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This document discusses nursing management of patients with orthopedic fractures resulting from motor vehicle accidents in the emergency department. It emphasizes that emergency department nurses must have knowledge of injury mechanisms, fracture classifications, and typical treatments. Nurses should also create care plans based on nursing diagnoses to determine appropriate nursing interventions, which should begin in the emergency department rather than waiting until admission to an inpatient unit. The article provides information to help emergency nurses develop nursing care plans and discusses seven common nursing diagnoses for these orthopedic injury patients.

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This document discusses nursing management of patients with orthopedic fractures resulting from motor vehicle accidents in the emergency department. It emphasizes that emergency department nurses must have knowledge of injury mechanisms, fracture classifications, and typical treatments. Nurses should also create care plans based on nursing diagnoses to determine appropriate nursing interventions, which should begin in the emergency department rather than waiting until admission to an inpatient unit. The article provides information to help emergency nurses develop nursing care plans and discusses seven common nursing diagnoses for these orthopedic injury patients.

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TITLE:Emergency department nursing management of patients with

orthopedic fractures resulting from motor vehicle accidents.


AUTHORS: Herron DG, Nance J.
REFERENCE: NursClin North Am. 1990 Mar;25(1):71-83.
SITE: Pubmed.gov
 
SUMMARY 
Nursing management of patients with orthopedic fractures resulting from
motor vehicle accidents is a frequent challenge for nurses in an emergency
department setting. The nurse must have knowledge of the mechanics of
injury, the classification of the resulting fracture types, and the usual medical
interventions. In addition, emergency department nurses should follow plans
of care that are based on nursing diagnoses so that appropriate nursing
interventions can be determined and consistently provided. Initiation of these
care plans must not be delayed until the patient is admitted to an inpatient
nursing unit, but should be begun in the emergency unit setting. This article
presents information that the emergency room nurse needs in order to make
plans for nursing care, and discusses seven nursing diagnoses that are
almost always appropriate for patients seen in the emergency department
who are experiencing orthopedic fractures resulting from motor vehicle
accidents.
 
 
• NURSING IMPLICATIONS
• NURSING RESARCH
➢ The topic already covered the nursing managements to the patients with
orthopedic fractures who suffered from vehicular accidents, but more research
should be done other accidents that happens in day to day activities,
 
• NURSING EDUCATION
➢ The emergency department nurses should follow plans of care that are based
on nursing diagnoses so that appropriate nursing interventions can be
determined and consistently provided to the clients. This article presents
information that the emergency room nurse needs in order to make plans for
nursing care.
 
• NURSING PRACTICE 
➢ As a nurse, we should have a knowledge on how to manage a certain
situation like the said condition above. Being in the emergency department,
nurses must be alert and knowledgeable enough to perform a certain
procedure so tht the client will also receive an appropriate intervention in
alleviating his/ her condition.
 
 
 
PERSONAL INSIGHT
 
I agree to what the author said because as a nurse it is not just the courage is
what we need but also the knowledge and prowess because we are handling
one person’s life ,I learned that panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.
We should always be ready on whatever kind of situation we may have on our
shift in the hospital. Our duty is to give care on our patients, but being in the
Emergency Room we already knew that there were lots of patients with
different complaints, our responsibility is to deliver the first aid starting from
admission and so on.If we follow what the author was saying in his article, we
can function and do our duties and responsibilities accordingly.

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