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Table 3 SA Ordered Situational Map for EMS In Iran

From: The trend of change in the role of pre-hospital emergency medical services in Iran’s healthcare system: a situational analysis

Individual Human Elements/Actors

Nonhuman Elements/Actants

Nurses

LPN

Patients

Faculty

Hospital managers

Nursing managers

Faculty in nursing & EMS

Health system policymakers

Development of nursing knowledge

Advances in Medical Sciences

Medical equipment

Medications and treatment methods

Increase library resources

Development of medical specialization

Specialized expectations in bed

Collective Human Elements/Actors

Major Issues/Debates (Usually Contested)in EMS

Ministry of Health (Vezarat-e Behdari)in the past (1952–1986),

Ministry of Health and Medical Education Since 1986,

Iranian Nursing Association (1921–1978),

Nursing Board (since 1991),

Health Department and Treatment of the National Military System (IRGC)

The Deputy of Nursing

Iranian Nursing Organization (INO) (2003)

Iranian Medical Emergencies Association (2000)

Medical Emergencies Board (1999 till now)

Emergency Information Centers (1975)

Pre-hospital emergency centers and incident management 1357 until now)

Emergency Organization of the country (since 2015)

Red Crescent Relief and Rescue Organization of the country Red 1929 until now

Fire Department (1921 until now)

Shortage Of EMS

Higher Education In EMS

Establishment Iranian Nursing Organization (INO) for standardization practice

The wandering of the field of emergency medicine in the organization chart of the faculties (uncertainty of the field in the nursing or paramedical faculty)

Mechanisms of presence of women in the field of emergency medicine

Lack of leveling of care among emergency medical forces

Not having a medical emergency representative in the country's nursing system organization

Continuous and non-continuous undergraduate studies in emergency medicine

Air medical services

Economic Elements

Sociocultural/Symbolic Elements

Sales of Iranian oil and improvement of financial situation in the years (1340 to 1351)

Private sector investment in the health system

Village and urban population

Cultural revolution in the country's higher education system

Women's participation in society

woman enter the EMS profession

Economic Elements in health care system

Political Elements

the creation of educational infrastructure in the field of nursing and LPN

employ faculty members in nursing

the quantitative growth of nursing

Recruitment of academic staff in nursing (1983 so far), health management in disasters and medical emergencies and emergency medicine

Increase absorption in emergency medical admissions

Setting up private ambulances (2013 so far)

Iran's membership in the World Health Organization

The royal family's support for the role of EMS in society

Islamic Revolution(1)

The Iraq - Iran War (1978–1989)

Establishment of Islamic Azad University

Temporal Elements

Related Discourses (Historical, Narrative, and/or Visual)

The Iraq - Iran War (1978–1989)

The Diminished Involvement Of Women And Volunteers In Nursing (1961–1980)

The Active Presence Of Affluent And Sometimes Middle-Class Women In The Social

The Engagement Of Women, Especially From The Low And Middle-Class Class In Social Activity

Implicated/Silent Actors

need of population for health services