Making Space – Emergency Care Conference 2024

Hello Colleague Making space – literally, metaphorically and psychologically, is both challenging and critical right across emergency care. As health professionals, we need space to process and recover from the emotional payload of what we do. We need clear boundaries for team members, patients and management, so everyone knows where their space is. And of […]

Judith on the ECA Conference

I was so excited to hear from Gary Jones CBE, that he was in discussion with Lynda Holt, Brian Dolan and Gabby Lomas to resurect our emergency nursing conference, and even more exited when our FEN president was invited to be a part of the planning group, so that we could launch a joint conference. […]

ECA Conferences

With the return of the Emergency Care Conference in 2022 I have been asked to write a reflective piece about my experiences of the emergency care conferences that I had attended back in the day.  I have to say that that my mind was immediately filled with a kaleidoscope of great memories on places, people […]

Ruth Cave

Ruth Cave After nurse training at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, Ruth’s started her career in a small but busy emergency department where she stayed for eighteen months. However the possibility of working as a nurse abroad was an opportunity too good to miss, so off she went to satisfy her wanderlust. On […]

Karen Kyle

Karen Kyle I am currently the ED Sister Paediatric Lead in Antrim Area Hospital NI. I have been in post for 8 years. Paediatric ED functions within a District General Hospital (DGH) Adult ED. I was responsible for setting up this Department when the new ED opened in 2014. My Department treats up to 24,000 […]