Teaching in Nursing Practice
Introduction
Trofino (n.d) states that to succeed in the nursing profession, nurses must be ready for a high-touch, high-caring and high-tech profession where learning never cease. According to the Singapore Nursing Board (2014), nurses are required to maintain their competencies through continuing nursing education in order to deliver safe patient care and to keep updated with the advances and innovations in healthcare.
Working in the Emergency Department (ED)
Television programme has always potrays the ED to be a place filled with blood, guts and pus. However in actual fact, the ED tend to see more cases of Chest Pain (CP), Abdominal Pain (AP) and other medical ailments that patient may present with. However, we could be dealing with a patient who presents with a simple dislocation of the shoulder in one moment and in an instance, preparing to receive a patient who is having a cardiac arrest. That is the beauty of working in the ED, situation and the types of cases we attend to, changes all the time. Burgess (n.d.) mentions that in order for a nurse to be able to function in the ED, the nurse are required to have shrewd assessment skills, flexibility to adapt to ever evolving situations and the ability to keep cool and calm in a highly stressed environment.
The different areas in the ED.
The ED consist of many different area assigned to treat different level acuity of patients. The areas that are present in my ED are:
Resuscitation Room or “Resus” (P1) – this is the area where the most critically injured and seriously ill patients will be cared for in individual panels. The staff to patient ration usually will be about two patients to one nurse. The ED is equippped to treat and stablised emergency paediatric patients.
Critical Care Area (P2) – this is the area where the majority of patients who have moderate medical illness or less serious injury but who need to be cared for on trolleys or monitored closely.
Ambulatory Area (P3) –
Trofino (n.d) states that to succeed in the nursing profession, nurses must be ready for a high-touch, high-caring and high-tech profession where learning never cease. According to the Singapore Nursing Board (2014), nurses are required to maintain their competencies through continuing nursing education in order to deliver safe patient care and to keep updated with the advances and innovations in healthcare.
Working in the Emergency Department (ED)
Television programme has always potrays the ED to be a place filled with blood, guts and pus. However in actual fact, the ED tend to see more cases of Chest Pain (CP), Abdominal Pain (AP) and other medical ailments that patient may present with. However, we could be dealing with a patient who presents with a simple dislocation of the shoulder in one moment and in an instance, preparing to receive a patient who is having a cardiac arrest. That is the beauty of working in the ED, situation and the types of cases we attend to, changes all the time. Burgess (n.d.) mentions that in order for a nurse to be able to function in the ED, the nurse are required to have shrewd assessment skills, flexibility to adapt to ever evolving situations and the ability to keep cool and calm in a highly stressed environment.
The different areas in the ED.
The ED consist of many different area assigned to treat different level acuity of patients. The areas that are present in my ED are:
Resuscitation Room or “Resus” (P1) – this is the area where the most critically injured and seriously ill patients will be cared for in individual panels. The staff to patient ration usually will be about two patients to one nurse. The ED is equippped to treat and stablised emergency paediatric patients.
Critical Care Area (P2) – this is the area where the majority of patients who have moderate medical illness or less serious injury but who need to be cared for on trolleys or monitored closely.
Ambulatory Area (P3) –