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ICEN 2026 - Program

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Wednesday, October 14, 2026

Concurrent Stream 1
Concurrent Stream 2
Concurrent Stream 3
Pre-Conference Workshops
Harbour View One
Harbour View Two
Chancellor Room 6
8:15 AM - 10:00 AM Workshop 1: Writing, Peer Review and Publishing for Success in Emergency Care: Strengthening Evidence-informed Practice with Impact Workshop 3: HIRAID® Instructor Course - Safer, sustained emergency nursing care with HIRAID® Part A-B Workshop 4: Triage Skills Workshop - Part B: Paediatric and obstetric triage
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Morning Tea - workshop attendess only
10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Workshop 2: The Ripple Effect - Welfare for a busy ED Workshop 3: HIRAID® Instructor Course - Safer, sustained emergency nursing care with HIRAID® Part A-B cont. Workshop 4: Triage Skills Workshop - Part B: Paediatric and obstetric triage cont.
12:15 PM - 1:00 PM Break
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM Conference Opening and Welcome to Country
1:30 PM - 1:40 PM Welcome
Welcome Her Excellency the Honourable Caroline Wells Governor of Tasmania and Dr Rob Walters
1:40 PM - 2:25 PM Never Underestimate the Difference You Can Make
Petra Brysiewicz
2:25 PM - 2:45 PM World Federation of Emergency Nurses
Petra Brysiewicz & Julia Morphet
2:45 PM - 3:15 PM Afternoon Tea and Exhibiton Opening
Concurrent Session 1
Moments That Matter: Advancing Triage Practice and Clinical Decision-Making
Concurrent Session 2
Meaning Through Design: Building Reliable Emergency Systems
Concurrent Session 3
Moments That Matter: Translating Evidence into Emergency Care
3:15 PM - 3:35 PM An observational study on emergency department triage nurses' scope of practice
Julie Considine
The impact of mass gathering events on emergency department services: A retrospective study of 600 events in Queensland
Jamie Ranse
The Factors that Influence Escalation Practices for Deteriorating Patients in an Australian Emergency Department
Na Wang
3:40 PM - 4:00 PM Emergency Nurse Clinical Decision Making at Triage in Australia
Samantha Rudman
Triage: How Long Does it Take? A Multi-centre Time-in-Motion Study of Emergency Department Triage Processes
Gladis Kabil
Insights From Australian Emergency and Haematology Nurses Assessing Patients with Neutropenia
Christine Mackey
4:05 PM - 4:25 PM Safety at the front door: consolidating the evidence around the roles and activities of triage nurses - a scoping review
Cayce Wylie
From Variability to Reliability: Standardising Emergency Equipment Across Rural Emergency Departments
Jessica Keady
Pathways and protocols for timely ED cardiac care: Results from a multi-study project examining characteristics of PACSA use
Penelope Patterson
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Welcome Reception
Concurrent Stream 1
Concurrent Stream 2
Pre-Conference Workshops
Harbour View One
Harbour View Two
8:15 AM - 10:00 AM Workshop 1: Writing, Peer Review and Publishing for Success in Emergency Care: Strengthening Evidence-informed Practice with Impact Workshop 3: HIRAID® Instructor Course - Safer, sustained emergency nursing care with HIRAID® Part A-B
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Morning Tea - workshop attendess only
10:30 AM - 12:15 PM Workshop 2: The Ripple Effect - Welfare for a busy ED Workshop 3: HIRAID® Instructor Course - Safer, sustained emergency nursing care with HIRAID® Part A-B cont.
12:15 PM - 1:00 PM Break
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM Conference Opening and Welcome to Country
1:30 PM - 1:40 PM Welcome
Welcome Her Excellency the Honourable Caroline Wells Governor of Tasmania and Dr Rob Walters
1:40 PM - 2:25 PM Never Underestimate the Difference You Can Make
Petra Brysiewicz
2:25 PM - 2:45 PM World Federation of Emergency Nurses
Petra Brysiewicz & Julia Morphet
2:45 PM - 3:15 PM Afternoon Tea and Exhibiton Opening
Concurrent Session 1
Moments That Matter: Advancing Triage Practice and Clinical Decision-Making
Concurrent Session 2
Meaning Through Design: Building Reliable Emergency Systems
3:15 PM - 3:35 PM An observational study on emergency department triage nurses' scope of practice
Julie Considine
The impact of mass gathering events on emergency department services: A retrospective study of 600 events in Queensland
Jamie Ranse
3:40 PM - 4:00 PM Emergency Nurse Clinical Decision Making at Triage in Australia
Samantha Rudman
Triage: How Long Does it Take? A Multi-centre Time-in-Motion Study of Emergency Department Triage Processes
Gladis Kabil
4:05 PM - 4:25 PM Safety at the front door: consolidating the evidence around the roles and activities of triage nurses - a scoping review
Cayce Wylie
From Variability to Reliability: Standardising Emergency Equipment Across Rural Emergency Departments
Jessica Keady
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Welcome Reception






