ENA and ESI questions and answers
What are the 6 main reasons patients visit the ED each year?✔✔Inability to
see a HCP
Aging population
Shorter hospital LOS
Acute mental health crisis
ED closures
Lack of adequate health insurance
What is the ENA?✔✔Emergency Nurses Association
What does the ENA do?✔✔Provides standards of care
Advances the emergency nursing practice
What is needed to join the ENA?✔✔A certification called a CEN
At least 1 year of work in an emergency enviornment
What is the ESI?✔✔The emergency severity index used to categorize patients
to insure that the most critical are treated first
The ESI scale goes from ESI-1 to ESI-5 which is the most stable and which is the
most severe?✔✔ESI-1: most severe
ESI-5: most stable
What 4 things is the ESI scale based on?✔✔Stability of vital functions (ABCs)
Life/organ threat
How soon pt should be seen by a HCP
What are the 6 main reasons patients visit the ED each year?✔✔Inability to
see a HCP
Aging population
Shorter hospital LOS
Acute mental health crisis
ED closures
Lack of adequate health insurance
What is the ENA?✔✔Emergency Nurses Association
What does the ENA do?✔✔Provides standards of care
Advances the emergency nursing practice
What is needed to join the ENA?✔✔A certification called a CEN
At least 1 year of work in an emergency enviornment
What is the ESI?✔✔The emergency severity index used to categorize patients
to insure that the most critical are treated first
The ESI scale goes from ESI-1 to ESI-5 which is the most stable and which is the
most severe?✔✔ESI-1: most severe
ESI-5: most stable
What 4 things is the ESI scale based on?✔✔Stability of vital functions (ABCs)
Life/organ threat
How soon pt should be seen by a HCP
