A local professor spoke about disaster management to an audience of international critical care medicine physicians and nurses in January.
Registered Nurse Linda Carl, who is a member of the nursing faculty at Penn State Mont Alto, lectured at the 35th annual Critical Care Congress which ran from Jan. 6 to 11 in San Francisco. The Society of Critical Care Medicine oversees the practices and standard of care of people who work in intensive care units internationally.
Carl, who resides in West Virginia, was appointed by the society to teach disaster management at this year's congress. She also spoke about hospital mass casualty disaster management, focusing on the knowledge and skills necessary for heath care professionals to meet a disaster-induced surge in patients who need critical care support. As a nurse for three decades in various fields of nursing, Carl shares with her students at PSMA the many things they can do as a nurse.
"Nursing is a wide open field," she said. "Nursing used to be considered a technician-type field, but over the last 30 years nursing has become an independent science — the nurse now works as a prominent member of the health care team. If you put in the effort, the sky's the limit."
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