HLT54115 Nursing
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Introduction
The preparation for the emergency healthcare situation is one of the key nursing care ethics for nurses. Being a nursing care professional, I need to be ready to provide effective care plans for emergency patients. Emergency preparedness is the key notion for the nurses. Thus, the study the healthcare strategies for nurses to provide quality care to patients suffering from an accident. As defined in the scenario, a car was driven into a crowded shopping mall and caused accidents of many. The disaster response team rushed to the spot to manage the severity of the situation. I will analyze the effectiveness of situational management in response to the situation. Additionally, my focus will be on the effectiveness of the nursing care plan for the betterment of accident affected ailing. The disaster management’s strategy for healthcare professionals will be analyzed by me in the study to evaluate future prevention techniques. I will summarize the whole discussion in the concluding part and will provide and will outline an appropriate recommendation to develop the care plan for disaster management.
Analysis
Situational management
The basic need of the nursing care professionals is to provide quality to care to each patient irrespective of the situation. Nursing ethics defines the ethical perspectives of a nurse in an emergency situation (Jiménez-Herrera & Axelsson, 2014). A car rushed to a shopping mall and caused a severe accident. I would have taken four steps to provide quality care to the patients
- I would rush to the spot along with my co healthcare professionals and provide first aid to the people affected by this accident who are rescued by the disaster response team. The first aid would include providing painkiller and bandage.
- Being nursing care staff, I would provide a careful dressing to the people with a fractured body part.
- I would have referred the seriously injure ailing to the local healthcare organization for emergency treatment and surgery (if necessary).
- After that, I would have started taking care of the people who are traumatized due to a sudden accident. I would take them to a secured spot and provide mental assistance to them for effective trauma care. The mental guidance is an effective technique for trauma care (Anderson, Farmer & Galante, 2018).
Nursing plan
The nursing care plans define the ethical duties of a nursing care professional. Being a nursing care staff, I need to provide quality care to the ailing affected by the mass casualty. Health professionals play a pivotal role in this kind of scenario to control the situation in an effective way. The situation is very much chaotic. Individuals have suffered serious physical injuries and mental trauma due to the accident (McHugh, Krinsky & Sharma, 2018). Being a nursing care professional, I quickly observed and made a situational analysis of the condition. After the accidents, the rescue team arrived at the place of the accident. I think the first job is to rescue and segregate the severely injured people and take them to a safe place. I helped the rescue team to rescue the persons from the accident spot and relocating them to a safer location. After that, the next step in the plan of the health professional is to calm the patient down from the traumatic condition. I think the next most essential step in the plan is to treat the physical injuries of the patient and implement effective first aid and nursing care. I helped the health professional in delivering primary treatment to the affected victims. The wounded place ware washed efficiently and plastering was performed (Makombe, 2017). I would have provided them with some painkiller for initial relief.
Disaster management strategy
The strategy for disaster management in the healthcare setting is developed to unfold the moral duties of nurses during the emergency situation. The strategy comprises of four stages those are mentioned below:
Preparation: The preparation stage denotes the preparation necessary for disaster management. As health professionals need to take the first aid kits and other equipment to be prepared to manage any kind of injuries in an efficient manner (Rheem, Choi, Kwak & Oh, 2016).This is the most vital stage proper risk assessment should be done in this stage. Prediction of casualties is done in this stage.
Response: The response stage emphasizes the implementation of the rescue is done according to the type of disaster. The response should synchronize with the preparatory stage (Nogami, 2018)
Restoration: The restoration stage focuses on the primary first aid treatment of the victims, the restoration part comprises of the safe transfer of the patient to nursing home care settings (Nogami, 2018).
Mitigation: This includes the mitigation of risks from the lessons that are learners from disaster management activities. It comprises the follow-up activity (Rheem, Choi, Kwak & Oh, 2016).
Conclusion
The study has depicted the related mitigation plan needed to mitigate the situation. The study comprises of situational analysis, nursing care plan and implementation of nursing care to save the victims from severe physical injuries and mental trauma. A disaster management strategy in the form a disaster management plan is depicted in the study. I think the emergency rescue team should work on communication and coordination to make holistic development to implement effective care measure.
References
Anderson, J., Farmer, D., & Galante, J. (2018). As Trauma Surgeons, Let’s Call “Non-Accidental Trauma” What it is. Journal Of Trauma And Acute Care Surgery, 1. doi: 10.1097/ta.0000000000001996
Jiménez-Herrera, M., & Axelsson, C. (2014). Some ethical conflicts in emergency care. Nursing Ethics, 22(5), 548-560. doi: 10.1177/0969733014549880
Makombe, R. (2017). Care plans. Nursing Standard, 31(22), 72-73. doi: 10.7748/ns.31.22.72.s49
McHugh, C., Krinsky, R., & Sharma, R. (2018). Innovations in Emergency Nursing: Transforming Emergency Care Through a Novel Nurse-Driven ED Telehealth Express Care Service. Journal Of Emergency Nursing, 44(5), 472-477. doi: 10.1016/j.jen.2018.03.001
Nogami, T. (2018). Disaster myths among disaster response professionals and the source of such misconceptions. Journal Of Contingencies And Crisis Management. doi: 10.1111/1468-5973.12218
Rheem, S., Choi, W., Kwak, C., & Oh, K. (2016). A Cooperative Emergency Response System based on the Disaster Response Activity Plan. Crisis And Emergency Management, 12(4), 1-15. doi: 10.14251/crisisonomy.2016.12.4.1
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