Press Room Topics
November 14, 2024 • Emergency Nurses Association ENA JEN journal of emergency nursing
Paper Says Policies Needed to Prevent Unlawful Purchase and Possession of Firearms
Rounding out 2024, the November issue of the Journal of Emergency Nursing is filled with a variety of topics. From an injury prevention paper on gun violence to research on dyspnea and trauma-informed care, there is something for everyone.
November 4, 2024 • Emergency Nurses Association ENA pediatric emergency care
Quote from ENA President on Pediatric Emergency Care
“It’s so important that EDs are prepared for pediatric patients when they come through our doors. Investing in their care – from having pediatric-specific equipment to proper staff training – can help save the lives of one of our more vulnerable populations,” said ENA President Chris Dellinger, MBA, BSN, RN, FAEN
November 4, 2024 • Emergency Nurse Residency Program Emergency Nurses Association ENA
New Enhancements Bolster ENA Emergency Nurse Residency Program
Two years and 70 emergency departments after launching its dynamically successful Emergency Nurses Residency Program, the Emergency Nurses Association raised the bar once again with the recent release of program enhancements that go even further to prepare and support ED nurses.
October 30, 2024 • Advocacy Boarding Emergency Nurses Association
Message from ENA President Chris Dellinger on Boarding
ENA President Chris Dellinger highlights the association's commitment to finding solutions to the boarding crisis.
October 10, 2024 • Emergency Nurses Association Food and Drug Administration Government Relations
Joint Letter Highlights Supply Chain Issues Following Hurricane Helene
On Oct. 10, ENA co-signed a letter to the Food and Drug Administration related to supply chain issues by damage to a Baxter manufacturing site in North Carolina.
October 9, 2024 • Emergency Nurses Association Healthy Work Environment
ENA Healthy Work Environment Collaborative Bolsters Support for ED Nurses
The ENA Healthy Work Environment Collaborative focuses on strengthening collective awareness and efforts to improve how, where nurses work.
September 18, 2024 • Emergency Nurses Association ENA Healthy Work Environment JEN journal of emergency nursing Wellness
Special Issue of Journal of Emergency Nursing Focused on Nurse Wellness, Healthy Work Environments
Featuring a diverse range of scholarly works from various countries and regions, the September issue of the Journal of Emergency Nursing offers readers insights into fostering a positive workplace culture for nurses and enhancing their overall wellness.
September 11, 2024 • Emergency Nurses Association ENA ENA Research Research Workplace Violence
Emergency Nurses Association Launches a New Study on Workplace Violence
The Emergency Nurses Association has launched a survey to find the incidence and prevalence of workplace violence experienced by emergency nurses, as well as describe the types of workplace violence, precipitating factors and post-event support for nurses. Researchers will then analyze the relationship between organizational, environmental and human factors and nurses’ reported experiences to support the development of effective interventions to mitigate the violence healthcare workers face.
September 10, 2024 • Conference Emergency Nurses Association Emergency Nursing 2025 emergency nursing conference EN25 ENA
New Orleans Announced as Host City of Emergency Nursing 2025
Following a successful Emergency Nursing 2024, the Emergency Nurses Association announced that its annual education and networking conference in 2025 will take place in New Orleans.
September 9, 2024 • Board of Directors election results Emergency Nurses Association ENA Governance Leadership
ENA Members Choose Dustin Bass as ENA 2025 President-Elect
Bass, a member of the ENA Board of Directors since 2021, currently serves as its secretary/treasurer. After his year as president-elect Bass will become ENA president in 2026. As president, Bass looks forward to leveraging his experiences and connections around the world to champion initiatives that empower emergency nurses, enhance patient care and elevate the emergency nursing specialty.
September 20, 2024
Nurse workplace violence reporting increased 1,080% with new tool
Becker's Hospital Review - Making it easier to report workplace violence with quick-scan codes on walls and badges increased reporting by 1,080% in two months, according to a new study. The study, published in the September issue of The Journal of Emergency Nursing, analyzed workplace violence reports from nurses at an unnamed academic medical center. The researchers found the center averaged about two workplace violence reports a month, despite overall increased incidents of workplace violence.
September 17, 2024
UNM College of Nursing leader makes history with academy induction
New Mexico Sun - A leader in The University of New Mexico College of Nursing and a former nurse at UNM Children’s Hospital has made history as the first nurse from New Mexico to be inducted into the Academy of Emergency Nursing. This achievement highlights her work and its impact on the Land of Enchantment and beyond. Sara Daykin, DNP, RN, CPEN, TCRN, serves as the director of the pre-licensure undergraduate BSN program at the UNM College of Nursing.
September 12, 2024
Swapna Peter Named 2024 ENA Foundation’s ENDVR Fellow
Daily Nurse - Meet Swapna Peter, MSN, RN, CCRN, a seasoned nurse passionate about emergency care and dedicated to enhancing patient outcomes. With an impressive 25-year nursing career, including a decade in the fast-paced environment of the emergency department at the University of California Davis Medical Center, Peter has been selected as the recipient of the prestigious ENA Foundation’s 2024 Emergency Nursing Diverse Voices Research Fellowship.
June 26, 2024
Chicago survivors, advocates say gun violence has been a public health crisis for a long time
CBS News - The U.S. surgeon general on Tuesday declared gun violence a public health crisis Tuesday, and survivors in Chicago wonder what took so long. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy called gun violence a public health crisis because more than 48,000 died from guns in 2022. ENA President Chris Dellinger considers the U.S. surgeon general's public health crisis declaration a needed step to get change.
