Emergency Nurse Practitioners (Emergency & Trauma Centre)
- Staff
- Description of Service
- Emergency Nurse Practitioner Publications
- Emergency Nurse Practitioner Presentations
Staff
Description of Service
Leadership
The Nurse Practitioner team are actively involved in promoting the role within Emergency Nursing throughout the State of Victoria.
The team have set up relationships with both the metropolitan and regional emergency nurse practitioners.
They have also assisted both interstate and international colleagues with clinical practice guideline development and mentoring of nurse practitioner roles.
The Nurse Practitioner is an integral member of the emergency & trauma team who provides clinical expertise in emergency care.
The Nurse Practitioner has expert clinical decision making abilities that include the following extensions to practice: The ability to prescribe medications, order and interpret diagnostics and pathology, provide absence from work certificates, referral to medical specialities and the ability to admit and discharge patients autonomously.
Clinical Practice Guidelines
As part of the multidisciplinary team at the Alfred, the Nurse Practitioner team have developed and are utilising the most up to date evidenced based practice guidelines.
These guidelines define and promote our scope of practice in the department. The Alfred is part of the Victorian Emergency Nurse Practitioner Collaborative (VENPC) which have developed these guidelines and supported nurse practitioner development in Victoria.
Clinical practice guidelines developed inclusive of June 05
CPG 1 - Injury -Open wound
CPG 2 - Injury - Burns
CPG 3 - Injury - Face
CPG 4 - Injury - Hands
CPG 5 - Injury - Knee
CPG 6 - Injury - Ankle
CPG 7 - Injury - Shoulder/upper arm
CPG 8 - Injury - Wrist/Forearm
CPG 9 - Injury - Elbow
CPG 10 - Injury Foot
CPG 11 - Injury - Minor Head
CPG 12 - Injury - Hip suggestive of NOF #
CPG 13 - Abdominal pain
CPG 14 - Anal Pain
CPG 15 - Joint pain- Haemophilia
CPG 16 - Blood and Fluid Exp - Community
CPG 17 - Blood and Fluid EXP - Occupational
CPG 18 - Cellulitis
CPG 19 - Diarrhoea and Vomiting
CPG 20 - Suspected DVT
CPG 21 - Mastitis
CPG 22 - Suspected Renal Colic
CPG 23 - Suspected URTI
CPG 24 - PV Bleeding
CPG 25 - Suspected UTI
Emergency Nurse Practitioner Publications
A comparative study of patients who did not wait for treatment and those treated by Emergency Nurse Practitioners
Volume 9, Issue 4, December 2006, Pages 149-194
Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal
Geraldine A. Lee and Natasha Jennings
A survey of staff satisfaction with nurse practitioner candidates in the emergency department
Volume 15, Issue 2, April 2007, Pages 79-87
Accident and Emergency Nursing Journal
Geraldine A. Lee and Natasha Jennings
Evaluating outcomes of the Emergency Nurse Practitioner Role in a major urban Emergency Department, Melbourne, Australia
Volume 17, Issue 8. Pages 1044-50
Journal of Clinical Nursing
Natasha Jennings, Gerard O'Reilly, Geraldine A Lee, Peter Cameron, Michael Bailey & Belinda Free
Emergency Nurse Practitioners: An underestimated addition to the emergency care team
Volume 20, Dec 2008, Pages 453 - 455
Emergency Medicine Australasia
Kylie Wilson, Peter Cameron, Natasha Jennings
A comparative study of patients who do not wait for treatment and those treated by Emergency Nurse Practitioners
Volume 9, Issue 4, Pages 179- 185
Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal
Geraldine A. Lee, Natasha Jennings
Emergency Nurse Practitioner Presentations
2008
Ten Years on: An overview of the Nurse Practitioner in Victoria-Role progression and sustainability.
CENA 3rd National Conference for Emergency Nurses. Perth, August 2008.
Expanding the Emergency Nurse Practitioner Scope of Practice.
Australian Nurse Practitioner Association Conference, Melbourne, October 2008.
Emergency Nurse Practitioners -defining the scope of practice.
Australian Nurse Practitioner Association conference. Melbourne, Oct. 2008
2007
Moving from fast-track - expanding the scope of the Emergency Nurse Practitioner.
CENA 3rd National Conference for Emergency Nurses, Melbourne, October, 2007.
Nurse initiated radiographs; Accurate clinical assessment and documentation- Two essential elements for radiograph interpretation.
CENA 3rd National Conference for Emergency Nurses, Melbourne, October, 2007.
Emergency Nurse Practitioners; Facilitating optimal patient recovery post hand injury.
Poster, CENA 3rd National Conference for Emergency Nurses, Melbourne, October, 2007.
Emergency nurse practitioners - Do they see only cuts, sore throats and ingrown toenails???
Poster, CENA 3rd National Conference for Emergency Nurses, Melbourne, October, 2007.
Emergency Nurse Practitioners- An Alternative Model of Health Care Delivery
Change Champions Seminar
Improving the Delivery of Emergency Care: Sharing the lessons learnt
Brisbane, May 10th - 11th, 2007.
2006
Evaluating outcomes of the Emergency Nurse Practitioner Role in a major urban Emergency Department.
CENA 2nd National Conference Hobart, August, 2006.
An alternative approach to health care delivery in the Emergency Department. A Case study approach
International Emergency Nursing Conference, Coogee, September, 2005.
Implementing the Emergency Nurse Practitioner into a Major Inner Ctiry Trauma Centre.
RCNA Conference
Leadership, image and culture
Adelaide - July 2005.
Implementing the Emergency Nurse Practitioner into a major inner city trauma centre.
Winner of Best Paper
Trauma 2005 International Symposium
Canada - April 2005.