Leadership In Practice

LEADERSHIP IN PRACTICE

Angela Shannon
Julie Rossie

Past Reports

Broad Goals

-- Be a forum for member discussion of emergency clinical practice issues

-- Disseminate ideas shared and other resources to support California emergency nurses

Each state council Leadership in Practice committee meeting will have a theme for discussion, as well as time allotted for an open forum to discuss pressing clinical practice issues. The discussion themes agreed upon for this year are the following:

1. January: ED Overcrowding

2. May: Patient safety

Procedural sedation (regulation and scope of

practice);

ED nursing practice guidelines

3. August: Quality of emergency care

Example topics: Evidence-based practice in ED,

cardiac care updates, special populations,

palliative care in ED.

4. November: Emergency nursing workforce practice issues

Discussion to include presentation by Anna Valdez on dissertation

research related to educational priorities for emergency nurses.

** Tell us your patient story! Do you have a story that illustrates quality or creative emergency nursing care that positively impacted a patient, despite barriers such as overcrowding? It might be your own experience or that of a colleague. The example can be focused into a paragraph or two.

Please email your story to: angela.shannon@sfdph.org.

Leadership in Practice Committee meets at 9:00 am the morning of the California State Council meetings. All members are welcome.