June 7, 2024
Deakin professor recognised globally for excellence in nursing education
Deakin University - Professor Julie Considine AO from Deakin University’s School of Nursing and Midwifery has been globally recognised for excellence in nursing education by the esteemed U.S based Emergency Nurses Association (ENA). Professor Considine, Chair in Nursing at Eastern Health and a member of Deakin’s Centre for Quality and Patient Safety Research in the Institute for Health Transformation (IHT), was awarded the Nursing Education Award at ENA’s 2024 Annual Achievement Awards.
May 22, 2024
ENA Issues Statement Asking for ACEP to Pause ED Accreditation Program
Healthcare Purchasing News – ENA has issued a statement regarding an ED accreditation program developed by the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP).
May 17, 2024
New Emergency Nurse Residency Program launched at Clovis Community Medical Center
Clovis Roundup – Clovis Community Medical Center partnered with the Emergency Nurses Association to launch an Emergency Nurse Residency Program in February of this year, and the first cohort of 12 nurses just finished their residencies. The residency program helps build confidence in clinical practice, foster collaboration among nursing management and educators, and promotes active engagement in the program, through didactic learning strategies, to benefit each nurse’s ability to provide patient care.
May 17, 2024
Nurses to ACEP: Pause ED accreditation program
Becker's - Emergency department nurses are urging the American College of Emergency Physicians to delay the rollout of its ED accreditation program, arguing that the current framework primarily focuses on physician-driven quality standards and could potentially limit the role of nurses.
May 16, 2024
Push for Safer Hospitals: Improve Violence Reporting
MedScape - Do we really need more data on workplace violence to craft laws and policies to better protect healthcare workers from aggression on the job? Some experts argued that yes, such information is essential to address this thorny problem. MedScape - One is Joanne DeSanto Iennaco, PhD, APRN, professor and director of the Clinical Doctor of Nursing Practice Program at Yale School of Nursing, Yale University, in West Haven, Connecticut, and lead author of a new study in The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, describing a reporting system designed to easily tally and classify the incidence of such aggression.
May 3, 2024
Kentucky First State to Decriminalize Medical Errors
MedPage Today - Kentucky has become the first state to decriminalize medical errors -- a move many medical associations support. Chris Dellinger, BSN, RN, president of the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA), told MedPage Today in an email that ENA "is supportive of this bill for decriminalizing honest mistakes that might occur during the delivery of care" and that this law "provides everyone with clarity as to the legal threshold prosecutors must consider when assessing medical errors in Kentucky."
April 5, 2024
More than half of emergency nurses assaulted or threatened in past 30 days
Chief Healthcare Executive - The majority of nurses in emergency departments say they have been physically assaulted or threatened. To be clear, they aren’t talking about their entire careers. Most emergency nurses say they’ve been attacked or encountered aggressive behavior in the previous month.
April 5, 2024
Violence against nurses hits all-time high: 2 new reports
Becker's Hospital Review - A growing proportion of nurses say incidents of violence and aggression they face on the job have become routine. As a result, many are considering an exit from the profession altogether. In the first week of April — which the National Institutes of Health recognizes as Workplace Violence Prevention Awareness Month — at least two new reports have been published that underscore the growing toll violence has on the nursing workforce.
April 5, 2024
Violence against nurses rising, especially among emergency departments
Crain's Chicago Business - Violence against nurses is on the rise, according to two different studies to come out this week. An anecdotal “pulse check” survey of nearly 500 members of the Schaumburg-based Emergency Nurses Association members found that 56% said they had been either physically or verbally assaulted or threatened with violence in the previous 30 days.
March 27, 2024
Parkersburg woman elected President of the Emergency Nurses Association
WTAP - Chris Dellinger has been elected as the new 2024 Emergency Nurses Association President. This is something she has built her 30-year career around.
March 25, 2024
Nurses, doctors urge Washington to take action on healthcare violence
Chief Healthcare Executive - Doctors and nurses have bemoaned the violence they are seeing in emergency departments, and they have taken that message to Capitol Hill. Leaders from the Emergency Nurses Association, the American College of Emergency Physicians, and the American Nurses Association met with congressional staffers to draw more attention
March 25, 2024
Violence against hospital workers continues to climb
WGN - At a congressional briefing held by the Emergency Nurses Association on Friday, doctors, nurses and additional healthcare leaders spoke about their experiences. Emergency Nurses Association President Chris Dellinger said, “We no longer are just a place of healing because now we have to worry about our own safety and our other patient safety as well.”
August 17, 2023
Improving Pediatric Emergency Care: ‘We Need to Do Better’
Chief Healthcare Executive—When a critically ill child arrives in a hospital’s emergency department, even the most experienced nurse can feel a chill. Terry Foster, the president of the Emergency Nurses Association, talks about the anxiety nurses feel when a child arrives in the hospital. Some parents don’t call an ambulance. They simply bring their children directly into the emergency room, and run straight toward a nurse.
August 17, 2023
Emergency Nurses Association President: Violence Has Reached Level ‘I’ve Never Seen’
Chief Healthcare Executive—Terry Foster, the president of the Emergency Nurses Association, has been a nurse for 45 years. And he tells Chief Healthcare Executive® that he doesn’t recall the level of violence that nurses are seeing in emergency departments.
July 14, 2023
Where Hospitals Can Improve in Pediatric Emergency Care
Chief Healthcare Executive—Health systems are showing signs of progress, but a new study sheds light on areas where they can do better to ensure children get the best care.
June 20, 2023 • Emergency Nurse Residency Program Emergency Nurses Association
Nurse Residency Program Doubles-Down on ED Training
Becker’s Hospital Review—Training for the first cohort of Neenah, Wis.-based ThedaCare's nurse residency program is underway at seven of its hospitals. The system adopted the program with an aim to improve retention of new nurses and better equip them for the demands of emergency department care, according to a June 13 news release.
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