SECTION I: INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1.1: Introduction
SECTION II: SCOPE OF ENP PRACTICE
Chapter 2.1: Definition of Emergency Care
SECTION III: EVOLUTION OF THE ENP
Chapter 3.1: Evolution of the Emergency Nurse Practitioner
SECTION IV: PRACTICE CONSIDERATIONS FOR THE ENP
Chapter 4.1: Full Practice Authority
Chapter 4.2: Emergency Nurse Practitioners as Full Members of the Medical Staff
Chapter 4.3: Emergency Nurse Practitioners and Emergency Medical Services
SECTION V: STANDARDS OF ENP PRACTICE
Chapter 5.1: Significance of Standards
Chapter 5.2: Competencies for the ENP
Chapter 5.3: Standards of Practice
SECTION VI: ACADEMIC PREPARATION OF THE ENP
Chapter 6.1: Curricular Essentials within Academic Emergency Nurse Practitioner Programs
Chapter 6.2: Validation of Academic Emergency Nurse Practitioner Programs
SECTION VII: CERTIFICATION OF THE ENP
Chapter 7.1: ENP Certification
Dr. Wesley Davis is an emergency nurse practitioner with over two decades of clinical experience in emergency care. Dr. Davis developed a dual family and emergency nurse practitioner program at the University of South Alabama, where he currently serves as an Associate Professor and the program coordinator. As a practicing clinician, Dr. Davis is an emergency and acute care nurse practitioner at Crook County Medical Services District, a critical access hospital in Wyoming.
Dr. Dian Dowling Evans is Professor Emeritus and former Program Director of the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University. With over 30 years of clinical experience as an emergency nurse practitioner (ENP), Dr. Evans helped to pioneer and advance the ENP role. Her contributions include collaborating with a core group of ENP national leaders to establish the American Academy of Emergency Nurse Practitioners (AAENP) serving as a founding board member and Past-Chair. During her tenure she established and led the ENP Special Practice Group for the American Association of Nurse Practitioners and the ENP Special Interest Group for the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties.
