Australasian emergency care
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Australas Emerg Care · May 2018
Case ReportsTo stitch or not to stitch: A case review: Auricular lacerations involving cartilage management in the emergency department.
Patients with Parkinsonism are at risk of frequent falls by virtue of their unstable gait. Auricular lacerations involving the cartilage are usually managed by Plastics Surgeons. Patient Mr Jones (an alias for this case review) had sustained a significant full thickness auricular laceration that was complicated by a past medical history with Parkinson's disease. This case review summarises a nurse practitioner's (NP) clinical decision-making processes and the experience in the management and treatment of auricular cartilage lacerations in the emergency department.
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Australas Emerg Care · May 2018
Indonesian emergency nurses' preparedness to respond to disaster: A descriptive survey.
As frontline hospital staff, emergency nurses must be prepared to respond in disaster situations. While many disasters have befallen Indonesia, no available studies document disaster preparedness of nurses in this region. This study aimed to assess disaster preparedness among Indonesian emergency nurses, as well as examine factors that affected disaster preparedness in this group. ⋯ These findings can be used as a basis to develop education programmes aimed at improving preparedness for disaster among Indonesian emergency nurses.