Wilderness Medicine

Wilderness medicine for nursing students

“…ilderness medicine (WM), the practice of therapeutic modalities in natural, resource-poor environments, cuts across various healthcare specializations. 1 It includes multidisciplinary team members such as physicians, advanced practice clinicians, nurses, emergency medical technicians, and trained community members, but it may still be unfamiliar to many nurses and nursing students.…”

“…WM encompasses disaster response, humanitar-ian aid, sports medicine, community outreach, military department of defense, planetary and environmental medicine, travel medicine, and expedition medicine. 1 WM involves critical thinking, creative problem solving, dynamic multidisciplinary collaboration, and resourcefulness in unprecedented ways where access to conventional healthcare resources is not available. It demands creativity and the ability to improvise, and pushes the boundaries of traditional healthcare, for example, when a lone WM professional needs to provide emergency healthcare that typically requires more people.…”