Triage, as a concept, is relatively new in Sweden and means 'sorting'. The triage process was developed to grade patients who needed immediate care. Triage is currently important for the emergency treatment system, and nurses are expected to work with it professionally. The aim of this study ...
Today, "triage" is almost exclusively used in specific health care contexts [9]. Iserson and Moskop [9] describe the requirement of three conditions for triage in emergency practice: 1. At least modest scarcity of resources exists. 2. A health care worker (often called a "triage officer"...
Emergency department triage medical screening exams: Can nurses effectively determine non-emergency?: Diane Presley, Valerie Fulbright. Seton medical center, 1201 west 38th St., Austin, TX 78705-1056doi:10.1016/s0099-1767(96)80142-5NoneELSEVIER...
Other strengths of this system included that the triage nurse prioritised patients, as opposed to the receptionist or the administrative staff; and nurses could undertake preliminary investigations without waiting for doctors' orders to do so. The weaknesses of the implemented Cape Triage Score ...
More arrangements ought to be inspected, for example, group triaging, patients palmar filtering, and setting a doctor in triage. Additionally, more pointers ought to be monitored, for example, the adequacy of ER treatment including the rates of revisits. In the course of recent years, data ...
The French Society of Emergency Medicine (SFMU) has recommended the creation of a national scale for the triage of patients upon reception in emergency rooms which accounts for the differences between adults and children. The SFMU's evaluation and quality Committee first created a scale with five...
The first question in the ESI triage algorithm for triage nurses asks whether "the patient requires immediate life-saving interventions" or simply "is the patient dying?" The nurse determines this by looking to see if the patient has a patent airway, is the patient breathing, and does the pa...
Other strengths of this system included that the triage nurse prioritised patients, as opposed to the receptionist or the administrative staff; and nurses could undertake preliminary investigations without waiting for doctors' orders to do so. The weaknesses of the implemented Cape Triage Score ...
A retrospective audit was undertaken on patients with ATSD for 12 months (August 2006-August 2007). The nursing triage sheet and the clinical record forms were used to obtain data detailing the entire patient journey from arrival in the department to discharge. Emergency nurses were less likely ...
Deliberate self‑harm: Emergency department nurses' attitudes, triage and care intentions. J Clin Nurs 2007;16:1704‑11.McCann T; Clark E; McCnnachie S & Harvey I (2007) Deliberate self-harm: emergency department nurses' attitudes, triage and care intentions. Journal of Clinical Nursing ...