Hospital offering review course for emergency nurse certification

Warwick — St. Anthony Community Hospital will host a Certified Emergency Nurse review course at Mount Alverno Center on Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 5 and 6. The course is open to all registered nurses in the community regardless of their hospital affiliation. Certification, in general, is a mechanism in which the public and employers are able to identify practitioners who have met certain standards in their particular nursing specialty. Because of this, there are certifications in many areas of nursing including, for example, obstetrics, oncology, surgical nursing, critical care and flight nursing. The emergency nurse certification is specific to emergency nursing and measures the attainment of a defined body of nursing knowledge in that specialty. A guest speaker for the upcoming course will be Cathy Fox, R.N., C.E.N. Fox has over 18 years of emergency nursing experience and currently works as the emergency department educator at Bon Secours De Paul Medical Center in Norfolk, Va. She also works in the emergency department of a Level II Trauma Center in Virginia Beach. Fox is a recipient of the National Emergency Nurse Association’s Distinguished Certified Emergency Nurse Award. “Our emergency department provides care to approximately 11,000 patients every year. Healthcare is changing at a rapid rate, and it is only through St. Anthony’s ongoing commitment to provide high-quality education programs that the residents of this community can be assured they are receiving the most up-to-date emergency nursing care in our region,” said Thomas Flynn, R.N., nurse manager of emergency services at St. Anthony’s. To update emergency room nursing skills or prepare for the examination, registered nurses should call 987-5293 or email tflynn@tshs.org.