Emergency nursing is a comprehensive applied subject based on modern medicine and nursing theory, which studies all kinds of acute diseases, acute trauma, acute attack of chronic diseases and emergency nursing of critically ill patients. The emergency medical service system is an emergency network consisting of pre-hospital first aid, in-hospital emergency department diagnosis and treatment, intensive care unit and life green channels of various professions.
Emergency nursing is a part of emergency medicine. The development has experienced the intensive care unit in northern Europe in the 1950s, the rise of electronic equipment in the 1960s, the establishment of EMSS in northern Europe in the 1970s, and 1972 emergency medicine became an independent discipline. In China, EMSS was formally established in 1980, and a three-dimensional emergency network system was formed in the 1990s.
The function of emergency nursing is to expand the research scope of nursing, reflect the modern nursing level, its role in the rescue of critically ill patients and the communication between emergency nurses and critically ill patients and their families. The scope of emergency nursing is pre-hospital emergency care, in-hospital emergency care, ICU, emergency nursing staff training and scientific research.
Nightingale era
The Nightingale era was in the early Victorian era. Florence nightingale, a British nurse and statistician, was born in an Italian upper-class family. After studying nursing in Germany, I worked in a hospital in London. 1853, she became the head nurse of London Charity Hospital. During the Crimean War, Nightingale tried her best to open a hospital on the battlefield to provide medical services for soldiers.
She analyzed the mountain of military files and pointed out that in the Crimean War, the reason why British troops died was that they were infected with diseases outside the battlefield. After being injured on the battlefield, they did not get proper care and died of serious injuries, but not many people actually died on the battlefield. She even used circular charts to illustrate these materials. Nightingale and 38 nurses went to work in the Crimean Field Hospital on June1854+1October 2 1. The head nurse in the hospital is called "the angel of Crimea", also known as "the angel with lanterns".