Thursday, October 15, 2026

Concurrent Stream 1
Concurrent Stream 2
Concurrent Stream 3
Concurrent Stream 4
8:20 AM - 8:30 AM Introduction Day 2
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM Connecting Across the Blue Pacific: Launching the Oceania Emergency Nurses Special Interest Group
Karen Hammad & Sarah Bornstein
9:00 AM - 9:55 AM The last emergency: creating space for dying in emergency care
Natalie Anderson
9:55 AM - 10:25 AM Morning Tea - Day 2
Concurrent Session 4
Meaning Through Design: Co-Designing Better Experiences for Patients and Families
Concurrent Session 5
Moments That Matter: Recognition, Response and Clinical Rescue
Concurrent Session 6
Meaning Through Design: Leading Change in Emergency Care Systems
Concurrent Session 7
Meaningful Place: Strengthening Emergency Nursing Across the Pacific
10:25 AM - 10:45 AM Co-design of a framework for person-centred care at ED triage and waiting room
Carrie Janerka
Enhancing Paediatric Emergency Deterioration Recognition in Regional Tasmania: Implementing the Optimus Paediatric CORE and PRIME Program in the Emergency Department
Erin Quirke
A Rural Emergency Department Model of Care to Improve Patient Flow and Access: The Parkes Experience
Jessica Keady
From Knowledge to Impact: Strengthening Basic Emergency Care in the Pacific Region
Sarah Bornstein
10:50 AM - 11:10 AM See Me. Explain to Me. Keep Me Safe: Co designing Emergency Nursing that works for mental health patients and nurses
Margaret Murphy
Frontline Precision: Rapid Multidisciplinary Trauma Response in a Regional Emergency Department
Erin Quirke & Jess Murray
Managing the Wait: Information and Communication Tools for Managing the ED Waiting Room
Renee Walsh
Leadership as Patient Safety: Strengthening Senior Emergency Nursing Leadership in a Low-Resource ED in Papua New Guinea
Laura Layton
11:15 AM - 11:35 AM Do you hear me? Nurses' experiences of recognising and responding to parental concern in the ED waiting room
Leah Woodford
Front Door Frailty Identification Reduces Admissions and Length of Stay in the ED
Kate Sandry
Surveying NSW Police Officers’ and Paramedics’ Decision-making Processes when Using the Mental Health Act
Jessica Roppa
Frontline realities of island nursing: navigating triage, pre-hospital care, and workforce challenges at Rarotonga Hospital, Cook Islands
Naibuka Natuna
11:40 AM - 12:00 PM Consumer perspectives of emergency department catheters – What is their experience?
Sarah Wiggs
Moments that Matter after the Moment: Lessons learned from a Structured ED Cold Debrief Program
Deborah Edwards & Bec Cole
Nurses’ experiences and perceptions of an emergency transition to specialty practice program in regional Australia: A Qualitative Descriptive Study
Casey Lykles
Implementing emergency triage in a small island nation
Karen Hammad
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Lunch - Day 2
12:10 PM - 1:00 PM Leadership Speed Dating Lunch
Jamie Ranse, Margaret Murphy, Tomi Omoya, James Hughes, Carrie Janerka, Sarah Bornstein, Trish Allen, Rebecca Caulfield
Concurrent Session 8
Meaning, Identity and Growth in Emergency Nursing
Concurrent Session 9
Moments That Matter: Caring for Patients in Vulnerable and Uncertain Circumstances
Concurrent Session 10
Navigating Advancements in Digital Technology and Connected Emergency Care
Concurrent Session 11
Moments That Matter: Advancing Everyday Emergency Nursing Practice
1:00 PM - 1:20 PM One Cohort, Stronger Outcomes: Building Confidence, Connection and Retention in the ED for Graduate Nurses
Erika Moir & Madeleine Dunn
Exploring care provided to victim-survivors of Domestic and Family Violence presenting to Emergency Departments: opportunities for intervention?
Naomi Derrick
Advancing Triage Education Using LLM-Based Simulation: A Quality Improvement Study in the Emergency Department
Katrina Junia
Nurse-initiated care for paediatric patients in the emergency department
Danielle Parrett
1:25 PM - 1:45 PM Secondary Traumatic Stress in Emergency Department Doctors and Nurses: An Integrative Review
Ellie Burnitt
Early Hours, Critical Moments: A Retrospective Audit of End-of-Life Care in the Emergency Department
Melissa Heufel
Telehealth-supported resuscitation in rural emergency departments: A human factors perspective
Katherine Riley
Creating Meaningful Care Through Evidence-Based Practice: Assessing Emergency Department Clinicians’ Adherence to the National Peripheral Intravenous Catheter Clinical Care Standard
Grace Xu
1:50 PM - 2:10 PM The Scope of Nursing Practice in the Emergency Department Resuscitation Area: A Nested Cohort Review
Josephine Rheinberger
A Qualitative Evaluation of a Palliative Care Education Program for Paramedics
Tomi Omoya
When Virtual Care Goes Dark: Lessons from a Critical Care Emergency During Telecommunications Failure in Rural NSW
Jessica Keady
Patient Assessment and Management Expectations in Australian Emergency Nursing: A Policy Review
Taneal Wiseman
2:15 PM - 2:35 PM Occupational Wellbeing Among Australian Emergency Clinicians: A Longitudinal Comparison of Nurses and Doctors
Elizabeth Elder
The Patients Who Stay: Emergency Nurses’ Experience of Patient Outcome Ambiguity
Rebecca Caulfield
NOT QUIET ED - Noise Over time, Quantified Understanding of Individualised Exposure Over Time in the Emergency Department - Nursing
Anna Mysliborski
Trauma-Informed Recognition of Postnatal PTSD in Rural ED: A Nurse Practitioner Case
Hanneke Loechel
2:40 PM - 3:10 PM Afternoon Tea - Day 2
3:10 PM - 3:40 PM When meaningful work hurts: from clinician harm to system repair
Natalie Anderson
3:40 PM - 4:00 PM
Why we stay?
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM Franklin River Rescue and Resuscitation Panel Discussion
Chair: Brian Doyle, Deborah Edwards, Mitchell Parkinson, Ash Gibb, Vic Trubdoy, Lori Coulson, Ashley Spence, Gabrielle Minucci
4:45 PM - 5:45 PM CENA Annual General Meeting
Concurrent Stream 1
Concurrent Stream 2
8:20 AM - 8:30 AM Introduction Day 2
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM Connecting Across the Blue Pacific: Launching the Oceania Emergency Nurses Special Interest Group
Karen Hammad & Sarah Bornstein
9:00 AM - 9:55 AM The last emergency: creating space for dying in emergency care
Natalie Anderson
9:55 AM - 10:25 AM Morning Tea - Day 2
Concurrent Session 4
Meaning Through Design: Co-Designing Better Experiences for Patients and Families
Concurrent Session 5
Moments That Matter: Recognition, Response and Clinical Rescue
10:25 AM - 10:45 AM Co-design of a framework for person-centred care at ED triage and waiting room
Carrie Janerka
Enhancing Paediatric Emergency Deterioration Recognition in Regional Tasmania: Implementing the Optimus Paediatric CORE and PRIME Program in the Emergency Department
Erin Quirke
10:50 AM - 11:10 AM See Me. Explain to Me. Keep Me Safe: Co designing Emergency Nursing that works for mental health patients and nurses
Margaret Murphy
Frontline Precision: Rapid Multidisciplinary Trauma Response in a Regional Emergency Department
Erin Quirke & Jess Murray
11:15 AM - 11:35 AM Do you hear me? Nurses' experiences of recognising and responding to parental concern in the ED waiting room
Leah Woodford
Front Door Frailty Identification Reduces Admissions and Length of Stay in the ED
Kate Sandry
11:40 AM - 12:00 PM Consumer perspectives of emergency department catheters – What is their experience?
Sarah Wiggs
Moments that Matter after the Moment: Lessons learned from a Structured ED Cold Debrief Program
Deborah Edwards & Bec Cole
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Lunch - Day 2
12:10 PM - 1:00 PM Leadership Speed Dating Lunch
Jamie Ranse, Margaret Murphy, Tomi Omoya, James Hughes, Carrie Janerka, Sarah Bornstein, Trish Allen, Rebecca Caulfield
Concurrent Session 8
Meaning, Identity and Growth in Emergency Nursing
Concurrent Session 9
Moments That Matter: Caring for Patients in Vulnerable and Uncertain Circumstances
1:00 PM - 1:20 PM One Cohort, Stronger Outcomes: Building Confidence, Connection and Retention in the ED for Graduate Nurses
Erika Moir & Madeleine Dunn
Exploring care provided to victim-survivors of Domestic and Family Violence presenting to Emergency Departments: opportunities for intervention?
Naomi Derrick
1:25 PM - 1:45 PM Secondary Traumatic Stress in Emergency Department Doctors and Nurses: An Integrative Review
Ellie Burnitt
Early Hours, Critical Moments: A Retrospective Audit of End-of-Life Care in the Emergency Department
Melissa Heufel
1:50 PM - 2:10 PM The Scope of Nursing Practice in the Emergency Department Resuscitation Area: A Nested Cohort Review
Josephine Rheinberger
A Qualitative Evaluation of a Palliative Care Education Program for Paramedics
Tomi Omoya
2:15 PM - 2:35 PM Occupational Wellbeing Among Australian Emergency Clinicians: A Longitudinal Comparison of Nurses and Doctors
Elizabeth Elder
The Patients Who Stay: Emergency Nurses’ Experience of Patient Outcome Ambiguity
Rebecca Caulfield
2:40 PM - 3:10 PM Afternoon Tea - Day 2
3:10 PM - 3:40 PM When meaningful work hurts: from clinician harm to system repair
Natalie Anderson
3:40 PM - 4:00 PM
Why we stay?
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM Franklin River Rescue and Resuscitation Panel Discussion
Chair: Brian Doyle, Deborah Edwards, Mitchell Parkinson, Ash Gibb, Vic Trubdoy, Lori Coulson, Ashley Spence, Gabrielle Minucci
4:45 PM - 5:45 PM CENA Annual General Meeting

