Session 3: Emergency Nursing
Clinical Nursing 2020 | Singapore ER nurses work as part of a team with doctors, other nurses and healthcare specialists to offer care, monitor health situations, plan long-term care needs, administer medicine, use medical equipment, perform minor medical operations, and advise patients and their families on illness, care and continued care. Emergency nursing brings all a nurse’s training and experience to bear in caring for patients on days many describe as the worst day of their lives. These patients never “planned” to visit the emergency department (ED) on their way to work or to pick up their children, or on a day they’d deliberate for fun and friends. Whether emergency nurses are dealing with disturbances or infectious disease, psychiatric illnesses or chronic situations, injuries or acute life-threatening conditions, they care for all who present themselves. To be an emergency nurse, you need to have not just exceptional skills but a high level of patience and unders...