Emergency Nursing From Yesterday to Today

When it is looked through historical process of emergency implementation, it is met that the primitive communities which were draped with leaf of wound site and person who is freezing was taken into the cave. It has been expressions that in the 1700's ambulance and first aid team were constituted for transport of persons who were injuried in war. It is identify that in the 1800's emergency care was began to be popular related to an increase on number of patients and triage concept was celebrates. When it was looked through historical process, it was founded numerous facts in the many areas such as resuscitation standarts, care of rape victims, prehospital care, children care, care of the elderly and psychiatric patient. Emergency nursing was began to considere after 1960 in Turkey. It is emphasized that the nurses who are working in the emergency units must have more different characteristics than the nurses and definitely trained in this area who are working other units.