Paramedic And Triage Nurse In Nursing Case Study

I am currently studying the Bachelor of Health Sciences Degree to gain a competitive grade point average (GPA) to get an internal transfer into the Bachelor of Paramedic Science Degree and become a paramedic. Paramedic are health care professionals known as pre-hospital team leaders who provide out of hospital care to patients (Health care Act (SA), 2018). They respond rapidly to emergency and assess patient and provide medical services and care for the patient until hospital arrival. Paramedic are employed by the ambulance services, govern and organisations and hospitals. For the purpose of this essay the focus will be on both paramedic and triage nurse and will analyse the collaborative work as an interdisciplinary team within the emergency department.
While a registered nurse is a graduate who have successfully passed a state board examination. Furthermore, an individual with the appropriate development of educational preparation and competence for practise who have been registered and licenced to practise nursing in Australia (nurse in Australia, 2018). Triage nurse are also known as emergency room (ER) nurse who is patients first point of contact on their visit within the ED.
They asses patient on their arrival and categorised patients priories based on their conditions and medical assistance needs. Triaging is the prioritizing process used within the ED setting to assess individual based on their injury/illness severity, symptoms, vitual signs using the triage scale (Ebrahimi, 2016). A triage scale is a scale used by triage nurse to organise patient care (Duro et al. 2010). Within the nursing profession it is very essential that triage nurse develops critical thinking, evaluate and decision making skills due to high quality of decision making (Noon,