Emergency Nurse Program Implementation

Emergency nurses, like other healthcare providers, face many challenges to remain current and competent in the skills and knowledge required to manage increasingly complex patient populations.1 A qualified emergency nurse is expected to be competent in the management of emergent, urgent, and non-urgent patients across the health and age continuum.2 Maintenance of competence in an evolving practice requires the astute emergency nurse to engage in lifelong learning, knowledge acquisition, and skills refinement.2 

A strong emergency nurse education program is an essential component of a well-functioning emergency department or system. Our emergency nurse team manages clinical care at the BIDMC emergency department, a level 1 trauma center and, over the years, has developed a robust education program to keep its 150-nurse team up to date on necessary clinical skills and patient care.

Our team will help you design and implement a strong nurse education program, via:

• Strategic planning, based on your department’s clinical goals

• Development of a standardized nurse curriculum

• Needs assessment to target training priorities

• Educator training

• Program design and implementation

• Tracking and reporting systems, evaluation and continuous quality improvement.

View our case study on the creation of a standardized regional emergency nurse education program in Denmark. 

1. Harding AD, Walker-Cillo G, Duke A, Campos GJ, Stapleton SJ. A framework for creating and evaluating competencies for emergency nurses. J Emerg Nurs. 2013;39(3):252-264. doi: 10.1016/j.jen.2012.05.006.

2. Zaleski ME. Emergency Nurses Association position statement emergency nurse orientation. Emergency Nurses Association.