Concurrent Stream 3
Concurrent Stream 4
8:20 AM - 8:30 AM Introduction Day 2
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM Connecting Across the Blue Pacific: Launching the Oceania Emergency Nurses Special Interest Group
Karen Hammad & Sarah Bornstein
9:00 AM - 9:55 AM The last emergency: creating space for dying in emergency care
Natalie Anderson
9:55 AM - 10:25 AM Morning Tea - Day 2
Concurrent Session 6
Meaning Through Design: Leading Change in Emergency Care Systems
Concurrent Session 7
Meaningful Place: Strengthening Emergency Nursing Across the Pacific
10:25 AM - 10:45 AM A Rural Emergency Department Model of Care to Improve Patient Flow and Access: The Parkes Experience
Jessica Keady
From Knowledge to Impact: Strengthening Basic Emergency Care in the Pacific Region
Sarah Bornstein
10:50 AM - 11:10 AM Managing the Wait: Information and Communication Tools for Managing the ED Waiting Room
Renee Walsh
Leadership as Patient Safety: Strengthening Senior Emergency Nursing Leadership in a Low-Resource ED in Papua New Guinea
Laura Layton
11:15 AM - 11:35 AM Surveying NSW Police Officers’ and Paramedics’ Decision-making Processes when Using the Mental Health Act
Jessica Roppa
Frontline realities of island nursing: navigating triage, pre-hospital care, and workforce challenges at Rarotonga Hospital, Cook Islands
Naibuka Natuna
11:40 AM - 12:00 PM Nurses’ experiences and perceptions of an emergency transition to specialty practice program in regional Australia: A Qualitative Descriptive Study
Casey Lykles
Implementing emergency triage in a small island nation
Karen Hammad
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Lunch - Day 2
12:10 PM - 1:00 PM Leadership Speed Dating Lunch
Jamie Ranse, Margaret Murphy, Tomi Omoya, James Hughes, Carrie Janerka, Sarah Bornstein, Trish Allen, Rebecca Caulfield
Concurrent Session 10
Navigating Advancements in Digital Technology and Connected Emergency Care
Concurrent Session 11
Moments That Matter: Advancing Everyday Emergency Nursing Practice
1:00 PM - 1:20 PM Advancing Triage Education Using LLM-Based Simulation: A Quality Improvement Study in the Emergency Department
Katrina Junia
Nurse-initiated care for paediatric patients in the emergency department
Danielle Parrett
1:25 PM - 1:45 PM Telehealth-supported resuscitation in rural emergency departments: A human factors perspective
Katherine Riley
Creating Meaningful Care Through Evidence-Based Practice: Assessing Emergency Department Clinicians’ Adherence to the National Peripheral Intravenous Catheter Clinical Care Standard
Grace Xu
1:50 PM - 2:10 PM When Virtual Care Goes Dark: Lessons from a Critical Care Emergency During Telecommunications Failure in Rural NSW
Jessica Keady
Patient Assessment and Management Expectations in Australian Emergency Nursing: A Policy Review
Taneal Wiseman
2:15 PM - 2:35 PM NOT QUIET ED - Noise Over time, Quantified Understanding of Individualised Exposure Over Time in the Emergency Department - Nursing
Anna Mysliborski
Trauma-Informed Recognition of Postnatal PTSD in Rural ED: A Nurse Practitioner Case
Hanneke Loechel
2:40 PM - 3:10 PM Afternoon Tea - Day 2
3:10 PM - 3:40 PM When meaningful work hurts: from clinician harm to system repair
Natalie Anderson
3:40 PM - 4:00 PM
Why we stay?
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM Franklin River Rescue and Resuscitation Panel Discussion
Chair: Brian Doyle, Deborah Edwards, Mitchell Parkinson, Ash Gibb, Vic Trubdoy, Lori Coulson, Ashley Spence, Gabrielle Minucci
4:45 PM - 5:45 PM CENA Annual General Meeting

