“Three points of treatment, seven points of care.” May 12 is the 111th International Nurses Day. On May 11, the National Health and Health Commission held the third press conference of the “Everything for the People’s Health – Our Ten Years” series, introducing the development effects of nursing since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. At the meeting, the two primary nurses shared their experience and insights in their daily work.
The nurse just gave the medicine?
Xiehe Head Nurse: Nursing work towards professional development
In everyone’s impression, nursing work may often involve injections and medicines and many more. What does a real clinical nursing job look like? What aspects reflect the professionalism of nursing?
In this regard, Li Fan, executive chief nurse of the emergency department of Peking Union Medical College Hospital, said that in the whole process of disease treatment, nurses played a very important role in disease observation, medication observation and later rehabilitation guidance , also contains a lot of professional technology.
Li Fan, Executive Chief Nurse of the Emergency Department of Peking Union Medical College Hospital
Specifically, nurses must evaluate the patient’s Disease, understand the diagnosis of the patient, be familiar with the pharmacological effects of the drug, the properties of the drug and the adverse reactions of the drug, and continue to observe the patient for these. For example, the drug digoxin used by patients with heart failure, during the medication process, each nurse must observe the patient’s heart rate changes, urine output changes and visual changes in order to detect adverse drug reactions at the first time.
Li Fan said that nursing work is gradually developing towards specialization, and nursing staff use professional technology and scientific means to carry out disease treatment work. For example, tumor patients need to use chemotherapy drugs for a long time. When choosing vascular access, they should choose a drug that can be used in the medium and long term and can be resistant to drug corrosion. For example, the PICC catheter can reduce the damage to the blood vessels, and can also provide a stable intravenous infusion access for the patient, ensuring the safety of the patient to the greatest extent.
Guo Yanhong, Inspector of the National Health Commission’s Medical Administration and Hospital Administration Bureau, also introduced that the education, quality and professional service capabilities of nurses are constantly improving. The proportion of nurses with a college degree or above has increased from 2012 56% to nearly 80% in 2021.
How to judge the order of emergency treatment?
The views of nurses and patients may not be consistent
Li Fan said that when encountering emotional patients and their family members in the emergency department, Nurses are particularly able to understand that their emotions often arise from the disease itself, or a lack of understanding of the disease. When some patients arrive at the emergency room, they often hope to be treated as soon as possible, thinking that they are the most serious and urgent. But what nurses think is urgent and serious is not the same as what patients think is urgent and serious.
“We once met two trauma patients in a car accident,” Li Fan said, for example, one of the patients did have obvious trauma to the leg, and he was in a hurry. They should be treated as soon as possible; another patient who came to the clinic at the same time had no obvious trauma, but this patient had an indifferent expression and very few words. “At this time, our nurses, through professional judgment, believed that the latter was more in need of emergency treatment, so they quickly passed professional evaluation and sent the patient to the emergency room for the first time. In the end, the patient’s diagnosis was intra-abdominal hemorrhage. Through professional judgment and emergency surgery, we have saved the patient’s life.”
Li Fan said that emergency nurses need to understand the patient’s symptoms, through the judgment of vital signs and the patient’s awareness, to comprehensively It is important to evaluate the patient’s condition. It is necessary to find out the patients who most need immediate treatment from the many emergency patients, and use the fastest time to ensure the life safety of the patients.
Male head nurse has something to say:
Nursing is just a profession, and men and women complement each other’s strengths
Yes At the top, Guo Yanhong introduced that the proportion of male nurses is constantly increasing-
By the end of 2021, among the more than 5 million nurses in the country, male nurses will account for 3%, which is a lot higher than the 1.8% in 2012.
As a male nurse, Zhao Lu, the outpatient head nurse of Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, shared his personal experience.
Zhao Lu, Head Nurse of Beijing Chaoyang Hospital
Zhao Lu believes that male nurses and female nurses have their own The advantages of each are a complementary relationship. As a boy, you may have some advantages in physical strength, and at the same time, you are good at grasping the overall work of the macro; while girls are meticulous, gentle, and good at in-depth work.
In Zhao Lu’s view, nursing is just a profession, which includes both boys and girls. “As for whether boys are suitable or not, or why they should choose nursing, in fact, as far as I am concerned, nurses are not suitable for boys, but persistence. We can insist on paying for the health of patients and protecting the lives of patients. Escort, and at the same time use our refined technology to provide better support, assistance and care for patients, this is our ultimate goal.”
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