Course Number :  NUR 488

Course Title : Emergency Nursing

Student No. 8 students over 4 weeks

Placement : Emergency & ICU. department - Military Hospital

Duration : 12 weeks (4 wks for each student)

Days : Monday , Tuseday, Wednesday

Instructor : Malak Al Husaini

Purpose of experiance :

         This course is provide to enable the stusents to acquire knowledge, skills, communication and professionalism for the emergency unite practice . The clinical experiance focuses on nursing interventions appropriate to patients with various emergency problems and life threatening situations.

Clinical learning objective :

      By the end of the clinical experiance the student should be able to:

1. Follow primary and secondary survey for adult and children.

2. Use the trauma score sheet to estimate the severity of injury and detect LOC through GCS.

3. Determine triage categories with the assistance of preceptor

4. Perform the emergency procedures skillfully.

5. Prepare and assemble equipment /supplies for the most common procedure performed in the emergency department.

6. provide rapid trauma management for a life threatening victim with preceptor assistance in emergency department.

7. Make dressing for any injured part of hte body.

8. carry out basic and advanced nursing interventions to assigned patients/victims according to plan of care.

9. Carry out specific nursing interventions according to nursing care assignment .

10. write and/or provide oral endorsement to transfer the patient to another unit.

11. commmunicate respectfully and courteously with patient , staff, relative , colleagues, and other members of hte caring team.

12. Explain all procedures /treatments to patients and relatives .

13. adhere to hospital policies and procedures in all patients' nursing care actinvities .

14. Follow standard procedures in caring for patients prior to and following special investigation procedures in emergency department .