Concurrent Stream 1
8:20 AM - 8:30 AM Introduction Day 2
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM Connecting Across the Blue Pacific: Launching the Oceania Emergency Nurses Special Interest Group
Karen Hammad & Sarah Bornstein
9:00 AM - 9:55 AM The last emergency: creating space for dying in emergency care
Natalie Anderson
9:55 AM - 10:25 AM Morning Tea - Day 2
Concurrent Session 4
Meaning Through Design: Co-Designing Better Experiences for Patients and Families
10:25 AM - 10:45 AM Co-design of a framework for person-centred care at ED triage and waiting room
Carrie Janerka
10:50 AM - 11:10 AM See Me. Explain to Me. Keep Me Safe: Co designing Emergency Nursing that works for mental health patients and nurses
Margaret Murphy
11:15 AM - 11:35 AM Do you hear me? Nurses' experiences of recognising and responding to parental concern in the ED waiting room
Leah Woodford
11:40 AM - 12:00 PM Consumer perspectives of emergency department catheters – What is their experience?
Sarah Wiggs
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Lunch - Day 2
12:10 PM - 1:00 PM Leadership Speed Dating Lunch
Jamie Ranse, Margaret Murphy, Tomi Omoya, James Hughes, Carrie Janerka, Sarah Bornstein, Trish Allen, Rebecca Caulfield
Concurrent Session 8
Meaning, Identity and Growth in Emergency Nursing
1:00 PM - 1:20 PM One Cohort, Stronger Outcomes: Building Confidence, Connection and Retention in the ED for Graduate Nurses
Erika Moir & Madeleine Dunn
1:25 PM - 1:45 PM Secondary Traumatic Stress in Emergency Department Doctors and Nurses: An Integrative Review
Ellie Burnitt
1:50 PM - 2:10 PM The Scope of Nursing Practice in the Emergency Department Resuscitation Area: A Nested Cohort Review
Josephine Rheinberger
2:15 PM - 2:35 PM Occupational Wellbeing Among Australian Emergency Clinicians: A Longitudinal Comparison of Nurses and Doctors
Elizabeth Elder
2:40 PM - 3:10 PM Afternoon Tea - Day 2
3:10 PM - 3:40 PM When meaningful work hurts: from clinician harm to system repair
Natalie Anderson
3:40 PM - 4:00 PM
Why we stay?
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM Franklin River Rescue and Resuscitation Panel Discussion
Chair: Brian Doyle, Deborah Edwards, Mitchell Parkinson, Ash Gibb, Vic Trubdoy, Lori Coulson, Ashley Spence, Gabrielle Minucci
4:45 PM - 5:45 PM CENA Annual General Meeting

Concurrent Stream 2
8:20 AM - 8:30 AM Introduction Day 2
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM Connecting Across the Blue Pacific: Launching the Oceania Emergency Nurses Special Interest Group
Karen Hammad & Sarah Bornstein
9:00 AM - 9:55 AM The last emergency: creating space for dying in emergency care
Natalie Anderson
9:55 AM - 10:25 AM Morning Tea - Day 2
Concurrent Session 5
Moments That Matter: Recognition, Response and Clinical Rescue
10:25 AM - 10:45 AM Enhancing Paediatric Emergency Deterioration Recognition in Regional Tasmania: Implementing the Optimus Paediatric CORE and PRIME Program in the Emergency Department
Erin Quirke
10:50 AM - 11:10 AM Frontline Precision: Rapid Multidisciplinary Trauma Response in a Regional Emergency Department
Erin Quirke & Jess Murray
11:15 AM - 11:35 AM Front Door Frailty Identification Reduces Admissions and Length of Stay in the ED
Kate Sandry
11:40 AM - 12:00 PM Moments that Matter after the Moment: Lessons learned from a Structured ED Cold Debrief Program
Deborah Edwards & Bec Cole
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Lunch - Day 2
12:10 PM - 1:00 PM Leadership Speed Dating Lunch
Jamie Ranse, Margaret Murphy, Tomi Omoya, James Hughes, Carrie Janerka, Sarah Bornstein, Trish Allen, Rebecca Caulfield
Concurrent Session 9
Moments That Matter: Caring for Patients in Vulnerable and Uncertain Circumstances
1:00 PM - 1:20 PM Exploring care provided to victim-survivors of Domestic and Family Violence presenting to Emergency Departments: opportunities for intervention?
Naomi Derrick
1:25 PM - 1:45 PM Early Hours, Critical Moments: A Retrospective Audit of End-of-Life Care in the Emergency Department
Melissa Heufel
1:50 PM - 2:10 PM A Qualitative Evaluation of a Palliative Care Education Program for Paramedics
Tomi Omoya
2:15 PM - 2:35 PM The Patients Who Stay: Emergency Nurses’ Experience of Patient Outcome Ambiguity
Rebecca Caulfield
2:40 PM - 3:10 PM Afternoon Tea - Day 2
3:10 PM - 3:40 PM When meaningful work hurts: from clinician harm to system repair
Natalie Anderson
3:40 PM - 4:00 PM
Why we stay?
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM Franklin River Rescue and Resuscitation Panel Discussion
Chair: Brian Doyle, Deborah Edwards, Mitchell Parkinson, Ash Gibb, Vic Trubdoy, Lori Coulson, Ashley Spence, Gabrielle Minucci
4:45 PM - 5:45 PM CENA Annual General Meeting

