Nursing is the backbone of the health care delivery system. It is vital to constantly challenge the boundaries of your profession as it is important that nurses identify, develop and improve their capacities.
Emergency nurses have roles to follow, standards to guide and protocols to practice in the Emergency Department. The Health Department of the country is the leading agency in health emergency and health-risk management. The Department seeks to enhance its health-risk preparedness by initiating strategies in all health facilities ready to respond whenever emergencies or disasters occur. Given its vital role in health-risk preparation and management, it set standards, alerts and guidelines for coordinating its health sector’s response to the immediate needs of medical care by all its facilities.
Emergency nurses’ roles and workforce are significant in terms of anticipating and handling health emergencies, disasters, mass casualty incidents, epidemics, among others. They should be guided and armed with advance skills and knowledge in giving prompt care which is critical in saving lives.
Government then implements program for nurses often called Nurse Certification Program towards specialization which seeks to provide a system of competency-based training and development for nurses through the standardization of basic and specialized courses. With this, the nurses are being able to develop and hone their skills and knowledge in the profession and at the same time be recognized in their field of expertise.
