In June 1999 an intercollegiate working party of Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, British Association of Accident and Emergency Medicine (BAEM), British Association of Paediatric Surgeons, Faculty of Accident and Emergency Medicine, Royal College of Nursing (RCN), and Royal College of General Practitioners was established. Terms of reference were to review emergency services for c...

Authors: 2011 ENA Emergency Nursing Resources Development Committee: Mary Naccarato, MSN, RN, CEN, CCNS, Sherry Leviner, MSN, RN, CEN, Jean Proehl, MN, RN, CEN, CPEN, FAEN, Susan Barnason, PhD, RN, APRN, CEN, CCRN, CNS, CS, Carla Brim, MN, RN, CEN, CNS, Melanie Crowley, MSN, RN, CEN, MICN, Cathleen Lindauer, MSN, RN, CEN, Andrew Storer, DNP, RN, ACNP, CRNP, FNP, and Jennifer Williams, MSN, RN, ...

This qualitative study aims to characterize nurses' actions in care for children during emergency situations, at a pediatric unit from a hospital in the interior of São Paulo State, Brazil, by means of semi structured interviews with eight nurses. The interview included questions about professional profile and, next, the research question. The analysis was guided by Bardin's content analysis (1...

The Pediatric Assessment Triangle (PAT) has become the cornerstone for the Pediatric Education for Prehospital Professionals course, sponsored by the American Academy of Pediatrics. This concept for emergency assessment of children has been taught to more than 170,000 health care providers worldwide. It has been incorporated into most standardized American life support courses, including the Pe...

Determining the priority of attention in an Emergency Room (ER) has always been a difficult issue. Priority is determined with a simple triage system as people arrive at the hospital. It is important to establish how long they can wait for treatment. In order to obtain the best assessment of patients' conditions, we built a Nursing Software for Emergency Triage (NSET). The objective of this wor...

BACKGROUND Older people resident in care homes have a limited life expectancy and approximately two-thirds have limited mental capacity. Despite initiatives to reduce unplanned hospital admissions for this population, little is known about the involvement of emergency services in supporting residents in these settings. METHODS This paper reports on a longitudinal study that tracked the involv...

Introduction: The improvement of technology has increased noise levels in hospital Wards to higher than international standard levels (35-45 dB). Higher noise levels than the maximum level result in patient’s instability and dissatisfaction. Moreover, it will have serious negative effects on the staff’s health and the quality of their services. The purpose of this survey is to analyze the leve...

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Emergency Nurses Association, this article describes 3 most enduring and impactful policy initiatives in organization’s history. These were identified through a comprehensive review articles published Journal Nursing as well other publications including position statements press releases. The top issues throughout Association’s history provision care for v...