ENA PRACTICE RESOURCES Dede Koenekamp RN CEN CPEN

ENA PRACTICE RESOURCES Dede Koenekamp RN CEN CPEN 12/1/17

Objectives • Identify 5 resources available to ENA members. • Familiarizing yourself with the new environment of the ENA web site. • Identify external web resources

Why are these valuable resources? • Evidence based information • No need to re-invent the policy or guideline. The information is available online with source references. • Meet new colleagues

How do I find a resource on the ENA web site?

Do I have to be an ENA member? 1 • Many resources are available to Non-ENA members 2 • ENA members have expanded resources and communities available to them, including Toolkits

Resources Available • • • Position statements Toolkits Topic briefs White Papers Translation into Practice • Clinical Practice Guidelines • ENA communities • Journal of Emergency Nursing • Free education

How do I find the resources? • www. ena. org • Menu • Click on Practice Resources • Practice Resource Library • Start looking around- there is a whole lot there!

Translation into Practice (TIP) • A repository of emergency nursing clinical practice resources organized by topic area, to help you find what you need to deliver safe practice and care. • Critical Care patients boarded in the ED • Pediatric oral rehydration for Gastroenteritis • Long Backboard use for Spinal Motion restriction • Right and posterior EKGs

TIP: Long Backboard Use for Spinal Motion Restriction

White Papers What is it? Examples • A white paper is an authoritative report or guide that informs readers concisely about a complex issue and presents the issuing body's philosophy on a matter. It is meant to help readers understand an issue, solve a problem, or make a decision. • Geriatric ED Guidelines • Care of the Psychiatric Patient in the ED • Nurse Fatigue • Caring for Adult Patients with suicide risk in the ED

White Paper

Clinical Practice Guidelines • Comprehensive and detailed information on a particular clinical or emergency care topic • Capnography during Procedural Sedation/ Analgesia Clinical Practice Guideline Synopsis • Prevention of Blood Specimen Hemolysis in Peripherally Collected Venous Specimens Clinical Practice Guideline Synopsis • Difficult Intravenous Access Clinical Practice Guideline Synopsis Family Presence During Invasive Procedures and Resuscitation • •

Topic Brief • Newsletter Type document. • Includes key information • References/Research • Formatted for clinical use. • Active Shooter Preparedness in the Emergency Department Topic Brief • Adult Immunizations Topic Brief • An Overview of Tranexamic Acid (TXA) and its Application to Trauma Patients • Avoiding the Log Roll Maneuver Topic Brief • Care of Behavioral Health Patients in the Emergency Department Topic Brief

Toolkits Information Resources Links Comprehensive literative review. • Forms • Guides • • • Naloxone education • Interfaculty Transport for Pediatric patients • Community Injury Prevention • ED Workplace Injury Prevention

Position Statements: • Position statements are recommendations for a course of action or statement of beliefs that reflects ENA’s stance regarding an issue of importance to safe practice, safe care, and optimal patient outcomes. • There are currently 55 position statements! • There are three types of statements: • .

Types of Position Statements • ENA Positions Statement: • Recommendations for a course of action or statement of beliefs that reflects ENA’s stance regarding an issue of importance to safe practice, safe care, and optimal patient outcomes. • ENA Joint Statements: • An assertion of the beliefs held, encouraged, and supported, but written in collaboration with other external organizations with mutual interest

Position Statements • ENA Supported • It is helpful to have Statements: partner/external associations and • Statements written by organizations to agree an external organization on a topic or course of with content expertise action. It demonstrates identifying a course of collaboration and joint action or statement of consensus. belief. These statements are officially supported by ENA.

Examples of Position Statements • Transport Nurse Safety in the Transport Environment: ASTNA Position Paper Supported by ENA • Trauma Nursing Education Position Statement • Triage Qualifications and Competency Position Statement • Use of Protocols in the Emergency Setting Position Statement • Use of Terms Such as Mid-Level Provider and Physician Extender: AANP Consensus Statement Endorsed by ENA • Violence in the Emergency Care Setting Position Statement • Weighing All Patients in Kilograms Position Statement

Join the Online Community Reach ENA members around the world, ask for feedback, exchange ideas, network in a (privite) online community

How do I join the Huddle (online) • Ena. org • Menu to "Membership” • Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on join the online community. • Choose whether you want to get emails or just view topics

What will I find? • A member poses a question, or issue. • Staff Nurses, Nurse Managers, Educators all post responses, and add policies/guidelines. • It is a hub of current topics and how ED’s are responding. • Great for Joint Commission topics! • Consider having someone monitor the issues on a regular basis.

Journal of Emergency Nursing 6 issues/year

Print and Online just for you! • “The Journal of Emergency Nursing, the official journal of the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA), is committed to the dissemination of high quality, peer-reviewed manuscripts relevant to all areas of emergency nursing practice across the lifespan. Journal content includes clinical topics, integrative or systematic literature reviews, research, and practice improvement initiatives that provide emergency nurses globally with implications for translation of new knowledge into practice. ”

How do I get it online? • ww. jenonline. org • Create an account using your ENA member number • Mobile access Android and i. OS application • Download is on the above web address. • Tip: • Emergency Nursing Review Questions are published in each issue. • You can obtain CEU’s (for a fee) by reading articles!

Free Education for ENA members • Sign in to your account • Menu-education-online education. • Click on “Free CE” • Courses will appear to have a price. • Add to the cart and (most) are free. • ANCC appproved CE • Preparing for the Worst: The Trajectory of Triage • Emergency Nursing Care of the Pediatric Patient with Fracture • Shelter from the Storm – Improving Pediatric Behavioral Health Care in an Emergency Setting

Case Study • You just heard Joint Commission was asking about your response time in cases of Malignant Hyperthermia. – You have never seen a case in 25 years of practice – You last heard the term on some test…. – Joint Commission is coming soon! – Does your staff need training?

Found: Free Education!

ENA Huddle-quite a discussion!

Summary • Define your challenges – Explore which tools are useful to you and your practice setting. • Set realistic expectations – You may need to do additional literature searches (CINAHL etc to get your information)

Resources • Emergency Nurses Association • ena. org • Dede Koenekamp • dekoe@comcast. net