Emergency Care & Nursi.ng Practice |
Myung-Hee, Nah |
Director of Nursing Department, Han Yang University Hospital |
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Abstract |
I . Introduction
Statement of Purpose: The emergency care that we, who are involved in the medical profession frequently experience, has been an indispensable matter for both the patients who receive the treatment and the medical specialists who give the treatment. It will contribute to save the valuable human lives by offering our very best emergency nursing procedures which should be more effective and more efficient.
ll . Outline of Contents
I. Realm of nursing in the scope of emergency care
1) Legal respects
2) In the respect of nursing science
3) Legal definition of emergency patients
2. American cases
.3. What is the scope of nursing role in the emergency care?
Regional realm: emergent situation and unpredicted disaster
Cardiopulmonary arrest considered to be the most emergent situation and how to efficiently perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
4. Suggestions given to offer the best nursing activities with our best capacity ethically, technically, and legally to regain the patients' rights to protect their lives that could be lost in a matter of a second,
1) Human relationship between doctors and nurses
2) Legal support and necessity of nursing procedures
3) Standardization of emergency care
4) Organization and administration of the emergency care committee
5) Regulations to define the limitations of duties of doctors and nurses
6) Records in the emergency dept. as the material for objective evidences
7) To secure efficient nursing power
Ⅲ. Conclusion
To examine and enforce those matters Ⅰmentioned above, we will be able to protect the patients and ourselves who are responsible for their lives ethically and medically, as well as enhance the credit of the public in the legal respect. |
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