Other Resources and Tools

Emergency Nurse Retention

This executive synopsis describes the challenges surrounding nurse retention and offers evidence-based strategies to help retain nurses.

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Position Statements

Emergency Nurse Onboarding

This position statement evaluates the emergency nurse onboarding process, the importance of a tailored new graduate and experienced transitioning nurse program and provides recommendations for key components of a comprehensive orientation.

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Position Statements

Emergency Nurse Duty Hours and Patient Safety

This position statement reviews the challenges associated with the variety of nurse duty hours or shifts, the related consequences of working for multiple employers, and the potential impact to patient safety, the emergency nurse's health and the work environment.

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Topic Briefs

Emergency Department Throughput

This topic brief reviews multiple challenges encountered during the care, treatment, and disposition of ED patients, and offer meaningful workflow practice changes and innovative strategies to help improve patient throughput. 

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Toolkits

Emergency Department Safety NET: Naloxone Education Toolkit

The ENA Naloxone Education Toolkit (NET) is designed for emergency nurses and providers, and includes the necessary resources to educate patients and family members about opioid overdose.

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Other Resources and Tools

Emergency Department Productivity: Accounting for Boarded Patients

This executive synopsis provides the rationale and tools for hospitals to keep the calculation of caregiver hours for emergency department (ED) patients separate from caregiver hours for boarded patients. It also provides various accounting methodologies to account for additional labor needed to care for boarded patients. 

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Position Statements

Emergency Department Care for Prepubescent Patients Who Have Been Sexually Abused

This joint position statement provides a brief overview of caring for prepubescent pediatric sexual abuse patients in the ED.

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Position Statements

Emergency Care for Patients During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period: Emergency Nurses Association and Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses Joint Position Statement

This joint position statement reviews the various issues and challenges of caring for patients during pregnancy and the postpartum period, identifies high-risk and life-threatening obstetric complications, and emphasizes the need for further education and training.

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Infographics

ED Readiness For Children Infographic

This infographic provides information on how to improve your ED's readiness to care for children.

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Topic Briefs

Early Recognition of Sepsis in the Pediatric Patient

This topic brief provides information and resources for the timely identification of sepsis in the pediatric patient and the appropriate emergency nursing care.

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