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ED Boarding

ACEP Now

In November 2022, the American College of Emergency Physicians sent a letter to President Biden on behalf of 34 organizations, asking to convene stakeholders to identify solutions to address the emergency department (ED) boarding crisis.1 Even more so, nurses left practice or migrated to non-hospital settings.

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2023 ACEP Elections Preview: Meet the President-Elect and Council Officer Candidates

ACEP Now

As your national ACEP liaison to the American Academy of Emergency Nurse Practitioners (AAENP), I have the incredible honor, privilege, and responsibility to be your “voice” during AAENP Board of Director meetings. Did I bold type “physician-led” in that last sentence? Another point purposefully made.

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ED Airway Control —When Two Lives Are At Stake!

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

She’s there because your hospital is under-resourced, has injury or illness not thought related to gravidity, is too “sick” to make it to OB Labor/Delivery, or you’re trying to get OR to open. In rural Critical Access Hospitals, or austere conditions, you may be all that is available.