Indian Nursing Council on 28th November, 2023 has issued the Indian Nursing Council (Nurse Practitioner in Emergency and Trauma Care – Postgraduate Residency Program) Regulations, 2022. The Emergency and Trauma Care NP program prepares registered B.Sc. nurses for advanced practice roles as clinical experts, managers, educators and consultants leading to M.Sc. Nursing (Nurse Practitioner in Emergency and Trauma Care).
On completion of the program, the NP will be able to:
- Assume responsibility and accountability to provide competent care to patients with trauma and non-trauma related emergencies and appropriate family care in tertiary care centres;
- Demonstrate clinical competence/expertise in providing emergency and trauma care which includes emergency assessment, diagnostic reasoning, management and complex monitoring;
- Apply theoretical, pathophysiological and pharmacological principles and evidence base in implementing therapies/interventions in emergency and trauma care;
- Assess and participate in treating patients with life threatening and limb threatening illnesses/injuries to stabilize and restore patient’s health and minimize or manage complications independently or collaboratively as a part of emergency and trauma care team;
- Collaborate with other health care professionals in the emergency and trauma care team, across the continuum of emergency care.
