General principles – Nursing is a profession within the healthcare sector focused on the care of individuals, families, and communities so they may attain, maintain, or recover optimal health and quality of life. Nurses may be differentiated from other healthcare providers by their approach to patient care, training, and scope of practice. Nurses practice in many specialisms with differing levels of prescriber authority.
Many nurses provide care within the ordering scope of physicians, and this traditional role has shaped the public image of nurses as care providers. However, nurses are permitted by most jurisdictions to practice independently in a variety of settings depending on training level. In the postwar period, nurse education has undergone a process of diversification towards advanced and specialized credentials, and many of the traditional regulations and provider roles are changing.
Nurses develop a plan of care, working collaboratively with physicians, therapists, the patient, the patient’s family, and other team members, that focus on treating illness to improve quality of life. Nurses may help coordinate the patient care performed by other members of an interdisciplinary healthcare team such as therapists, medical practitioners, and dietitians. Nurses provide care both interdependently, for example, with physicians, and independently as nursing professionals.
General principles
1. Act quietly and without panic.
2. Reassure injured and relatives in comforting manner.
3. Examine injured gather essential information on nature of emergency and injuries from injured, relatives and others.
4. Avoid handling injured unnecessarily.
5. Arrange for safe removal and transport to care of doctor or hospital.
6. Loosen tight clothing color and ties.
7. Keep the crowed away.
8. Do not keep alone the injured person to see his own injury and severe cases do not let him or her know about the kind of injury.
9. Always treat the most dangerous condition first e.g.: stop bleeding before attending fracture.
10. If the injured vomits, lower the head and turn it one side to avoid the material going to the lungs.
(Ref by-Lecture)
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