Kate Curtis, Margaret Murphy, Sarah Kourouche, Dot Hughes, Louise Casey, Julie Gawthorne, Saartje Berendsen-Russell, Tracey Couttie, Donna Skelly, Noelene Williams, Ramon Z Shaban, Margaret Fry, Ryan Kloger, Josephine Rheinberger, Christina Aggar, Julie Considine
BACKGROUND: Emergency nurses are the first clinicians to see patients in the ED; their practice is fundamental to patient safety. To reduce clinical variation and increase the safety and quality of emergency nursing care, we developed a standardised consensus-based emergency nurse career pathway for use across Australian rural, regional, and metropolitan New South Wales (NSW) emergency departments. METHODS: An analysis of career pathways from six health services, the College for Emergency Nursing Australasia, and NSW Ministry of Health was conducted...
March 26, 2024: Australasian emergency care