Designing a standardised emergency nurse career pathway for use across rural, regional and metropolitan New South Wales, Australia: A consensus process
Emergency nurses are the first clinicians to see patients in the ED; their practice is fundamental to patient safety. To reduce clinical variation and increase the safety and quality of emergency nursing care, we developed a standardised consensus-based emergency nurse career pathway for use across Australian rural, regional, and metropolitan New South Wales (NSW) emergency departments. (Source: Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal)
Source: Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal - March 26, 2024 Category: Nursing Authors: Kate Curtis, Margaret Murphy, Sarah Kourouche, Dot Hughes, Louise Casey, Julie Gawthorne, Saartje Berendsen-Russell, Tracey Couttie, Donna Skelly, Noelene Williams, Ramon Z. Shaban, Margaret Fry, Ryan Kloger, Josephine Rheinberger, Christina Aggar, Julie Tags: Research paper Source Type: research

Exploring clinicians' insertion experience with a new peripheral intravenous catheter in the emergency department
Hospitals frequently introduce new medical devices. However, the process of clinicians adapting to these new vascular access devices has not been well explored. The study aims to explore clinicians ’ experience with the insertion of a new guidewire peripheral intravenous catheter (PIVC) introduced in the emergency department (ED) setting. (Source: Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal)
Source: Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal - March 14, 2024 Category: Nursing Authors: Hui (Grace) Xu, Areum Hyun, Evelyn Kang, Nicole Marsh, Amanda Corley Tags: Research paper Source Type: research

Characteristics and outcomes of emergency department presentations brought in by police with and without an emergency examination authority: A state-wide cohort study
The aim of this study was to describe and compare the demographic characteristics, clinical characteristics and patient and health service outcomes of emergency department (ED) presentations brought in by police with and without an emergency examination authority. (Source: Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal)
Source: Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal - March 9, 2024 Category: Nursing Authors: Julia Alcock, Julia Crilly OAM, Jamie Ranse, Rachel Wardrop Tags: Research paper Source Type: research

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Source: Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal - February 17, 2024 Category: Nursing Source Type: research

Providing end of life care in the emergency department: A hermeneutic phenomenological study
Registered nurses report the experience of delivering end of life care in emergency departments as challenging. The study aim was to understand what it is like to be a registered nurse providing end of life care to an older person in the emergency department. (Source: Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal)
Source: Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal - February 2, 2024 Category: Nursing Authors: Ellie Burnitt, Laurie A. Grealish, Julia Crilly, Katya May, Jamie Ranse Source Type: research

The experiences of trans (binary and non-binary) patients accessing care in the emergency department: An integrative review
Accessing care in the Emergency Department is often fraught with stress and heightened emotions due to illness or injury, and the complexity of navigating an often busy and overwhelming healthcare setting. For people who identify as trans (binary and non-binary), accessing Emergency Department care is often associated with additional stress or avoided due to fears of discrimination, or previous negative experiences (1). The aim of this integrative review was to identify and review the literature relating to the experiences of trans (binary and non-binary) people accessing Emergency Department care, to guide practice and fu...
Source: Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal - February 1, 2024 Category: Nursing Authors: Jake A. Muller, Elizabeth M. Forster, Katina Corones-Watkins, Belinda Chaplin Tags: Literature review Source Type: research

Examining emergency departments practices on advance care directives and medical treatment decision making using the victorian emergency minimum dataset
Existence of Advance Care Planning (ACP) documents including contact details of Medical Treatment Decision Makers (MTDM), are essential patient care records that support Emergency Department (ED) clinicians in implementing treatment concordant with patients ’ expressed wishes. Based upon previous findings, we conducted a statewide study to evaluate the performance of Victorian public hospital emergency departments on reporting of availability of records for ACP. (Source: Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal)
Source: Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal - January 22, 2024 Category: Nursing Authors: Abdi D. Osman, Jocelyn Howell, Paul Yates, Daryl Jones, George Braitberg Tags: Research paper Source Type: research

“Mind the gap”: An exploratory qualitative study of paramedics’ experiences attending older adults who fall in Western Australia
To explore paramedics ’ experiences and perspectives about attending and managing older adults who had fallen. (Source: Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal)
Source: Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal - January 17, 2024 Category: Nursing Authors: Paige Watkins, Peter Buzzacott, Hideo Tohira, Judith Finn, Deon Brink, Rudi Brits, Anne-Marie Hill Tags: Research paper Source Type: research

Informing Utstein-style reporting guidelines for prehospital thrombolysis: A scoping review
Rural Australians with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) face higher mortality rates due to limited access to specialised cardiac services. Paramedic-administered prehospital thrombolysis (PHT) has emerged as an alternative to primary percutaneous intervention (pPCI) for patients facing barriers or delays to cardiac care. There is variability in PHT practices among Australian ambulance services, lacking standardised definitions and outcome measures. The aim of this scoping review was to identify quality indicators and influencing factors associated with outcomes for patients receiving PHT. (Source: Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal)
Source: Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal - January 16, 2024 Category: Nursing Authors: Louis Jenkins, Tania Johnston, Richard Armour, Sonja Maria Tags: Clinical practice update - Paediatrics Source Type: research

Seizure or syncope: Is the history-based scale feasible to use in an emergency department setting?
This study aimed to assess the efficacy of a screening questionnaire, based on historical criteria, in distinguishing between seizures and syncope in patients experiencing their first episode of transient loss of consciousness (TLOC) in a neurology emergency department. (Source: Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal)
Source: Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal - December 5, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Stevo Luki ć, Aleksandar Stojanov Tags: Research paper Source Type: research

Editorial: Resuscitation science for emergency care clinicians
It takes a team to optimise survival from cardiac arrest and emergency care clinicians are an integral link in the chain of survival. The International Laision Committee on Resuscitation ’s (ILCOR) vision is to save more lives globally through resuscitation through their mission of promotion, dissemination and advocation of international implementation of evidence-informed resuscitation, using transparent evaluation and consensus summary of scientific data [1]. The member councils comprising ILCOR are the American Heart Association, European Resuscitation Council, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, Australian and New...
Source: Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal - November 25, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Julie Considine Tags: Editorial Source Type: research

Education interventions and emergency nurses ’ clinical practice behaviours: A scoping review
Many education interventions in emergency nursing are aimed at changing nurse behaviours. This scoping review describes and synthesises the published research education interventions and emergency nurses ’ clinical practice behaviours. (Source: Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal)
Source: Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal - November 16, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Julie Considine, Ramon Z. Shaban, Margaret Fry, Kate Curtis Tags: Systematic review Source Type: research

Assessment of inter-rater reliability of screening tools to identify patients at risk of medication-related problems across the emergency department continuum of care
This study aimed to determine the inter-rater reliability amongst ED health professionals when applying these screening tools to a series of case scenarios. (Source: Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal)
Source: Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal - November 14, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Jessica D ’lima, Simone E. Taylor, Elise Mitri, Andrew Harding, Jerry Lai, Elizabeth Manias Tags: Research paper Source Type: research

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Source: Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal - November 1, 2023 Category: Nursing Source Type: research

Examining management plans for patients who frequently presented to the emergency department
Patients who frequently present to Emergency Department (ED) experience complex health and social needs. While research has examined interventions that aim to decrease frequent ED attendances, there is a need to understand the types of interventions provided to patients by hospital clinicians during presentations. (Source: Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal)
Source: Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal - November 1, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Felicity Moon, Jonathan Knott, Siobhan Feely Source Type: research