Emergency Nursing

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "I Was a Spectacle... A Freak Show at the Circus": A Transgender Person's ED Experience and Implications for Nursing Practice. 
  • A Quality Improvement Initiative for Designing and Implementing a Military Service Screening Tool for a Community Emergency Department. 
  • A matched-cohort study of pediatric head injuries: collecting data to inform an evidence-based triage assessment. 
  • A prospective study of ED pain management practices and the patient's perspective. 
  • A summative evaluation of an EMS partnership aimed at reducing ED length of stay. 
  • A survey of workplace violence across 65 U.S. emergency departments. 
  • Accuracy of the Emergency Severity Index triage instrument for identifying elder emergency department patients receiving an immediate life-saving intervention. 
  • An ENA state research committee: the Illinois experience. 
  • Are Emergency Departments in the United States Following Recommendations by the Emergency Severity Index to Promote Quality Triage and Reliability? 
  • Barriers to screening and intervention for ED patients at risk for undiagnosed or uncontrolled hypertension. 
  • Can education and staff-based participatory research change nursing practice in an era of ED overcrowding? A focus group study. 
  • Changing Team Member Perceptions by Implementing TeamSTEPPS in an Emergency Department. 
  • Does this patient meet the criteria for Emergency Severity Index level 2? 
  • Emergency Severity Index version 4: clarifying common questions. 
  • Emergency nurses' knowledge of pain management principles. 
  • Evaluation of Nursing Documentation Completion of Stroke Patients in the Emergency Department: A Pre-Post Analysis Using Flowsheet Templates and Clinical Decision Support. 
  • Evaluation of a Nurse-Initiated Acute Gastroenteritis Pathway in the Pediatric Emergency Department. 
  • Evaluation of a train-the-trainer workshop on sickle cell disease for ED providers. 
  • Examining emergency department communication through a staff-based participatory research method: identifying barriers and solutions to meaningful change. 
  • From the Outside Looking In. 
  • Geriatric emergency department guidelines. 
  • Identifying Social-Behavioral Health Needs of Adults with Sickle Cell Disease in the Emergency Department. 
  • Impact of emergency department volume on registered nurse time at the bedside. 
  • Implementation and refinement of the emergency severity index. 
  • Implementing the Emergency Severity Index Triage System in Jamaican Accident and Emergency Departments. 
  • Improving patient flow in the emergency department by placing a family nurse practitioner in triage: a quality-improvement project. 
  • Opening the dialogue: what counts? 
  • Pediatric Triage Education for the General Emergency Nurse: A Randomized Crossover Trial Comparing Simulation With Paper-Case Studies. 
  • Pediatric triage: a review of emergency education literature. 
  • Providing support to IPV victims in the emergency department: vignette-based interviews with IPV survivors and emergency department nurses. 
  • Re-evaluating triage in the new millennium: A comprehensive look at the need for standardization and quality. 
  • Recognizing pain as a component of the primary assessment: adding D for discomfort to the ABCs. 
  • Refining Emergency Severity Index triage criteria. 
  • Reliability and validity of scores on The Emergency Severity Index version 3. 
  • Reviewing the research literature: you don't have to do it alone. 
  • Safety of an ED High-Dose Opioid Protocol for Sickle Cell Disease Pain. 
  • Should you close your waiting room? Addressing ED overcrowding through education and staff-based participatory research. 
  • Sickle cell disease management in the emergency department: what every emergency nurse should know. 
  • The Emergency Severity Index Version 4: changes to ESI level 1 and pediatric fever criteria. 
  • The effect of blood-drawing techniques and equipment on the hemolysis of ED laboratory blood samples. 
  • The effect of standard care, ibuprofen, and music on pain relief and patient satisfaction in adults with musculoskeletal trauma. 
  • Triage: how long does it take? how long should it take? 
  • Undiagnosed hypertension in the ED setting--an unrecognized opportunity by emergency nurses. 
  • Unique Educational Needs of Emergency Nurse Practitioners. 
  • Using Ways of Knowing to Guide Emergency Nursing Practice. 
  • Using nurses' natural language entries to build a concept-oriented terminology for patients' chief complaints in the emergency department. 
  • Vertical patient flow: is it safe and effective?