Emergency Action Plan

What is emergency nursing?

Emergency nursing involves the episodic care of people with physical and/or psychological health problems. These health problems:

 (1) may result from injury and/or illness,

(2) are usually acute, and

(3) require further, often immediate, investigation and/or intervention. Emergency nurses care for people of all ages and work with conditions that may affect any—or, indeed, all—of the body’s systems. Often (though not always), patients requiring emergency care are
physiologically (or psychologically) unstable, have complex health and other
needs and requires intensive nursing care. As with all nursing care, emergency