Practice Resources

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

This position statement discusses the importance of cultural sensitivity, the need for further education and training, and practices that can be implemented to provide a safe and inclusive ED.

This position statement discusses the role of the emergency nurse with programs like mobile integrated health and community paramedicine programs.

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

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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...

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

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.

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

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

The purpose of this topic brief is to facilitate community resilience in disasters and public health emergencies by providing strategies to mitigate inequities and advocate for groups that have been historically marginalized or made vulnerable and more susceptible to the ill effects...

This topic brief addresses the need for pediatric surge planning and provides information for facilities converting from a standard operating capacity to a pediatric surge capacity.

This toolkit is designed to be a reference for emergency nurses and nurse leaders along with key stakeholders during the disaster process from planning to recovery. 

This joint position statement identifies practices and principles to guide the care of children, families, and staff in the challenging and uncommon event of the death of a child in the ED.

This revised technical report and accompanying policy statement reaffirm principles of patient- and family-centered care. Recent literature is examined regarding family presence, termination of resuscitation, bereavement responsibilities of ED clinicians, support of child fatality...

This position statement reviews how crowding, boarding, and patient throughput delays are associated with deleterious patient outcomes, negative impacts on emergency staff, and disruption of communities’ overall emergency services.

This topic brief describes the reality of compassion fatigue, introduces methods and tools to combat and prevent it and highlights the importance of personal wellness.