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Emergency nursing is a specialty within the field of professional nursing focusing on the care of patients who require prompt medical attention to avoid long-term disability or death. In addition to addressing "true emergencies," emergency nurses increasingly care for people who are unwilling or unable to get primary medical care elsewhere and ...
The Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) is an international professional organization representing emergency nursing.Consisting of nearly 50,000 members, ENA addresses issues relevant to emergency care, publishes professional guidelines, provides education for emergency nurses and issues a peer-reviewed journal.
Background. The Emergency Severity Index (ESI) is a five-level emergency department triage algorithm, initially developed in 1998 by emergency physicians Richard Wurez and David Eitel. [1] It was previously maintained by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) but is currently maintained by the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA).
J. Emerg. Nurs. The Journal of Emergency Nursing is the official peer-reviewed journal of the Emergency Nurses Association, covering emergency nursing. It's published on behalf of the association by Elsevier and was established in 1983. The journal is abstracted and indexed in CINAHL, Science Citation Index Expanded, and Scopus.
An analysis by the Washington Post last December of California hospice data found that the proportion of patients who were discharged alive from the health service rose by about 50 percent between 2002 and 2012. Profit per patient quintupled to $1,975 in California, the newspaper reported.
Advanced trauma life support ( ATLS) is a training program for medical providers in the management of acute trauma cases, developed by the American College of Surgeons. Similar programs exist for immediate care providers such as paramedics. The program has been adopted worldwide in over 60 countries, [2] sometimes under the name of Early ...
International Emergency Nursing is a peer-reviewed nursing journal covering emergency healthcare. It is published quarterly by Elsevier and is an official publication of the European Society of Emergency Nurses and the Faculty of Emergency Nursing. [1] It was established in 1993 as Accident and Emergency Nursing [2] and obtained its current ...
Emergency Nurse is an English monthly professional magazine which covers research and clinical articles relevant to the practice of emergency nursing.