Improve your knowledge and skills with these educational e-learning modules and resources about emergency care.
Nursing training
Emergency care assessment and treatment (ECAT) education pathway
Safe and confident transition to using the ECAT protocols for nurses.
Emergency Care Institute (ECI)
Emergency nursing education and training
NSW standardised emergency nursing education pathway, guiding nurses as they develop from novice to expert.
Health Education and Training Institute
Emergency triage education kit
A resource for nurse educators to the consistent application of the Australasian Triage Scale in hospital emergency departments.
Commonwealth Department of Health
Transition to practice emergency nursing program (TTPENP)
Nurses can begin developing a broad knowledge and clinical skill base, required to care for emergency patients.
NSW Health
First line emergency care course (FLECC)
This course prepares rural or remote registered nurses to provide early appropriate management of acute and life-threatening conditions, and to relieve pain and discomfort for patients at hospitals where medical officers are not immediately available. This course is only available to NSW Health employees in rural and regional local health districts. Contact your local nurse educator for more information.
Australian College of Nursing and Rural Critical Care Taskforce
Clinical initiatives nurse
Understand the clinical initiatives nurse role in providing nursing care to patients in emergency department waiting rooms.
ECI
Medical training
Emergency medicine certificate and diploma for non-specialist doctors
Training in knowledge and skills to manage and treat patients with common emergency presentations.
Australasian College for Emergency Medicine
Emergency medicine networks training program
A coordinated, networked approach to training that brings together emergency medicine trainees, hospital specialists and the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine for this in person training.
Health Education and Training Institute
Other training resources
Clinical equipment user manual library
Manuals for specific pieces of equipment and recommendations for what to use in the emergency department. Access via Clinical Information Access Portal (CIAP) for NSW Health staff.
Emergency medicine cases
Podcast, blog, videos and case studies of various aspects emergency medicine.
The Schwartz/Reisman Emergency Medicine Institute Canadian Resources
LearnEM
Management of acutely ill or injured patients. The training is suited for nurses, doctors, paramedics and students working in prehospital, community or hospital-based circumstances.
Learn Emergency Medicine
onthewards
Blogs, podcasts and guides for junior doctors to provide patient-centred care.
onthewards.org
Red flag modules
Training presentations based on root cause analyses that offer pertinent lessons for clinicians, students and those managing clinical environments.
ECI