Assessment and triage -- Triage -- Patient assessment and vital signs -- Nursing history and the interview -- Chest sounds -- Cardiac status and heart sounds -- Neurological assessment -- Basic radiology in the emergency department -- The life line-airways and respiration -- Airway management -- Acid-base balance and arterial blood gas analysis -- Respiratory emergencies -- Cornerstones of clinical management -- Cardiac emergencies and advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) guidelines -- Electrocardiograms and dysrhythmias -- Cardiovascular emergencies -- Trauma life support guidelines -- Shock -- Multisystems trauma -- Head,spinal cord,and facial trauma -- Orthopedic trauma -- Burns -- Medical and surgical emergencies -- Surface trauma and wound management -- the acute abdomen -- Genitourinary emergencies and STDs -- Obstetric and gynecologic emergencies -- Eye,ear,nose,and throat emergencies -- Pediatric medical/surgical emergencies and trauma life support guidelines -- Medical emergencies -- Pharmacology review -- Substance abuse and toxicology -- Psychiatric and behavioral crises -- Emergency department management and professional issues -- Legal implications -- Role of the medical examiner,organ procurement -- Communications -- Disaster management -- Emergency department management

1. Emergency service
2. hospital -- nurses' instruction
3. Critical care -- nurses' instruction
4. Emergency nursing