Cost Savings of Frequent, Concise Skills Competency Training in the Emergency Department

Evaluating the success of an inpatient PA and NP program through trends in ED consults

“…Training programs including competency assessments can help to educate PAs and NPs on handling routine emergency cases such as fracture care, allowing specialty clinicians to focus on more specialized cases. 33,34 Further emergency medicine PA residency or fellowship programs, or postgraduate programs, have been developed and piloted to ensure that more accurate and reliable care is delivered. 28 Collaborative and interprofessional healthcare teams have been shown to improve patient satisfaction, improve clinician satisfaction, and reduce errors.…”

“…Specialty training and increased resource use help all ED clinicians perform at their highest level while maintaining coordinated patient flow. Training programs including competency assessments can help to educate PAs and NPs on handling routine emergency cases such as fracture care, allowing specialty clinicians to focus on more specialized cases 33,34. Further emergency medicine PA residency or fellowship programs, or postgraduate programs, have been developed and piloted to ensure that more accurate and reliable care is delivered 28.…”

Military, Veteran, and Public Health Service Communities

“…We are actively recruiting emergency care relevant manuscripts that focus on military members, military families and caregivers, veterans, or veteran families and caregivers as the population or sample; include military or veterans as a measured characteristic to test hypotheses or predictive models; include military treatment facility, veteran hospital, or military environment as the setting; or advance interventions, clinical techniques, theories, concepts, leadership, or evidence-based practices rooted in or derived from military/veterans affairs innovation or science. Readers can visit the JEN website 7 for a collection of recently published military community and veteran health original research, literature review, and evidence-based papers on topics that include infection control, 8 emergency nursing education and professional development, [9][10][11] mental health, 12,13 specimen-collection devices in the unit supply chain, 14 emergency department point-of-care blood biomarker testing, 15 and more.…”