Concurrent Stream 3
8:20 AM - 8:30 AM Introduction Day 2
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM Connecting Across the Blue Pacific: Launching the Oceania Emergency Nurses Special Interest Group
Karen Hammad & Sarah Bornstein
9:00 AM - 9:55 AM The last emergency: creating space for dying in emergency care
Natalie Anderson
9:55 AM - 10:25 AM Morning Tea - Day 2
Concurrent Session 6
Meaning Through Design: Leading Change in Emergency Care Systems
10:25 AM - 10:45 AM A Rural Emergency Department Model of Care to Improve Patient Flow and Access: The Parkes Experience
Jessica Keady
10:50 AM - 11:10 AM Managing the Wait: Information and Communication Tools for Managing the ED Waiting Room
Renee Walsh
11:15 AM - 11:35 AM Surveying NSW Police Officers’ and Paramedics’ Decision-making Processes when Using the Mental Health Act
Jessica Roppa
11:40 AM - 12:00 PM Nurses’ experiences and perceptions of an emergency transition to specialty practice program in regional Australia: A Qualitative Descriptive Study
Casey Lykles
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Lunch - Day 2
12:10 PM - 1:00 PM Leadership Speed Dating Lunch
Jamie Ranse, Margaret Murphy, Tomi Omoya, James Hughes, Carrie Janerka, Sarah Bornstein, Trish Allen, Rebecca Caulfield
Concurrent Session 10
Navigating Advancements in Digital Technology and Connected Emergency Care
1:00 PM - 1:20 PM Advancing Triage Education Using LLM-Based Simulation: A Quality Improvement Study in the Emergency Department
Katrina Junia
1:25 PM - 1:45 PM Telehealth-supported resuscitation in rural emergency departments: A human factors perspective
Katherine Riley
1:50 PM - 2:10 PM When Virtual Care Goes Dark: Lessons from a Critical Care Emergency During Telecommunications Failure in Rural NSW
Jessica Keady
2:15 PM - 2:35 PM NOT QUIET ED - Noise Over time, Quantified Understanding of Individualised Exposure Over Time in the Emergency Department - Nursing
Anna Mysliborski
2:40 PM - 3:10 PM Afternoon Tea - Day 2
3:10 PM - 3:40 PM When meaningful work hurts: from clinician harm to system repair
Natalie Anderson
3:40 PM - 4:00 PM
Why we stay?
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM Franklin River Rescue and Resuscitation Panel Discussion
Chair: Brian Doyle, Deborah Edwards, Mitchell Parkinson, Ash Gibb, Vic Trubdoy, Lori Coulson, Ashley Spence, Gabrielle Minucci
4:45 PM - 5:45 PM CENA Annual General Meeting

Concurrent Stream 4
8:20 AM - 8:30 AM Introduction Day 2
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM Connecting Across the Blue Pacific: Launching the Oceania Emergency Nurses Special Interest Group
Karen Hammad & Sarah Bornstein
9:00 AM - 9:55 AM The last emergency: creating space for dying in emergency care
Natalie Anderson
9:55 AM - 10:25 AM Morning Tea - Day 2
Concurrent Session 7
Meaningful Place: Strengthening Emergency Nursing Across the Pacific
10:25 AM - 10:45 AM From Knowledge to Impact: Strengthening Basic Emergency Care in the Pacific Region
Sarah Bornstein
10:50 AM - 11:10 AM Leadership as Patient Safety: Strengthening Senior Emergency Nursing Leadership in a Low-Resource ED in Papua New Guinea
Laura Layton
11:15 AM - 11:35 AM Frontline realities of island nursing: navigating triage, pre-hospital care, and workforce challenges at Rarotonga Hospital, Cook Islands
Naibuka Natuna
11:40 AM - 12:00 PM Implementing emergency triage in a small island nation
Karen Hammad
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Lunch - Day 2
12:10 PM - 1:00 PM Leadership Speed Dating Lunch
Jamie Ranse, Margaret Murphy, Tomi Omoya, James Hughes, Carrie Janerka, Sarah Bornstein, Trish Allen, Rebecca Caulfield
Concurrent Session 11
Moments That Matter: Advancing Everyday Emergency Nursing Practice
1:00 PM - 1:20 PM Nurse-initiated care for paediatric patients in the emergency department
Danielle Parrett
1:25 PM - 1:45 PM Creating Meaningful Care Through Evidence-Based Practice: Assessing Emergency Department Clinicians’ Adherence to the National Peripheral Intravenous Catheter Clinical Care Standard
Grace Xu
1:50 PM - 2:10 PM Patient Assessment and Management Expectations in Australian Emergency Nursing: A Policy Review
Taneal Wiseman
2:15 PM - 2:35 PM Trauma-Informed Recognition of Postnatal PTSD in Rural ED: A Nurse Practitioner Case
Hanneke Loechel
2:40 PM - 3:10 PM Afternoon Tea - Day 2
3:10 PM - 3:40 PM When meaningful work hurts: from clinician harm to system repair
Natalie Anderson
3:40 PM - 4:00 PM
Why we stay?
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM Franklin River Rescue and Resuscitation Panel Discussion
Chair: Brian Doyle, Deborah Edwards, Mitchell Parkinson, Ash Gibb, Vic Trubdoy, Lori Coulson, Ashley Spence, Gabrielle Minucci
4:45 PM - 5:45 PM CENA Annual General Meeting


