Emergency Care Association Conference 2008
14-15 November 2008, Daresbury
'Emergency Care Matters: making your voice heard in emergency care'
Over 240 professionals representing all aspects of emergency care provision attended the ECA annual conference in Daresbury on 14 and 15 November 2008. For the first time the conference brought together the ECA with the RCN Minor Injuries Group RCN Paediatric Emergency Care Group and the British Paramedic Association to offer an exciting and diverse programme.
Delegates were offered a wide range of concurrent sessions presented in a number of 'streams' covering leadership, education, clinical practice, research and innovation, paediatrics and minor injuries. There were a number of first-time presenters who braved the nerves to deliver informative and stimulating sessions, all offering excellent opportunities to take things back to other departments to improve patient care and nursing practice.
For more information, read Heather Jarman's Conference report (Word 26.5KB)
Presentations
Alf Dunbar: Welcome: You are the difference (PDF 1.2MB)
Alex Water: The changing role of the ambulance service in the UK (PDF 470.8KB)
Cheryl Chainey: Trials, tribulations and pitfalls - paediatrics in the adult emergency department (PDF 3.4MB)
Nicola Adshead and Raynie Thomson: The implementation of a paediatric early warning tool for use within the emergency department and on acute paediatric wards (PDF 1.4MB)
Mike Griffiths and Nicky Rigby: Major reconfiguration = major headache (PDF 5.2MB)
Paul Newcombe and Heather Jarman: Emergency nurse education - the next generation (PDF 698.4KB)
Chris Boyce and Janine Deller: 999, deprivation and falls (PDF 580.3KB)
Fiona Firmin and Steve Murray: Tommorow's leaders today (PDF 240.9KB)
Julian Newell and Peter Smith: Triage in light of four hour targets: results of a survey of current practice in emergency departments in the UK (PDF 299.7KB)
Sara Morris: Is domestic abuse and issue for emergency nurses? (PDF 191.4KB)
Anne Welling: Use of topical oioids on burns (PDF 80.5KB)
Kerry Holt: Paediatric triage tool (PDF 1.1MB)
Julie Flaherty: Fabricated illness and injury in children attending emergency and urgent care (PDF 2.9MB)
Jennifer C Williams and Katie Rhodes: Automated drug dispensing in the emergency department (PDF 304.6KB)
Julie Flaherty: Road safety is no accident (PDF 301.8KB)
Johnny Wells: Knife crime (PDF 974.9KB)
Barry McBrien and Rosaleen Reilly: Improving acute respiratory distress in the emergency setting: the challenges of caring for a patient requiring non-invasive ventilation (PDF 217.3KB)
Deidre Molloy: Presentations and examination of hand tendons (PDF 1.3MB)
Mandy Rumley: Abdominal complaints in urgent and emergency care (PDF 469KB)
Angie May: Headache assessment (PDF 349.2KB)
Fiona Firmin: Splinting versus casting of torus fractures (PDF 119.5KB)
Sally Knight and Suzanne Gregory: We need to do this now! (PDF 241KB)
Raymond Young, Mark Dawes and Shiela Pantrini: Independent non-medical prescribing in the ED - is it safe? (PDF 936.3KB)
Tricia Scott: Planning your research investigation (PDF 1.1MB)
Bonnie J McDowell: Multi-professional education for unscheduled primary care practitioners and its impact on practice (PDF 96.5KB)
Karen Grant and Suzanne Knight: Development of a paediatric competency document (PDF 1MB)
Michelle Hayes: Care and triage of patients with mental health problems (PDF 5.6MB)
Anne Welling: Utilising R.A.I.D to introduce formal triage into a primary care nurse-led walk-in centre (PDF 119.1KB)