Key result
Critical care nursing in battlefield environments requires a vast knowledge of trauma processes and a wide variety of cognitive and skill-focused competencies to provide appropriate casualty care.
Provides an overview of the competencies and skills required for critical care nursing in austere battlefield environments.
Supports competency-based training for military critical care nurses; leaves open prospective validation of frameworks and outcomes.
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this article is to present an overview of critical care nursing in current battlefield healthcare environments. The various levels of tactical combat casualty care are described with emphasis on those levels in which military critical care nurses are practicing. RESULTS: Results of a critical care medical record review is presented to describe mechanism of injury, critical care diagnoses, length of stay, ventilator days, procedures, and complications. CONCLUSION: A vast knowledge of various critical care and trauma processes as well as a wide variety of nursing skills are required to provide appropriate care for these casualties. Critical care nursing competencies, cognitive and skill-focused, required to practice in this environment are described.
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Kimberly K. Smith (2008) conducted a review in Battlefield casualties. Critical care nursing in battlefield environments was evaluated on Mechanism of injury, critical care diagnoses, length of stay, ventilator days, procedures, and complications. Critical care nursing in battlefield environments requires a vast knowledge of trauma processes and a wide variety of cognitive and skill-focused competencies to provide appropriate casualty care.
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