PECULIARITIES OF EDUCATION APPLICANT’S TRAINING IN THE SPECIALTY 223 “NURSING”, SPECIALIZATION 223.02 “EMERGENCY MEDICINE” IN THE ORGANIZATION AND PROVISION OF EMERGENCY MEDICAL CARE IN CASE OF MASS CASUALTIES

Abstract

Abstract. I. Horbachevsky Ternopil National Medical University of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine has developed and tested a system of teaching the discipline “Emergency Medicine and Emergency Medical Care in Mass Casualties” for education applicants in the specialty 223 “Nursing”, specialization 223.02 “Emergency Medicine”. At the first stage, students gain knowledge of the general characteristics of emergencies, their health consequences and the basics of response (14 hours of practical training). An important document for mastering this part of the discipline is the Civil Protection Code, which provides clear definitions of basic terms related to emergencies, their classification and general characteristics, the concept of a unified state civil protection system, its functioning regimes, and the main tasks of the emergency medical care system during emergency situations. In the second stage (28 hours of practical training), students learn the basics of treatment and evacuation support, how to organize the first stage of evacuation near the accident place, conduct primary medical sorting, provide medical care at sorting grounds, and prepare victims for evacuation. The discipline culminates in complex exercises with rescuers and the National Police. The proposed system has positively proved itself among students, is logical with a consistent mastery of the basic provisions of emergency medicine and disaster medicine and ends with comprehensive practical training. In the future, it is advisable to include a theoretical block with general issues of response for independent study and increase the number of practical scenarios with a mass casualty.