This topic brief helps emergency nurses educate caregivers on misconceptions surrounding fever and fear of severe side effects which can lead to unnecessary clinic visits, lab testing and antipyretic and antimicrobial therapy.

This infographic can be used as supplemental discharge instructions for pediatric patients who have experienced a febrile seizure.

This position statement provides an overview of the patient handoff process and reviews effective communication tools to assist with a safe patient transfer and handoff.

This position statement discusses the patient experience, what influences patient satisfaction, strategies that might assist, and the role of the emergency nurse.

This joint position statement provides a broad overview of effective prevention, identification, and early intervention including the use of screening tools.

This position statement reviews the challenges in providing palliative and end-of-life care in the ED, the impact on the emergency nurse, the importance of continuing education, and the need for further education on this topic.

This joint position statement reviews care of the patient presenting to the ED with acute pain and recognizes the need for prompt, safe and effective pain management.

This infographic provides a brief description of optimizing sepsis care in the emergency department including barriers and challenges to sepsis care as well as the human and economic impact it has on the U.S.

This pamphlet provides information for patients and families on how to recognize and manage an opioid overdose.

The “Nursing Code of Ethics: Provisions and Interpretative Statements for Emergency Nurses” functions to supplement the Emergency Nursing Scope and Standards of Practice and serves as a pledge to enumerate and codify those moral precepts that guide emergency nurses’ provision of care to patients, families, and communities, supporting nursing colleagues in the process.