Nurses' training in prehospital care

Nurses' training in prehospital care.

The performance of nurses in prehospital care (PHC) assumes acquiring specific competences. The objectives of the present study were to verify nurses' opinion on theoretical knowledge and nursing skills necessary for the practice in pre-hospital setting and to analyze them according to their clinical practice. In this descriptive study, the opinion of nurses, from public pre-hospital care servi...

Training doctors in prehospital care: the West Midlands (UK) approach.

There is no specific structured training programme for doctors working in prehospital care in the United Kingdom. In the West Midlands (UK) a structured supervised programme has been devised, which recruits medical undergraduates and provides an educational programme and practical experience leading to the successful completion of the Diploma in Immediate Medical Care and the status of an indep...

Training nurses to care for the elderly.

Caring for the elderly is so wide a subject that to talk about every avenue open to the nurse would be quite unprofitable in a short article. I therefore wish to concentrate on the' hospital service which tends to treat elderly people who are either very ill or have social problems. There exists great confusion in the medical and nursing professions regarding the true definition of the term ger...

Incorporating prehospital care into emergency medicine residency training.

Paediatric prehospital care: postal survey of paramedic training managers.

BACKGROUND The process of prehospital care continues to develop in the UK. AIMS To evaluate the availability of important paediatric resuscitation equipment in emergency ambulances and the extent of paramedic training in paediatric emergency medicine. METHODS Postal survey of paramedic training managers. RESULTS Completed questionnaires were returned by 41 (93%) training managers. No trus...