. Ethical dilemmas were presented when dying patients and poor conditions met. Because of Katrina, the floodwaters caused power outages that eliminated the ability to use essential equipment to care for critically ill patients (p. 64). Patients on life support required nurses to manually ambu-bagging them in order to maintain ventilation (p. 125).

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Paramedics play an important role in emergency response, They provide life-saving care and support to those in need. Despite their essential role, paramedics face difficult challenges that are quite frankly unnoticed by society. Not only are they exposed to traumatic situations daily, but they also experience physical, emotional, and psychological traumas that can have long-term impacts on their well-being. In this essay, I will give an insight to the types of traumas that paramedics go through, and show that greater awareness and support is needed to address the difficult challenges of this profession.

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In mass casualty events, triage is very important concept to increase the number of the survivor, eventhough it bear some ethical issue. Triage is a process of allocating treatment and evacuation priorities to the patients based on the severity of their injuries (Wong, 2011). Regarding the method used, patients are sorted into 4 categories by triage : immediate (red), delayed (green), ambulatory (yellow) and expectant (black) (Aitken & Leggat, 2011). Immediate means the patient is suffering a critical injury so that the need to be treated right away to save their lives. Delayed means the patients are suffering injury but did not expected to die in a couple hours.

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