There has been a Red alert at the local General Hospital, which has a major accident unit. A numbers of people have been involved in car crashes on the motorway. The Emergency & Accident department has dispatched the Major Accident Team to the scene of the accident.
The paramedics’ main role is to bring the nurses and doctors to the accident scene and deliver patients to the A/E department. On the other hand, nurses and doctors would stabilise the patients. They will work to together as a team and deliver prompt and sufficient care to the patients. These are the healthcare professional, which require extensive training like a doctor. On one hand, there are also the student doctors who are keen to learn more about the accident …show more content…
In an emergency situation like this, the nurse, paramedics and physicians the ambulance safety officers will attempt to prevent any unauthorised personnel out. The nurses and paramedics will assess the situation in calm and fashion matter. On the other hand, they will have to check each injured patient while paying close to any safety hazards. While the doctor arrives, the nurses will go each patient and provide and following the airway, respiration and circulation plan to stabilise patients, making sure the patients does move to prevent further trauma to the spinal cord and neck. If there is no pulse sign, the paramedics will provide immediate CPR to the patients who are not breathing. The paramedics will gather important information from the less injured and bystanders at the picture of the scene. In addition, the nurses will also check the vital signs of the patients. Their focus will be to prevent early trauma mortality. The doctors will make it at the scene of the accident a few minutes afterwards, he will accept the report from the nurses, try to stabilise the patients and control external …show more content…
In other words, nurses are part of a team such as doctors, midwives, administrator physiotherapist, and pharmacists, who have a common purpose to care and provide for the patient. They utilise resources to maximise the performance of patient care. Healthcare professionals work well together, might have low level stress in the workplace. The point of supervising in nursing is to provide professional support, reduced clinic risks and errors and to maintaining quality improvements. According to the NHS, “Team work skills are key to you working successfully as a member of your clinical team, with the wider multi-disciplinary team, and with patients/clients and carers. Starting work with a new team and in a new setting is challenging and complex at any point in your career, but is especially so when you are making the transition from being a student to your new role as a registered health practitioner. This unit will help to support you in developing the skills that you need to become a confident and effective team member.” (flying start NHS)