Friday, October 16, 2026

Concurrent Stream 1
Concurrent Stream 2
Concurrent Stream 3
8:35 AM - 8:45 AM Introduction Day 3
8:45 AM - 9:25 AM iIMPROVE Emergency Care: Multidisciplinary Implementation Research
Lisa Kuhn & Diana Egerton-Warburton
9:25 AM - 10:10 AM Co-designing evidence-based strategies for emergency care
Janet Curran
10:10 AM - 10:30 AM CENA Strategic Direction
Kelli Innes
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Morning Tea - Day 3
Concurrent Session 12
Meaning, Identity and Growth: Embedding Sustainable Practice Change
Concurrent Session 13
Moments That Matter: Innovation for Safer Emergency Care
Concurrent Session 14
Meaning, Identity and Growth: Developing Leaders and Future Workforce
11:00 AM - 11:20 AM Translating Nurse-Initiated Care Protocols into Routine Emergency Department Care
Julie Gawthorne
Diagnostic Accuracy and Clinical Utility of Capnography for Detecting Respiratory Misplacement of Nasogastric Tubes in Emergency and Acute Settings
Harris Lam
Implementation of a Nurse Led Clinical Escalation Response Team to Manage Deterioration in ED
Margaret Murphy
11:25 AM - 11:45 AM Implementation of 73 Nurse-Initiated Protocols in 29 Australian Emergency Departments was Safe and Effective
Sarah Kourouche
Improving pain assessment for older adults with cognitive impairment in the emergency department
Carrie Janerka
Emergency Nursing Workforce and Triage Practice in Papua New Guinea Hospitals
Thompson Telepo
11:50 AM - 12:10 PM Strategies that contribute to sustained practice change in the emergency department: A scoping review
Belinda Kennedy
When Is Sepsis Care Delayed? A Tasmanian Retrospective Emergency Department Study
Marlie Lukic
Salience Sifting: A Heideggerian Model of Patient Outcome Ambiguity in Emergency Nursing
Rebecca Caulfield
Rapid Fire Session 1
Meaning, Identity and Growth in Emergency Nursing: Building Capability for the Future
Rapid Fire Session 2
Moments That Matter: Advancing Safe, Evidence-Informed Emergency Care
Rapid Fire Session 3
Meaning Through Design: Creating Systems That Support Better Emergency Care
12:15 PM - 12:20 PM The Hero’s Path Through Emergency Nursing
Ben McKenzie
Bridging the Delirium Gap: From Evidence Synthesis to an ED-Specific Implementation Strategy
Barbara Zangerl
Beyond Resilience: Designing Emergency Systems That Support Ethical Care
Clare Walters
12:20 PM - 12:25 PM From Idea to Project: Practical Tools for Time-Poor Emergency Nurses
Geoffrey Melville
Expanding Scope, Strengthening Practice: Enabling Nurse-led Protocolised Care in Emergency Nursing
Deborah North
Left Without Treatment: A Comparative Analysis of Emergency Department Patients Who Did Not Wait and the Treated Cohort: Observational Study
Abdi Osman
12:25 PM - 12:30 PM The Impact of Telehealth in Emergency Medicine on Clinician’s Triage Decision Making: A systematic Review
Trung Nguyen
Could it be Sepsis?? Improving emergency sepsis care in North West Tasmania
Kate Stock & Chloe Berwick
Sustainable and Quality Use of VBGs in the Emergency Department
Alice Holten
12:30 PM - 12:35 PM Uptake and usability of a digital solution to assess behaviours of concern in the Emergency Department: A multi-methods study
Belinda Munroe
Clinical pathway use for suspected acute coronary syndrome in Tasmanian emergency departments: a retrospective cohort study
Rishita Chandra
Evaluation of real-time AI screening tool for screening of sepsis in Emergency Department waiting rooms
Gladis Kabil
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM Lunch - including CENA fellows lunch
1:45 PM - 2:15 PM The Power of Keeping It Simple
Petra Brysiewicz
2:15 PM - 3:00 PM Panel: Leading in the Middle: The Challenges and Rewards of Leading Emergency Nursing Teams in 2026
Chair: Janet Curran, Georgina Johnston, Julie Gawthorne, Klytie McKittrick, Lorelle Malyon, Naibuka Natuna, Beth Corrigan, Ellen Burke
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM Afternoon Tea - Day 3
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Care, Crisis and Change: Politics and Healthcare
Lara Giddings
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM Scientific Awards & Conference Close
7:00 PM - 11:00 PM ICEN 2026 Dinner and CENA Awards
Concurrent Stream 1
Concurrent Stream 2
8:35 AM - 8:45 AM Introduction Day 3
8:45 AM - 9:25 AM iIMPROVE Emergency Care: Multidisciplinary Implementation Research
Lisa Kuhn & Diana Egerton-Warburton
9:25 AM - 10:10 AM Co-designing evidence-based strategies for emergency care
Janet Curran
10:10 AM - 10:30 AM CENA Strategic Direction
Kelli Innes
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Morning Tea - Day 3
Concurrent Session 12
Meaning, Identity and Growth: Embedding Sustainable Practice Change
Concurrent Session 13
Moments That Matter: Innovation for Safer Emergency Care
11:00 AM - 11:20 AM Translating Nurse-Initiated Care Protocols into Routine Emergency Department Care
Julie Gawthorne
Diagnostic Accuracy and Clinical Utility of Capnography for Detecting Respiratory Misplacement of Nasogastric Tubes in Emergency and Acute Settings
Harris Lam
11:25 AM - 11:45 AM Implementation of 73 Nurse-Initiated Protocols in 29 Australian Emergency Departments was Safe and Effective
Sarah Kourouche
Improving pain assessment for older adults with cognitive impairment in the emergency department
Carrie Janerka
11:50 AM - 12:10 PM Strategies that contribute to sustained practice change in the emergency department: A scoping review
Belinda Kennedy
When Is Sepsis Care Delayed? A Tasmanian Retrospective Emergency Department Study
Marlie Lukic
Rapid Fire Session 1
Meaning, Identity and Growth in Emergency Nursing: Building Capability for the Future
Rapid Fire Session 2
Moments That Matter: Advancing Safe, Evidence-Informed Emergency Care
12:15 PM - 12:20 PM The Hero’s Path Through Emergency Nursing
Ben McKenzie
Bridging the Delirium Gap: From Evidence Synthesis to an ED-Specific Implementation Strategy
Barbara Zangerl
12:20 PM - 12:25 PM From Idea to Project: Practical Tools for Time-Poor Emergency Nurses
Geoffrey Melville
Expanding Scope, Strengthening Practice: Enabling Nurse-led Protocolised Care in Emergency Nursing
Deborah North
12:25 PM - 12:30 PM The Impact of Telehealth in Emergency Medicine on Clinician’s Triage Decision Making: A systematic Review
Trung Nguyen
Could it be Sepsis?? Improving emergency sepsis care in North West Tasmania
Kate Stock & Chloe Berwick
12:30 PM - 12:35 PM Uptake and usability of a digital solution to assess behaviours of concern in the Emergency Department: A multi-methods study
Belinda Munroe
Clinical pathway use for suspected acute coronary syndrome in Tasmanian emergency departments: a retrospective cohort study
Rishita Chandra
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM Lunch - including CENA fellows lunch
1:45 PM - 2:15 PM The Power of Keeping It Simple
Petra Brysiewicz
2:15 PM - 3:00 PM Panel: Leading in the Middle: The Challenges and Rewards of Leading Emergency Nursing Teams in 2026
Chair: Janet Curran, Georgina Johnston, Julie Gawthorne, Klytie McKittrick, Lorelle Malyon, Naibuka Natuna, Beth Corrigan, Ellen Burke
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM Afternoon Tea - Day 3
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Care, Crisis and Change: Politics and Healthcare
Lara Giddings
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM Scientific Awards & Conference Close
7:00 PM - 11:00 PM ICEN 2026 Dinner and CENA Awards

