Description
These professionals work in intensive care, emergency medicine and emergency departments, caring for critically ill people. They assess the needs of the sick person and provide different nursing care by managing their resources optimally and applying critical reasoning and judgement.
They work as members of an interdisciplinary team made up of different health professionals, and their contribution is what guarantees continuity of care to the patient. In cases where urgent-emergency intervention is required, they provide the necessary initial care with the support of referral protocols, stabilising the patient's condition before transfer to the destination hospital.
In situations of accidents with multiple victims, and especially in catastrophes, one of the main objectives must be to carry out immediate triage and carry out the first essential manoeuvres to guarantee the viability of serious patient's and maintain the operability of the care chain in order to stabilise and evacuate the affected persons.
These professionals may carry out their tasks in a primary setting (home, outpatient clinic, public transport) or in a secondary setting (transfer of a critically ill patient from a hospital that is unable to provide the most appropriate and complete treatment with the appropriate means to a hospital with the intensive care services or specialities necessary to care for this type of patient). They work as members of teams in different structures and/or components (doctors, medical transport technicians and other health technicians).
Tasks
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Centre per al desenvolupament professional Porta22
Barcelona Treball (Porta22)
Llacuna, 156-162, 08018 Barcelona
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Monday to Friday from 9 to 18 h