Abstract: | In first part we introduced organization of emergency medical care (EMC) service and basic regulations for organization and execution of it. Emergency clinic assures 24-hour medical service at primary care level in time, when regular medical clinics don't work, exceptionally also outside of this schedule, if the patients personal doctor is not available and the nature of disease or trauma implicate instant care. Triage is one of more important and pretentious tasks of a nurse in EMC, because in most cases it is the nurse who first steps in contact with the patient. We introduced some most frequent and urgent medical conditions, which nurse has to cope with in EMC. In the first part of the research we were interested in causes for visiting EMC, in the second part of the research , which took part in prehospital units (PHU) across Slovenia, we were interested in who of the employees performs triage, how they gain additional knowledge in emergency conditions and what measures they would use on emergency patients. The first part the research showed, that infections are the leading cause of visit, then follow injuries, other pathology is less frequent. The second part of the research showed, that employees in nursing care regularly educate and they desire continuous education. It also revealed that their professional competences are frequently overwhelmed.149 participants of nursing pesonnel of PHU were included in the survey, the results of which were analysed with Microsoft Office Excel software and presented with diagram displays.
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