Emergency Nursing Resources and Guides
🚑 Emergency Nursing Resources & Guides
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- The most useful clinical guidelines & protocols
- High-yield learning resources
- Real ED nurse insights & interviews
- The best courses and upskilling suggestions
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🚑 START HERE: Most Used ED Resources
These are the go-to links most ED nurses use on shift.
🩸 Trauma
- Trauma VIC → (link) ⭐ Essential trauma resource
🐍 Toxicology / Overdose
- Austin Toxicology → (link) ⭐ Commonly used tox resource in ED
🔥 Burns
- VicBurns Guidelines → (link) ⭐ Must-have
👶 Paediatrics
- Monash Paediatric Emergency Book → (link) ⭐ RESUS critical
- NETS Clinical Calculator → (link) ⭐ Paeds dosing
- RCH Guidelines → (link) ⭐ Gold standard
- QLD Paediatric Guidelines → (link)
🤰 Obstetric / Maternity
- Royal Women’s Guidelines → (link)
👂 ENT Emergencies
- Royal Eye & Ear ENT → (link)
🧠 Triage
- ETEK (Emergency Triage Education Kit) → (link) ⭐ Core triage resource
💉 General ED Guidelines
🎓 Emergency Nursing Courses & Upskilling
🔥 Most Valuable ED Qualifications
- Graduate Certificate in Emergency Nursing
- Advanced Life Support (ALS Level 1 & 2)
- Triage Education (ATS / ETEK / CENA)
🧠 Resuscitation Courses
🚑 Trauma & Acute Care
🌏 Rural & Remote
- REC (CRANAplus)
- MEC
- RIPRN
- Pharmacotherapeutics courses (google, multiple on offer)
🩺 Practical Clinical Skills
- Cannulation (often just learn at workplace)
- Ultrasound-guided IV access (workplace can offer this, or find external course)
- ECG interpretation (in-house or external – google)
- Plastering / splinting (in-house or external – google
- Suturing / wound closure (in-house or external – google)
📚 eLearning & Clinical Education
- Alfred Emergency Learning
- Hamilton Ventilator Training
- Resus4Kids
- ABG Ninja
- CENA 5 Minute Fridays
- ACI Red Flag Modules
- TraumaVic Modules
- Radiology Across Borders
- ANZCOR
🧠 Emergency & Critical Care Learning
- EMcrit
- Resus.me
- Emergency Medicine Research Review
📊 Evidence-Based Practice
- BestBets
📋 Guidelines & Protocols
- Anaphylaxis Clinical Care Standard
- Asthma Management Program
- Heavy Menstrual Bleeding Standard
- Low Back Pain Standard
- Opioid Stewardship Standard
- SESLHD ED Protocols
🎧 Emergency Medicine Blogs & Podcasts
- Life in the Fast Lane
- St Emlyn’s
- ALiEM
- EMRAP
- Emergency Medicine Ireland
- Smart EM
❤️ Real Emergency Nurse Stories
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Nurse practitioner interviews
Trauma nurse stories
Graduate ED experiences
Educator insights
Think we should add one? Email us what it is to hello@thenursebreak.org
Trauma
Toxicology Emergencies
Austin health Toxicology/Overdose
Skin/Dermatology Emergencies
Burns
VicBurns Burns Management Guidelines
Maternity/Obstetric Emergencies
The Royal Women’s / Maternity / Obstetric Guidelines
ENT Emergencies
The Royal Ear/Eye Hospital ENT Emergencies
Triage
Emergency Triage Education Kit ETEK
Other Emergency Guidelines
NSW Health Emergency Clinical Guides
Primary Clinical Care Manual Guidelines/Assessment
Adult Retrieval Victoria (ARV) Infusion/Medication Table ARV
eLearning
Alfred Emergency Learning Resources
Critical Bleeding – eLearning modules
Learn Diagnostic Imagining – Radiology Across Borders
ANZCOR Australian Resuscitation Council
SCROLL – Most recent interviews from ED nurses
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Emergency Nursing Courses & Upskilling Ideas
🔥 Most Valuable ED Qualifications
- University – Postgraduate Certificate Emergency Nursing
- Advanced Life Support Level 1 & 2
- Triage Education (ATS / ETEK / CENA Triage Skills)
🧠 Resuscitation Courses
- Advanced Life Support Level 1 & 2
- APLS (Advanced Paediatric Life Support)
- NeoResus (Neonatal Resuscitation)
🌏 Rural & Remote & Trauma
- TNCC (Trauma Nursing Core Course)
- CENA Trauma Nursing Program (TNP)
- Emergency Trauma Management (ETM)
- ITLS (International Trauma Life Support)
- Remote Emergency Care (REC — CRANAplus)
- Maternity Emergency Care (MEC — CRANAplus)
- RIPRN (Rural and Isolated Practice RN)
- Pharmacotherapeutics for Remote Area Nurses
- Immunisation Certificate
Other Resources
Emergency & Critical Care
EMcrit Scott Weingart is an “ED Intensivist” and offers a number of insights for resuscitationists, this is an enormous emergency and intensive care resource that brings the best evidence-based information from the fields of critical care, resuscitation, and trauma to the bedside.
