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Health Care Competency 2: Care Principles: Apply principles of care provision and management in an emergency situation |
• Act in different professional practice settings, considering clinical and epidemiological models; |
• Describe at the pre-emergency, emergency and post-emergency phases the essential nursing care |
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• Integrate the science/art of care as an instrument of professional interpretation; |
• Identify relevant principles of nursing practice in emergency situations |
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• Assume an ethical, humanistic and social commitment with multiprofessional health practice |
• Assume a contributively role in the delivery of health care before, during and after an emergency situation whenever necessary. |
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Competency 4: Nursing CareImplement nursing care in an emergency situation for individuals, families, groups with vulnerabilities and communities |
• Is capable of assessing and solving health problems, communicating with others, taking decisions, intervening in the work process, team working and dealing with situations in constant change; |
• Perform nursing activities according to scientific principles in an unexpected or rapidly changing situation. |
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Competency 7: Public HealthParticipate actively in health maintenance and promotion |
• Recognize health as the right for dignifying life conditions, guaranteeing a comprehensive care, with preventive and curative actions directed towards individuals and collectives, demanded in all levels of the health system; • Plan and implement health education and promotion programs, considering the specificity of different social groups and different life processes, health, work and illness; |
• Recognize community health issues related to the impact of emergencies on water, food supplies, shelter and protection of displaced persons (as a consequence of disasters) •Utilize resources available for health promotion and health education in an emergency situation |
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Decision making Competency 1: Ethical and Legal Issues, and Decision-Making: Demonstrate an understanding of the challenges to ethical and legal decision-making, critical thinking and care prioritization in conflict and emergency situation. |
• Respect the ethic, legal and humanistic principles of the profession; |
Apply an ethical and nationally approved framework to support decision-making and prioritization needed in an emergency situation • Apply critical thinking and problem-solving skills in planning the essential nursing care for individuals, families, special groups at the pre-emergency, emergency and post-emergency phases |
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• Manage the nurse work process attending principles of Ethics and Bioethics, with resolutivity to the individual and to the public in all instances of care; |
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• Provide nursing care according to the individual, family and different community groups necessities; |
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Communication: Competency 6: Communication and Interpersonal RelationshipsApply principles of communication and interpersonal relationships in an emergency situation |
• Integrate nursing actions with the multiprofessional ones; |
• Consult with other health care professionals and relevant organizations/agencies when individual or group needs fall outside the scope of nursing practice |
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Leadership: Competency 5: Safety and Security: Apply nursing techniques appropriate to the maintenance of a safe environment |
• Uses instruments to achieve the quality of nursing and health care provision; |
• Ensure the safe administration of treatment and their therapeutics. |
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• Assess the safety and security issues for self, the response team and the victims in an emergency situation. |
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Management: Competency 3: Needs Assessment and planningCarry out a relevant and systematic safety and needs assessment during and after an emergency for self, the response team and the victims |
• Understands the health policy in the context of social policies, recognizing epidemiological profiles of the populations; |
• Identify main elements in country profile useful for emergency preparedness and managing the response. |
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• Is capable of assessing and solving health problems, communicating with others, taking decisions, intervening in the work process, team working and dealing with situations in constant change; |
• Contribute to damage assessment and needs analysis process in the immediate aftermath of the impact and in later stages. |