Concurrent Stream 3
8:35 AM - 8:45 AM Introduction Day 3
8:45 AM - 9:25 AM iIMPROVE Emergency Care: Multidisciplinary Implementation Research
Lisa Kuhn & Diana Egerton-Warburton
9:25 AM - 10:10 AM Co-designing evidence-based strategies for emergency care
Janet Curran
10:10 AM - 10:30 AM CENA Strategic Direction
Kelli Innes
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Morning Tea - Day 3
Concurrent Session 14
Meaning, Identity and Growth: Developing Leaders and Future Workforce
11:00 AM - 11:20 AM Implementation of a Nurse Led Clinical Escalation Response Team to Manage Deterioration in ED
Margaret Murphy
11:25 AM - 11:45 AM Emergency Nursing Workforce and Triage Practice in Papua New Guinea Hospitals
Thompson Telepo
11:50 AM - 12:10 PM Salience Sifting: A Heideggerian Model of Patient Outcome Ambiguity in Emergency Nursing
Rebecca Caulfield
Rapid Fire Session 3
Meaning Through Design: Creating Systems That Support Better Emergency Care
12:15 PM - 12:20 PM Beyond Resilience: Designing Emergency Systems That Support Ethical Care
Clare Walters
12:20 PM - 12:25 PM Left Without Treatment: A Comparative Analysis of Emergency Department Patients Who Did Not Wait and the Treated Cohort: Observational Study
Abdi Osman
12:25 PM - 12:30 PM Sustainable and Quality Use of VBGs in the Emergency Department
Alice Holten
12:30 PM - 12:35 PM Evaluation of real-time AI screening tool for screening of sepsis in Emergency Department waiting rooms
Gladis Kabil
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM Lunch - including CENA fellows lunch
1:45 PM - 2:15 PM The Power of Keeping It Simple
Petra Brysiewicz
2:15 PM - 3:00 PM Panel: Leading in the Middle: The Challenges and Rewards of Leading Emergency Nursing Teams in 2026
Chair: Janet Curran, Georgina Johnston, Julie Gawthorne, Klytie McKittrick, Lorelle Malyon, Naibuka Natuna, Beth Corrigan, Ellen Burke
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM Afternoon Tea - Day 3
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Care, Crisis and Change: Politics and Healthcare
Lara Giddings
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM Scientific Awards & Conference Close
7:00 PM - 11:00 PM ICEN 2026 Dinner and CENA Awards

Concurrent Stream 1
8:35 AM - 8:45 AM Introduction Day 3
8:45 AM - 9:25 AM iIMPROVE Emergency Care: Multidisciplinary Implementation Research
Lisa Kuhn & Diana Egerton-Warburton
9:25 AM - 10:10 AM Co-designing evidence-based strategies for emergency care
Janet Curran
10:10 AM - 10:30 AM CENA Strategic Direction
Kelli Innes
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Morning Tea - Day 3
Concurrent Session 12
Meaning, Identity and Growth: Embedding Sustainable Practice Change
11:00 AM - 11:20 AM Translating Nurse-Initiated Care Protocols into Routine Emergency Department Care
Julie Gawthorne
11:25 AM - 11:45 AM Implementation of 73 Nurse-Initiated Protocols in 29 Australian Emergency Departments was Safe and Effective
Sarah Kourouche
11:50 AM - 12:10 PM Strategies that contribute to sustained practice change in the emergency department: A scoping review
Belinda Kennedy
Rapid Fire Session 1
Meaning, Identity and Growth in Emergency Nursing: Building Capability for the Future
12:15 PM - 12:20 PM The Hero’s Path Through Emergency Nursing
Ben McKenzie
12:20 PM - 12:25 PM From Idea to Project: Practical Tools for Time-Poor Emergency Nurses
Geoffrey Melville
12:25 PM - 12:30 PM The Impact of Telehealth in Emergency Medicine on Clinician’s Triage Decision Making: A systematic Review
Trung Nguyen
12:30 PM - 12:35 PM Uptake and usability of a digital solution to assess behaviours of concern in the Emergency Department: A multi-methods study
Belinda Munroe
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM Lunch - including CENA fellows lunch
1:45 PM - 2:15 PM The Power of Keeping It Simple
Petra Brysiewicz
2:15 PM - 3:00 PM Panel: Leading in the Middle: The Challenges and Rewards of Leading Emergency Nursing Teams in 2026
Chair: Janet Curran, Georgina Johnston, Julie Gawthorne, Klytie McKittrick, Lorelle Malyon, Naibuka Natuna, Beth Corrigan, Ellen Burke
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM Afternoon Tea - Day 3
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Care, Crisis and Change: Politics and Healthcare
Lara Giddings
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM Scientific Awards & Conference Close
7:00 PM - 11:00 PM ICEN 2026 Dinner and CENA Awards

