A emergency nursing association nurses group (ENA) of USA visited the Emergency Department of the University Hospital of Toledo, dependent on the Health Service of Castile-La Mancha, in a visit to different hospitals in Spain to know the work of nursing professionals and the protocols in this area of care in health centers.
Nursing professionals in the emergency department, as well as supervisors of special service areas and of Unity, María Ferrero and María Teresa Villaplanarespectively; They gave a presentation on this area of the University Hospital of Toledo and, later, divided it into several groups In order not to interfere with the treatment activity, they were able to see the pit areaobservation, triage, consultations, pediatrics, traumatology and diagnostic imaging.
The delegation, composed of 19 people and led by the president of the Association, Chris Dellinger, was interested in the work of nursing professionals, patient circuits, action protocols, the distribution of spaces, computer systems and pharmaceutical distribution.
The American Emergency Nursing Association, which cIt has more than 50,000 associates, organizing a visit to hospital centers every year from different countries around the world in order to know how different emergency services work and to be able to propose improvements in their health centers.
So, this year they are visiting different hospitals in Spain, among which they have chosen the University Hospital of Toledo.
The Emergency Department of the University Hospital of Toledo has an area greater than 6,400 square meters. It has 30 boxes, 27 observation beds, a treatment area made up of 26 chairs and ten stretchers, three consultation rooms for triage – classification of patients according to the degree of pathology – and four REA resuscitation stations.
It is completed by the diagnostic imaging area, equipped with a scanner, two digital radiology rooms and an ultrasound machine. The hospital’s emergency department treats an average of 561 patients per day.
