Uchunguzi (Journal Watch/Montre de Journal

Increasing demand on emergency healthcare systems through- out Africa means there is a need to develop and harmonise standards of emergency care for the benefit of African popula- tions. This can potentially be achieved by developing guideli- nes for appropriate and high quality education to prepare future generations of emergency healthcare providers for their role in all regions of Africa. With this in mind, the African Emergency Nursing Curriculum was developed by emergency nurses, academics and researchers from Africa and the rest of the world to provide a consensus document to guide the development of harmonised standards of emergency nursing theory and practice across Africa While being very sensitive to the unique needs of each country, this curriculum provides a suggestion of a way to begin to address a very Afrocentric emergency nursing problem and provides a clear, user friendly framework for consideration by emergency nurs- ing educators throughout Africa.