Emergency and Trauma Nursing

Abstract

The regular increasing demand for emergency care is a global phenomenon. Nurses in both developed and developing world face differing but significant challenges in delivering timely emergency care. Designated emergency department began in the early 1970s and functioned mainly as an after-hours patient entry point where a ward nurse came to monitor the patient’s condition until the arrival of a doctor. However, the increasing number of patients presenting to EDs, demand for more emergency care advances in technology and improvements in resuscitation procedures led to the need to expand services and create a specialty areas for the delivery of emergency care.