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    Emergency nursing focuses on responding to trauma and sudden illness, with goals of restoring physiological and psychological status to severely ill or injured patients. Emergency services include pre-hospital care, emergency telephone services, intra-hospital care, and electronic technology. The emergency department environment includes entrances, triage areas, offices, examination rooms, waiting rooms, and areas for minor surgeries and ambulances. Emergency nurses are knowledgeable about basic principles and techniques, sophisticated equipment, and the nursing process. Their roles include care provider, educator, manager, and advocate, with interventions that are independent, dependent, or interdependent. Ethical and legal issues faced include consent, negligence, confidentiality, autonomy, evidence gathering, malpractice, reporting

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    Emergency nursing focuses on responding to trauma and sudden illness, with goals of restoring physiological and psychological status to severely ill or injured patients. Emergency services include pre-hospital care, emergency telephone services, intra-hospital care, and electronic technology. The emergency department environment includes entrances, triage areas, offices, examination rooms, waiting rooms, and areas for minor surgeries and ambulances. Emergency nurses are knowledgeable about basic principles and techniques, sophisticated equipment, and the nursing process. Their roles include care provider, educator, manager, and advocate, with interventions that are independent, dependent, or interdependent. Ethical and legal issues faced include consent, negligence, confidentiality, autonomy, evidence gathering, malpractice, reporting

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    Emergency nursing focuses on responding to trauma and sudden illness, with goals of restoring physiological and psychological status to severely ill or injured patients. Emergency services include pre-hospital care, emergency telephone services, intra-hospital care, and electronic technology. The emergency department environment includes entrances, triage areas, offices, examination rooms, waiting rooms, and areas for minor surgeries and ambulances. Emergency nurses are knowledgeable about basic principles and techniques, sophisticated equipment, and the nursing process. Their roles include care provider, educator, manager, and advocate, with interventions that are independent, dependent, or interdependent. Ethical and legal issues faced include consent, negligence, confidentiality, autonomy, evidence gathering, malpractice, reporting

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    Emergency nursing focuses on responding to trauma and sudden illness, with goals of restoring physiological and psychological status to severely ill or injured patients. Emergency services include pre-hospital care, emergency telephone services, intra-hospital care, and electronic technology. The emergency department environment includes entrances, triage areas, offices, examination rooms, waiting rooms, and areas for minor surgeries and ambulances. Emergency nurses are knowledgeable about basic principles and techniques, sophisticated equipment, and the nursing process. Their roles include care provider, educator, manager, and advocate, with interventions that are independent, dependent, or interdependent. Ethical and legal issues faced include consent, negligence, confidentiality, autonomy, evidence gathering, malpractice, reporting

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    SCOPE OF EMERGENCY NURSING

    By JOKO SUTRISNO,S.Kep,Ns .M.Kes

    DEFINITION
    Emergency (ER) nursing directs attention to human responses to any trauma or sudden illness that requires interventions ranging from minimal care to life support.

    GOAL
    The emergency nursing common goal is to restore physiological or psychological status to the severely ill patient or the severely injured victim.

    EMERGENCY SERVICES

    PREHOSPITAL CARE EMERGENCY TELEPHONE INTRAHOSPITAL CARE ELECTRONIQUE TECHNOLOGY

    EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT (ED) ENVIRONMENT


    Entrances Triage Offices Conference room Orthopedic room X-ray room Laboratory Waiting room Examination rooms Minor surgeries Ambulance area

    ER NURSE CHARTERISTICS
    KNOWLEDGEABLE AND SKILLFULL FOR BASIC KNOWLEDGE OF PRINCIPLES AND TECHNIQUES SOPHISTICATED EQUIPMENT NURSING PROCESS

    ER NURSE ROLE
    CARE PROVIDER EDUCATOR MANAGER ADVOCATE

    ER NURSING INTERVENTIONS
    INDEPENDENT DEPENDENT INTERDEPENDENT

    ETHICAL & LEGAL ISSUES


    CONSENT NEGLIGENCE CONFIDENTIALITY AUTONOMY GATHER EVIDENCE TREATMENT MALPRACTICE FIDELITY REPORT DECISION MAKING

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