While the live events at Emergency Nursing 2022 have wrapped up, the engagement and education will continue online for three more months. Nine pre-recorded education sessions, as well as the opening and closing general sessions, are already available online. Dozens...
ENA’s Hall of Honor Reception on Oct. 2 recognized recipients of the ENA Annual Achievement Awards, Lantern Awards, Foundation Awards and other honors. In the first such reception held in person in three years, ENA leaders read the recipients’ names to rounds of...
ENA’s reinvigorating return to in-person education and networking closed with an energetic and drum-filled presentation about rhythm, perspective and motivation. “I want you all to be excited, to walk out of here with a new rhythm on life,” said Justin Jones-Fosu as...
For the University of Alabama at Birmingham Blazing Blazers SIM Wars team, a few early curveballs only seemed to enhance the feel of an emergency department simulation. At first, the team didn’t think they’d even be in the competition at Emergency Nursing 2022. They...
When emergency nurse Naomi Ishioka was asked to temporarily serve as her organization’s disaster preparedness coordinator in November 2019, she accepted the responsibility without much thought. After all, Beaumont Health is in southeast Michigan. She didn’t need to...
Care for a patient diagnosed with atrial fibrillation might appear straightforward: Control the rate and rhythm of the heartbeat. But if a patient is suffering from other health complications, many treatment options for A-fib can carry risks that outweigh the...
Revisit Emergency Nursing 2022 in Denver with a gallery of photo highlights from the Mile High City. Look back on the inspiring Opening Session, the glitter of “Edutainment,” the fun of reconnecting with friends and colleagues and more.
Michelle Poler vividly remembers her first fear. As a 3-year-old, she was a flower girl at a wedding. She recalls worrying that she would not be able to find her mother once she had completed her walk down the aisle. Thus began years of Poler’s life in which she was...
Nycole Oliver staggered onto the stage, demanded a strawberry soda and hassled the triage nurse. She was playing “Debbie,” a severely intoxicated “super-utilizer” patient brought to the emergency department. Oliver’s antics drew thunderous laughter from the...