I. Introduction
A. Attention-getter: I used to go to the ER in Raleigh General hospital when my daughter had any kind of sickness like high fever or vomiting. I used to be upset when the ER nurse called someone who was there for 15 minutes while we had been waiting for over an hour.
B. Introduce Topic: The triage process works on the premise that patients who have a threat to life must be treated before other patients. It is one of the important assessment skills needed by emergency nurses.
C. Establish credibility/Relate topic to audience: After working as a Licensed Nurse for a year and being an RN student, I understood the value of triage and why it is very important.
D. Thesis: Triage identifies and categories patients so that the most …show more content…
With regard to triage systems, the assigned priority level should correspond with the actual degree of urgency.
D. ER is overcrowded most of the times. In short amount of time, an ER nurse has to determine which patient they need to see first in order to save more lives.
III. The Five Level Triage:
Five level triage systems are therefore recommended by national and international societies for emergency medicine and this level is known as Emergency Severity Index.
A. Level 1- Critical - Needs Resuscitation, requires immediate lifesaving intervention. Examples include heart attack, severe injuries, severe bleeding, shock, etc.
B. Level 2- High Risk- Emergent, based on acuity which means level of severity of an illness. People in this group suffer from a critical illness or are in very severe pain. People with serious chest pains, difficulty in breathing and severe fractures are included in this group.
C. Level 3- Moderate Risk– Urgent, based on resources, if the VS are out of the normal range, this patient's classification moves up to a category 2. This patient could wait in the waiting room as long as the VS remain stable. (Vital signs mean blood pressure, oxygen saturation, respiration, pain level and heart rate.) People in this group suffer from severe illness, bleed heavily from cuts, have major fractures, or be
A. Attention-getter: I used to go to the ER in Raleigh General hospital when my daughter had any kind of sickness like high fever or vomiting. I used to be upset when the ER nurse called someone who was there for 15 minutes while we had been waiting for over an hour.
B. Introduce Topic: The triage process works on the premise that patients who have a threat to life must be treated before other patients. It is one of the important assessment skills needed by emergency nurses.
C. Establish credibility/Relate topic to audience: After working as a Licensed Nurse for a year and being an RN student, I understood the value of triage and why it is very important.
D. Thesis: Triage identifies and categories patients so that the most …show more content…
With regard to triage systems, the assigned priority level should correspond with the actual degree of urgency.
D. ER is overcrowded most of the times. In short amount of time, an ER nurse has to determine which patient they need to see first in order to save more lives.
III. The Five Level Triage:
Five level triage systems are therefore recommended by national and international societies for emergency medicine and this level is known as Emergency Severity Index.
A. Level 1- Critical - Needs Resuscitation, requires immediate lifesaving intervention. Examples include heart attack, severe injuries, severe bleeding, shock, etc.
B. Level 2- High Risk- Emergent, based on acuity which means level of severity of an illness. People in this group suffer from a critical illness or are in very severe pain. People with serious chest pains, difficulty in breathing and severe fractures are included in this group.
C. Level 3- Moderate Risk– Urgent, based on resources, if the VS are out of the normal range, this patient's classification moves up to a category 2. This patient could wait in the waiting room as long as the VS remain stable. (Vital signs mean blood pressure, oxygen saturation, respiration, pain level and heart rate.) People in this group suffer from severe illness, bleed heavily from cuts, have major fractures, or be