Tag: Emergency Care

Emergency are is a critical role that ensures the most vulnerable and critically ill patients receive treatment in a timely manner. Emergency care involves looking after patients with often life changing injuries.

Emergency Care

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Emergency Pain Management Lecture

Nursing Lectures

Pain occurs in all clinical settings, but it is a particular problem in the emergency care settings; indeed, nearly every condition......

Last modified: 19th Oct 2021

Burns and Shock Lecture

Nursing Lectures

This chapter introduces the emergency assessment and management of patients with burn injuries and shock. Burn injuries and shock......

Last modified: 19th Oct 2021

Other Medical / Surgical Emergencies Lecture

Nursing Lectures

As you saw in the previous chapter of this module, respiratory, cardiovascular and neurologic conditions are the most common types......

Last modified: 19th Oct 2021

Other Trauma Lecture

Nursing Lectures

Traumatic injuries are a significant problem in emergency care settings in the United Kingdom (UK). The previous chapter of this......

Last modified: 19th Oct 2021

Head, Neurologic, Orthopaedic and Spinal Trauma Lecture

Nursing Lectures

Head, neurologic, orthopaedic and spinal injuries are the most common types of traumatic injuries encountered in emergency care......

Last modified: 19th Oct 2021

Emergency Resuscitation Lecture

Nursing Lectures

This chapter introduces the principles and processes of emergency resuscitation. It begins with a brief discussion of the purpose......

Last modified: 19th Oct 2021

Emergency Triage and Rapid Assessment Lecture

Nursing Lectures

This chapter begins by defining the concept and purpose of triage in emergency care settings. It then considers the system of triage...

Last modified: 19th Oct 2021

Burnout and Stress, Violence and Aggression Lecture

Nursing Lectures

Emergency care settings are physically- and emotionally-demanding environments, both for the nurses who work within them and for......

Last modified: 19th Oct 2021

Introduction to Emergency Nursing Practice Lecture

Nursing Lectures

This chapter provides a broad introduction to emergency nursing as a practice speciality in the United Kingdom (UK)....

Last modified: 19th Oct 2021

Respiratory and Cardiovascular Emergencies Lecture

Nursing Lectures

Respiratory, cardiovascular and neurologic conditions are the most common types of medical emergencies encountered in emergency care...

Last modified: 19th Oct 2021

Reflection for Development of Resilience in Emergency Care Role

Reflective Essays

This essay will focus on an emergency situation using the critical reflection of an incident encountered in practice. This will be achieved using Drisdol’s (2007) model of reflection....

Last modified: 15th Dec 2020

Role of Triage in Emergency Care

Nursing Essays

There is a consensus on the fact that there has been a significant increase in traffic to emergency rooms which has resulted in rapidly growing demand on the limited resources of emergency rooms worldwide. ...

Last modified: 2nd Oct 2020

Peer Recovery Coaches in the Emergency Department: A New Resource

Nursing Literature Reviews

Introduction  Peer recovery coaching in the emergency department is critical in supporting patients with substance abuse disorders. They facilitate recovery through development of individualized ...

Last modified: 15th Jun 2020

Emergency Care And First Aid

Nursing Essays

Emergencies always strike suddenly, without warning. One moment everything is fine; the next, someone is involved in a serious accident. Victims include all ages, from tiny children to elderly folk. C...

Last modified: 11th Feb 2020

The Effect of Different Antibiotics on Bacteria

Nursing Essays

Antibiotics are medicines that kill bacteria. Bacteria can cause infections such as strep throat, ear infections, urinary tract infections, and sinus infections (sinusitis). There are many types of an...

Last modified: 11th Feb 2020

HIV & AIDS Education in the Emergency Services

Nursing Essays

HIV & AIDS Education, counseling & support services in the emergency medical service environment Introduction Our presentation is about historical ground and theories of origin of human i...

Last modified: 11th Feb 2020