A Framework for Standardizing Emergency Nursing Education and Training Across a Regional Health Care System: Programming, Planning, and Development via International Collaboration.

Introduction: The challenges related to providing continuing education and competence management for emergency nurses are not unique to any one organization, health system, or geographic location. These shared challenges, along with a desire to ensure high-quality practice of emergency nursing, were the catalyst for an international collaboration between emergency nurse leaders in Region Zealand, Denmark, and nurse leaders and educators from a large academic medical center in Boston, Massachusetts. The goal of the collaboration was to design a competency-based education framework to support high-quality emergency nursing care in Region Zealand.