Analysis of Nursing Roles and Teamwork in Mass Casualty Scenarios

This report examines the pivotal role of registered nurses during mass casualty incidents, using a school shooting scenario to illustrate key responsibilities. It highlights the importance of cooperation with team members, including the Medical Superintendent, Chief Nursing Officer, and transport/security officers. The report discusses ethical dilemmas faced by nurses, particularly when dealing with injured children, and emphasizes the need for sound judgment and quick decision-making. It underscores the significance of effective leadership, training, and collaboration in providing healthcare facilities and mitigating the psychological impact of such events. The conclusion reiterates the critical functions of nurses in mass casualty situations, including patient care and teamwork.

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Contents
Introduction...........................................................................................................................................2
Cooperation with Team members..........................................................................................................2
Medical Superintendent.....................................................................................................................2
Chief Nursing Officer........................................................................................................................2
Transport and security officers..........................................................................................................3
Ethical dilemmas during emergency......................................................................................................3
Conclusion.............................................................................................................................................3
References.............................................................................................................................................5

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Introduction
Nurses play versatile roles in their profession, during an emergency role of the nurses become
more reliable towards their healthcare services and facilities. This report discusses the role a
registered nurse is required to play during mass causality incident with other team members
in a medical team (AbuAlRub, 2004). Incident of shooting in a school resulted injury to many
children and teachers. Some children were seriously injured and many were disturbed due the
incident in deep, here nurses are responsible to cure the injured children and teachers, and
remove their mental stress and threat from the incident.
Cooperation with Team members
Disaster is a cataclysmic instance that results to enormous loss and destruction. Incident of
the damage can be natural or man-made, here the incident of the shooting in the school was
man-made and that created loss to some lives and injured the children, hence emergency
medical team with the help of registered nurses needs to perform treatment and cure activities
(Kim & Ogcheol, 2020).
Three important members in the medical team for helping the registered nurses are
Medical Superintendent
Chairman or medical superintendent officer leads the team with effective strategy during an
emergency, team handling the critical or emergency issues require effective motivation to
handle their stress and netter support from the top management is very helpful to reduce the
stress and operate the functions very well.

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Chief Nursing Officer
Chief nursing officer is an experienced registered nurse training to handle the critical or
accidental emergencies with effective decision-making and leadership techniques. Registered
nurses can take effective experienced guidelines and leadership to cure the patients and
develop living status of the people. Experienced nurses are able to deal the nurses team with
effective strategies to manage the critical issues with the health care and tragedy affect the
mental level of the nurse hence chief nurses officer are very helpful to train the registered and
assistant nurses during emergencies (Start, Culley, & Tavakoli, 2018).
Transport and security officers
Transporting officers and security officers play important role by helping the nurses to
transfer the injured patients from incident to a safe place or hospital. Transferring is very
important for the patient to get effective treatment; hence, registered nurses made effective
collaboration with these securities officer to perform emergency transfer of the patients.
Ethical dilemmas during emergency
During an accident at mass level, nurses face frustration and emotional challenges to handle
the nursing and patient health care series and in the incident given in the case scenario,
shooting incident in the school affected the nurses in deep because injured children were of
small age hence it was very challenging to cure them with the care and affection. Nurses in
the ethical manner need to order sound judgements and effective decision with quick
applicability suitable for the health and development of the patients (Ashton, 2016).
Conclusion
This report discuss the role of a registered nurse during the Mass Causality Incident, and their
performance with effective cooperation with other team members like Medical

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Superintendent, Chief Nursing Officer, and other medical staff members to handle the
incident, and provide health care facilities to cure them .

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References
AbuAlRub, R. F. (2004). Job stress, job performance, and social support among hospital
nurses. Journal of nursing scholarship , 36(1), 73-78.
Ashton, K. S. (2016). Teaching nursing students about terminating professional relationships,
boundaries, and social media. Nurse education today, 37, 170-172.
Kim, J., & Ogcheol, L. (2020). Effects of a simulation-based education program for nursing
students responding to mass casualty incidents: A pre-post intervention study. Nurse
education today, 104297.
Start, E. J., Culley, J. M., & Tavakoli, A. (2018). Impressions of Participants in a Chemical
Mass Casualty Exercise.