Informative Speech Outline
Carolyn Strickland
COMS 101
September 21, 2015
Organization: Topical pattern
Audience analysis: My audience consists of two white males and one white female, all of whom are students enrolled in the local community college. Their current fields of study include the following: criminal justice, fire/science/paramedic, and pre-nursing/education. Each of them comes from a Christian home with either a parent or close relative already working in the medical field.
Topic: Nursing, specifically Emergency Nursing presents vast opportunities for edifying God values of compassion, love, impartiality and hospitality with patients, families, and co-workers that present to the Emergency Department.
Rhetorical Purpose:
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What do you hear? Chaos? Confusion? No, it is the music heard daily as you take walk in the shoes of an Emergency Room nurse.
II. Motive for Listening
Emergency nursing is a specialized area of nursing overflowing rewarding opportunities. Whether you choose a career of being a nurse, a paramedic/firefighter, or police officer, people will always be sick, injured, or in danger. Each of these jobs is constantly seeking trained professionals. III. Credibility Statement
Since obtaining my Registered Nurse license in 1992, I have practiced full-time in the Emergency Department. Prior to becoming a nurse, I volunteered for three years as an Emergency Medical Technician with Greensville Volunteer Rescue Squad. In addition, my parents were both charter and life members of the Brunswick Volunteer Rescue Squad. Therefore, through formal research in conjunction with a lifetime of personal experiences, I have gained and continue to gain a deeper understanding with appreciation for the self-sacrificing compassionate care involved with the career path for being an ER nurse.
IV. Purpose or Thesis Statement
Emergency nursing extends beyond the basic nursing skills, concepts and reasoning taught in the classroom; ER nurses must demonstrate critical thinking skills while providing unbiased, compassionate care while collaborating with other professional disciplines.
V. Preview
After completing my bachelor’s degree at Florida State University in the fall of 1997, I began my career at a small hospital in Largo, Florida. I started on a thirty eight bed cardiac/telemetry unit. I had the fortunate opportunity to orient with a seasoned nurse who loved her career in nursing. She was an enthusiastic preceptor that not only educated me on the tasks of nursing but inspired and introduced me to critical care and critical thinking. I spent the next three years at this hospital working in the Coronary Care Unit until deciding to become a travel nurse and see the country. I began travel nursing with my best friend and we worked in Florida, Washington D.C., New York and Denver. At all of these locations we worked in the intensive care unit. Each experience provided a different population and vast new experiences.
The next step is to determine the nature of the emergency, then stabilized the patient's condition, and then administer the right procedures, while en route to the hospital. Treatment for the patients depends on what level of training and certification the EMT has gone through. First responders are only certified to care for a sick or injured person. A basic EMT can give CPR, control any bleeding, treat shock victims, apply bandages, splint fractures, and administer an automatic defibrillation. EMTs are also trained to handle emotionally unstable patients and heart attack, poisoning, and burn patients. EMT-Intermediate are trained to start an IV, or use a manual defibrillator for patients that are going into cardiac arrest. EMT-Paramedic are certified to be able to perform more intensive treatments, while working in close radio contact with the doctor. (Careers In Focus: Medical Technicians 76) EMT-Paramedics are qualified to give intravenous drugs, use EKGs, put in breathing tubes, and use any modern medical technology. (Careers In Emergency Medical Services
This study will include nurses that are currently working in emergency department with at least six months of experience with varying ages and levels of education. The emergency nurses would be required to complete a formal training on understanding the Emergency Severity Index (ESI) algorithm and the complexities in accurately assigning a triage level. The level of competence of the nurses will be increased if they participate in the online educational opportunities. In addition to the formal course, an online acuity level triage designation course will also be implemented. The ED leadership team will be instrumental in encouraging staff to participate so they are adequately prepared to function as a triage
Ethos describes the credibility of the author and explains the importance of the topic, to engage readers to care about the issue. Schwarz makes use of this strategy through his reiteration of his experiences working as a nurse in the emergency department, as well as through his experiences at nursing conferences over the years. He first intrigues the reader by describing the traumatic event of a motorcycle accident during one of his shifts. As he waited for the patient to arrive he remembers being flooded with the “images of the mangled cyclist” filling his head, and a “cold sweat” breaking out on his skin (Schwarz, 2005).
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