This study is a bibliographic, descriptive, exploratory and qualitative research. The research took place in July August, 2021, the following databases: LILACS (Latin American Caribbean Literature on Health Sciences), MEDLINE (Medical Analysis Retrieval System Online) BDENF (Bibliographic Database Specialized Nursing Area. descriptors were used: Nursing; Urgency; Emergency Assistance, according...

BACKGROUND To date, there are no valid statistics regarding the number of full time staff necessary for nursing care in emergency departments in Europe. MATERIAL AND METHODS Staff requirement calculations were performed using state-of-the art procedures which take both fluctuating patient volume and individual staff shortfall rates into consideration. In a longitudinal observational study, th...

S ince the days of Florence Nightingale and Clara Barton, the scope of nursing (and its image) has changed. As Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs), Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs), medical assistants, and many other allied health professionals enter nursing school and change the image of nursing, nursing faculty have been challenged to address the needs of these students. I interviewed some o...

KEY FINDINGS Data from the National Nursing Home Survey, 2004. In 2004, 8 percent of U.S. nursing home residents had an emergency department (ED) visit in the past 90 days. Among nursing home residents with an ED visit in the past 90 days, 40 percent had a potentially preventable ED visit. Injuries from falls were the most common conditions accounting for potentially preventable ED visits by nu...

Almost 2 million Americans rely on nursing homes for care, and many require daily or near daily contact with the health care system to remain alive and functional. In October 2007, Southern California experienced a series of wildfires that burned over 500, 000 acres and caused 14 nursing homes to evacuate more than 1200 residents. In response to this event, nursing home administrators and offic...

BACKGROUND The nursing education program framework in Spain has recently been adapted and modified. This study aimed to analyze university postgraduate master'slevel nursing education during the past 21 years in Spain in terms of educational supply and demand. METHOD A retrospective, longitudinal, descriptive, and observational design was used. The educational offerings at 15 university nursi...

Pre-hospital care as a concept is subjective, multidimensional, ambiguous and associated with the health care system. Throughout the world the focus has been on the importance of burn victims, and pre-hospital emergency care is still an abstract concept. The purpose of the present study was to analyze the concept of care in the context of pre-hospital emergency. The study employed the hybrid mo...