Journal of Emergency Nursing Awards

The Journal of Emergency Nursing is ENA’s official peer-reviewed journal that features original research and updates from the emergency nursing field, while also covering practice and professional issues.

Authors of the Year Award

Matthew J. Douma, MN, RN; Calah Myhre, BScN; Samina Ali, MD; Tim A.D. Graham, MD; Kim Ruether, MA; Peter G. Brindley, MD; Katie N. Dainty, PhD; Katherine E. Smith, MD; Carmel L. Montgomery, PhD; Liz Dennet, MLIS; Christopher Picard, MN; Kate Frazer, PhD and Thilo Kroll, PhD for their research paper, “What Are the Care Needs of Families Experiencing Sudden Cardiac Arrest? A Survivor- and Family-Performed Systematic Review, Qualitative Meta-Synthesis, and Clinical Practice Recommendations.”

Lead Author Matthew J. Douma is a clinical nurse specialist and team lead with the University of Alberta Hospital, General Systems Intensive Care Unit and Edmonton Firefighters’ Burn Treatment Unit. His goal is to reduce the morbidity and mortality that results from life-threatening illness and injury in the out-of-hospital and in-hospital settings.

Douma has served on the JEN editorial board since 2019. He was editor-in-chief of the Canadian Journal of Emergency Nursing for 10 years, ending in 2023.

Douma is grateful for his three children, ages 9, 7 and 5, as well as his supportive and forgiving partner who has been with him and survived their pandemic and PhD journey together.

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Authors of the Year Award

Dawn Peta, BN, ENC(C), RN, Lead Author

Dawn Peta, BN, RN, ENC(C); Alison Day, PhD, PGCE, RN, FAEN; Walter Sergio Lugari, BSN, RN, FKP-NP; Vanessa Gorman, MSN, BSN, RN; Nurul’Ain Ahayalimudin, PhD, RN, CEN, OHN; and Vientiane Melchizedek T. Pajo, BSN, RN, CEN, TCRN for their clinical paper, “Triage – A Global Perspective.”

Lead author Dawn Peta, BN, RN, ENC(C), has been published more than 10 times in the past five years, along with contributing to a textbook chapter publication. She is an editor with the Canadian Journal of Emergency Nursing. Peta recently worked with two emergency nurses, one in Canada and one in the United States, to help them achieve their publication goals and would like to mentor others to do the same.

Peta is immediate past-president of the National Emergency Nurses Association in Canada. In 2023, she organized NENA’s first political event on Parliament to replicate what ENA does for Day on the Hill: to ensure emergency nurse voices are moving beyond the bedside to advocate for safer patient care and staff safety. An ENA member since 2017, Peta is the first international chair of the ENA Position Statement Committee. She has authored three resolutions for ENA General Assembly and has been a delegate every year since 2018.

Peta, who is a clinical instructor for Alberta Health Services, Rural South West Acute, also co-chairs the Banff Rural Emergency Conference.

Judith Young Bradford, DNS, MSN, RN, FAEN. In addition to the work she brings to the Journal of Emergency Nursing, Judith Young Bradford has been a reviewer for grants and research abstracts for poster presenters. She has served on numerous ENA committees and is active with the Mississippi ENA State Council. She recently retired from the School of Nursing, Southeastern Louisiana University, where she was a professor. Bradford currently serves on the ENA Position Statement Committee. She was a member of the Clinical Practice Guideline Committee for 12 years, including three as chair, and she chaired the Academy of Emergency Nursing Board. She also served as an expert to collaborate on a clinical practice guideline on the prevention of blood culture contamination with the American Society of Microbiology, which has been submitted for publication.