Violence against nurses working in US emergency departments.

Unlabelled: The objective of this study was to investigate emergency nurses experiences and perceptions of violence from patients and visitors in US emergency departments (EDs).

Background: The ED is a particularly vulnerable setting for workplace violence, and because of a lack of standardized measurement and reporting mechanisms for violence in healthcare settings, data are scarce.

Methods: Registered nurses members (n=3,465) of the Emergency Nurses Association participated in this cross-sectional study by completing a 69-item survey.

Violence against nurses working in US emergency departments.

Objective: The objective of this study was to investigate emergency nurses' experiences and perceptions of violence from patients and visitors in US emergency departments (EDs).

Background: The ED is a particularly vulnerable setting for workplace violence, and because of a lack of standardized measurement and reporting mechanisms for violence in healthcare settings, data are scarce.

Methods: Registered nurse members (n = 3,465) of the Emergency Nurses Association participated in this cross-sectional study by completing a 69-item survey.

Barriers to emergency departments' adherence to four medication safety-related Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goals.

Background: Medication errors are a serious public health threat, causing patient injury and death and sharply increasing health care costs. Serious preventable errors are most likely to occur in areas of increased complexity and technology, such as the emergency department (ED). Although The Joint Commission in 2002 approved the first set of National Patient Safety Goals (NPSGs) to decrease the occurrence of health care errors, the literature suggests that the goals are not fully implemented.

Research education needs of pediatric emergency nurses.

Introduction: Evidence-based practice in the emergency care of children is critical. The Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) was developed to increase pediatric research; however, participation by emergency nurses has been limited. To identify research needs in order to increase research involvement, the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) conducted a research needs assessment with nurses in PECARN emergency departments.

ENA's Delphi study on national research priorities for emergency nurses in the United States.

Introduction: This study identified and prioritized research questions with greatest value to emergency nurses and of highest importance for health care consumers.

Methods: Three hundred twenty emergency nursing leaders were invited to participate in 3 rounds of mailed surveys aimed at developing consensus. During round I, 147 nurses submitted 456 research problems.

Family presence during cardiopulmonary resuscitation and invasive procedures: practices of critical care and emergency nurses.

Background: Increasingly, patients' families are remaining with them during cardiopulmonary resuscitation and invasive procedures, but this practice remains controversial and little is known about the practices of critical care and emergency nurses related to family presence.

Objective: To identify the policies, preferences, and practices of critical care and emergency nurses for having patients' families present during resuscitation and invasive procedures.

Methods: A 30-item survey was mailed to a random sample of 1500 members of the American Association Of Critical-Care Nurses and 1500 members of the Emergency Nurses Association.

Family presence during cardiopulmonary resuscitation and invasive procedures: practices of critical care and emergency nurses.

Background: Increasingly, patients' families are remaining with them during cardiopulmonary resuscitation and invasive procedures, but this practice remains controversial and little is known about the practices of critical care and emergency nurses related to family presence.

Objective: To identify the policies, preferences, and practices of critical care and emergency nurses for having patients' families present during resuscitation and invasive procedures.

Methods: A 30-item survey was mailed to a random sample of 1500 members of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses and 1500 members of the Emergency Nurses Association.

Advanced practice nurses in emergency care settings: A demographic profile.

Introduction: Very little is known about clinical nurse specialists and nurse practitioners (advance practice nurses [APNs]) who practice in emergency care settings. The Advanced Practice Committee of the ENA sought to determine a profile of these individuals.

Methods: Surveys were distributed to all registrants at 2 ENA conferences and posted on the ENA Web site.

Data Elements for Emergency Department Systems, Release 1.0 (DEEDS): A Summary Report.

See editorial, p 274. Variations in the way that data are entered in emergency department record systems impede the use of ED records for direct patient care and deter their reuse for many other legitimate purposes. To foster more uniform ED data, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control is coordinating a public-private partnership that has developed recommended specifications for many observations, actions, instructions, conclusions, and identifiers that are entered in ED records.