Concurrent Stream 2
8:35 AM - 8:45 AM Introduction Day 3
8:45 AM - 9:25 AM iIMPROVE Emergency Care: Multidisciplinary Implementation Research
Lisa Kuhn & Diana Egerton-Warburton
9:25 AM - 10:10 AM Co-designing evidence-based strategies for emergency care
Janet Curran
10:10 AM - 10:30 AM CENA Strategic Direction
Kelli Innes
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Morning Tea - Day 3
Concurrent Session 13
Moments That Matter: Innovation for Safer Emergency Care
11:00 AM - 11:20 AM Diagnostic Accuracy and Clinical Utility of Capnography for Detecting Respiratory Misplacement of Nasogastric Tubes in Emergency and Acute Settings
Harris Lam
11:25 AM - 11:45 AM Improving pain assessment for older adults with cognitive impairment in the emergency department
Carrie Janerka
11:50 AM - 12:10 PM When Is Sepsis Care Delayed? A Tasmanian Retrospective Emergency Department Study
Marlie Lukic
Rapid Fire Session 2
Moments That Matter: Advancing Safe, Evidence-Informed Emergency Care
12:15 PM - 12:20 PM Bridging the Delirium Gap: From Evidence Synthesis to an ED-Specific Implementation Strategy
Barbara Zangerl
12:20 PM - 12:25 PM Expanding Scope, Strengthening Practice: Enabling Nurse-led Protocolised Care in Emergency Nursing
Deborah North
12:25 PM - 12:30 PM Could it be Sepsis?? Improving emergency sepsis care in North West Tasmania
Kate Stock & Chloe Berwick
12:30 PM - 12:35 PM Clinical pathway use for suspected acute coronary syndrome in Tasmanian emergency departments: a retrospective cohort study
Rishita Chandra
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM Lunch - including CENA fellows lunch
1:45 PM - 2:15 PM The Power of Keeping It Simple
Petra Brysiewicz
2:15 PM - 3:00 PM Panel: Leading in the Middle: The Challenges and Rewards of Leading Emergency Nursing Teams in 2026
Chair: Janet Curran, Georgina Johnston, Julie Gawthorne, Klytie McKittrick, Lorelle Malyon, Naibuka Natuna, Beth Corrigan, Ellen Burke
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM Afternoon Tea - Day 3
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Care, Crisis and Change: Politics and Healthcare
Lara Giddings
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM Scientific Awards & Conference Close
7:00 PM - 11:00 PM ICEN 2026 Dinner and CENA Awards

Concurrent Stream 3
8:35 AM - 8:45 AM Introduction Day 3
8:45 AM - 9:25 AM iIMPROVE Emergency Care: Multidisciplinary Implementation Research
Lisa Kuhn & Diana Egerton-Warburton
9:25 AM - 10:10 AM Co-designing evidence-based strategies for emergency care
Janet Curran
10:10 AM - 10:30 AM CENA Strategic Direction
Kelli Innes
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Morning Tea - Day 3
Concurrent Session 14
Meaning, Identity and Growth: Developing Leaders and Future Workforce
11:00 AM - 11:20 AM Implementation of a Nurse Led Clinical Escalation Response Team to Manage Deterioration in ED
Margaret Murphy
11:25 AM - 11:45 AM Emergency Nursing Workforce and Triage Practice in Papua New Guinea Hospitals
Thompson Telepo
11:50 AM - 12:10 PM Salience Sifting: A Heideggerian Model of Patient Outcome Ambiguity in Emergency Nursing
Rebecca Caulfield
Rapid Fire Session 3
Meaning Through Design: Creating Systems That Support Better Emergency Care
12:15 PM - 12:20 PM Beyond Resilience: Designing Emergency Systems That Support Ethical Care
Clare Walters
12:20 PM - 12:25 PM Left Without Treatment: A Comparative Analysis of Emergency Department Patients Who Did Not Wait and the Treated Cohort: Observational Study
Abdi Osman
12:25 PM - 12:30 PM Sustainable and Quality Use of VBGs in the Emergency Department
Alice Holten
12:30 PM - 12:35 PM Evaluation of real-time AI screening tool for screening of sepsis in Emergency Department waiting rooms
Gladis Kabil
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM Lunch - including CENA fellows lunch
1:45 PM - 2:15 PM The Power of Keeping It Simple
Petra Brysiewicz
2:15 PM - 3:00 PM Panel: Leading in the Middle: The Challenges and Rewards of Leading Emergency Nursing Teams in 2026
Chair: Janet Curran, Georgina Johnston, Julie Gawthorne, Klytie McKittrick, Lorelle Malyon, Naibuka Natuna, Beth Corrigan, Ellen Burke
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM Afternoon Tea - Day 3
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Care, Crisis and Change: Politics and Healthcare
Lara Giddings
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM Scientific Awards & Conference Close
7:00 PM - 11:00 PM ICEN 2026 Dinner and CENA Awards


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