ENA Podcast

From the emergency department to the top of some of the world's tallest peaks, Jeff Evans has learned about leadership, teamwork and trust - and he's excited to share his stories and lessons learned in New Orleans when he keynotes Emergency Nursing 2025. Jeff joins the ENA Podcast to offer a taste of his experiences and why emergency nurses are "his people."

Check out the latest ENA Podcast as it marks the debut of the Emergency Nursing Triage Education Program with first-hand insights about its value from a pilot participant. Jordan Conner-Carlstrom joins the podcast to share how ENTEP helped improve her triage skills, as well as her confidence, to better assess patient acuity while navigating the many challenges faced in the emergency department.

Learn more about the program at ena.org/ENTEP

The ENA Podcast Blast is back this week with headlines featuring an ENA member's day at the beach that involved saving a girl's life; the ED nurse who brings joy to others with her alpaca farm; and the June ENA Member Spotlight.

Nurse Saves Girl at Lake: https://bit.ly/4jWxonm

The Alpaca Rancher: https://bit.ly/4nrhvIH

June ENA Member Spotlight: https://bit.ly/3DLAziO

Common goals focused on delivering the best care possible to patients has been at the heart of the ENA-International Association of Forensic Nurses partnership for years. IAFN CEO Jennifer Pierce-Weeks, a longtime ENA member herself, joins the ENA Podcast to talk about how a strong collaborative relationship between the two associations has proven valuable through joint resource development, advocacy efforts and, ultimately, improving the ways forensic and ED nurses work with each other.

This week's ENA Podcast Blast takes you to South Africa where an ED nurse is pursuing her rugby dreams between shifts; in California, an 18-year-old is already making a name for herself in the emergency department; and, finally, a Navy ED nurse gets new perspectives while on assignment in Guam.

Rugby Aspirations: https://bit.ly/4ktu4kB

Teen Nurse in California ED: https://bit.ly/3FIWWpW

Navy ED Nurse in Guam: https://bit.ly/3SAAceH

Although she experienced it all firsthand over her 50-plus year career - teaching pediatric courses internationally, medical mission trips to far corners of the world and four decades at Chicago's pre-eminent children's hospital - 2025 Judith C. Kelleher Recipient Harriet Hawkins never saw any of it coming when she first got into nursing. Hear more about Hawkins and her journey that reached a new milestone as she received ENA's most prestigious award.

The ENA Podcast highlights Mental Health Awareness Month by welcoming Corey Feist, the CEO and co-founder of the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes Foundation, to talk about the progress and solutions fueling the mission to improve support health care workers' mental health and well-being amid the ongoing challenges of stress, fatigue and burnout impacting emergency nurses and so many others in health care.

As registration for Emergency Nursing 2025 opens, check out the latest ENA Podcast episode featuring ENA Conference Education Planning Committee Co-Chairs Lisa Matamoros and Greg Pittman as they set the stage for some of what you can expect in New Orleans in September.

The ENA Podcast Blast returns during Nurses Week with a look at some of the best stories in emergency nursing. This week, the Blast congratulates a 50-year ED nurse named her hospital's Nurse of the Year and tells you about a Michigan ED nurse's pickleball tournament resuscitation. Plus, Blast highlights Gigi Guan – ENA's May Member Spotlight – and her journey from the stretcherside to a role focused on what happens to patients after they leave the ED.

Nurse of the Year: https://bit.ly/3YCEtle

Pickleball CPR: https://bit.ly/4kb7qNi

May Member Spotlight: https://bit.ly/3DLAziO