Nursing Assessment and Management in Multiple Incidents in Emergency Clinic at the University Clinical Centre of Kosovo

Abstract

Multiple incidents are a large number of casualties caused in a short period of time, usually as a result of a single event such as a military plane accident, hurricane, flood, earthquake, road traffic accident or armed attack that does not exceed the logistics capabilities of emergency clinics. Developing countries including Kosovo are at high risk due to many factors such as: population growth in urban areas, climate change, technology, road traffic accidents, earthquake, etc. All of these cause losses of life. The aim of this paper is to analyze nursing assessment and management to multiple incidents at the Emergency Clinic at the University Clinical Centre of Kosovo (UCCK) and to evaluate nurses' knowledge of their readiness to handle these cases. To conduct this topic, a quantitative method was used where I conducted surveys with 40 nurses from this centre. In addition to the quantitative method, desk research has also been used, a method for conducting desk research and reviewing previous research findings. As a result of this research paper is found that nurses have sufficient confidence in their knowledge to manage all emergency cases at Emergency Clinic at the UCCK and it is considered that the workload of nurses at Emergency Clinic at the UCCK does not affect the most professional evaluation of multiple incidents.