Resus.me Dr Cliff Reid’s site is jammed packed full of good stuff from mastering the resuscitation bay, acute medicine, ultrasound and trauma.
Emergency Medicine Research Review Issue 27 with expert Associate Professor Mark Putland, Director of Emergency Medicine at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, is an independent clinical research update. It is available to health professionals across Australia and there is no cost to subscribe. It provides a quick overview of critical research relevant to daily practice and is sent by email every 2-3 months. You can sign up at www.researchreview.com.au
Evidence Based Practice
BestBets Developed by Manchester Royal Infirmary Emergency Department in the UK, BestBets provides rapid evidence-based answers to real-life clinical questions, using a systematic approach to reviewing the literature.
Guidelines & Protocols
Acute Anaphylaxis Clinical Care Standard, released on 24 November 2021 to ensure safer care for people at risk of anaphylaxis.
Asthma and children: diagnosis & treatment is an education program launched by NPS MedicineWise, aimed at improving the diagnosis and management of people with asthma in Australian primary care.
Don’t Forget the Bubbles Tessa Davis a paediatric ED doctor now living in Australia who has put together an enormous archive of protocols and guidelines. If you couldn’t find it in our set then look here, or look here anyway and see what others are doing. Tessa is also publisher of great paediatric ED apps.
Heavy Menstrual Bleeding Clinical Care Standard is a nationally agreed standard of care for women with heavy menstrual bleeding. The clinical care standard was developed by the Commission in collaboration with women’s health experts and consumers, and taking into account feedback from public consultation.
Low Back Pain Clinical Care Standard aims to improve the easly assessment, management, review and appropriate referral of patients with this common health condition.
Opioid Analgesic Stewardship in Acute Pain Clinical Care Standard developed by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care sets out appropriate use of opioid analgesics in the emergency department and after surgery. It excludes major trauma and does not address the use of opioids to treat chronic pain.
SESLHD Emergency Nurse Protocols and Standing Orders This is a collection of protocols and standing order templates covering a wide range of common presenting symptoms.
Education
Nurse Practitioners Career Guide – For Aspiring Nurse Practitioners is a career guide has been created by the Australian College of Nurse Practitioners (ACNP) to provide nursing students and registered nurses with information regarding the Nurse Practitioner (NP) role, career path and opportunities
Resus4kids This is a very comprehensive and well-presented site on paediatric resuscitation, using an eLearning platform to cover all the basics in detail. Access is free to all NSWHealth employees. For those not employed by NSWHealth, please contact the site administrator for access.
Learning Nurse The Learning Nurse Resources Network offers continuing education and professional development, that is free and safe resource for ALL levels of nurses to assess, maintain and enhance their professional competence.
General Emergency Blogs
This Emergency Life This Emergency Life is a podcast about emergency care. The podcast aims to engage and inform CENA members as well as the broader emergency care community and will include interviews with; emergency care clinicians, researchers, educators, policy makers and thought leaders from Australasia and around the world.
Lifeinthefastlane Needs no introduction. The LITFL is a medical blog and website dedicated to providing free online emergency medicine and critical care insights and education for everyone, everywhere at anytime. The LITFL team is headed by Mike Cadogan and Chris Nickson, and consists (mostly) of emergency physicians and intensivists based in Australia and New Zealand.
St. Emlyn’s The Virtual Hospital led by Professor Simon Carley and a dedicated group of blogging clinicians has a broad scope of material delivered in a very digestible way, with the aim of improving emergency care through free and open access education.
ALiEM Academic Life in Emergency Medicine, is an engaging, emergency packed blog that aims to disrupt how emergency clinicians can gain public access to high-quality, educational content while also engaging in a dialogue about best-practices in emergency care.
EMRAP Emergency Medicine Reviews and Perspectives, is a monthly audio series with over 20,000 subscribers every month and is the #1 audio program in emergency medicine. EM:RAP features a world-class faculty from around the globe, presenting a range of EM topics in a tightly edited audio format.
Emergency Medicine Ireland A fresh and amusing approach to evidence-based emergency medicine, that aims to foster education, reflection, enthusiasm and conversation – all with touch of good humour.
Emergency Medicine Updates An enormous body of work and a lot of it very, very good with a mixture of blog style comments and paper reviews with some material on skills, easy viewing. There is some trolling required but it’s worth it.
Smart EM Smart it is EM:Rap style discussions, witty and very detailed.
Specialty Sites
ECGpedia A very nice site with lots of great ECG stuff. Useful for all levels unless you are already an ECG superstar, in which case go and do something else, like introduce yourself to your kids. It is interactive and has a nice toy in the “move the arrow and see what the axis does to the ECG”. Try it now!
Dr. Smith’s ECG Blog Interactive ECGs in clinical context.
