Triage

effectiveness of the current triage practice under the Hong Kong Accident and Emergency Triage Guidelines. Introduction The Accident and Emergency (A&E) department is one of the most busy department in most of the Hong Kong public hospital. In the A&E department, there are many patients attend to them daily so to be able to ensure that patient in a more serious problem can be able to get higher priority in the hospital, Hospital Authority (HA) utilizes the triage system to classify patients…

Importance of triage, prioritization, delegation and disaster management in emergency nursing. Triage known as sorting or classification and is a process determine of patients treatment priority based on the severity illness or their condition level on arrival at emergency department. Triage originates from French word “Tier”. It is a comparison or classification based on the health condition of patients to ensure optimum care and quality provided in Emergency Department. Triage term originated…

Scott Anderson’s novel, Triage, portrays the different effects that war and death can have on people. Mark, Joaquin, and Elena endure different experiences with war and death and are affected in different ways. Mark’s traumas originate from his time as a war photographer. His ability to capture war’s most grueling moments grants him the opportunity to shoot in many war-torn areas such as Beirut, Sri Lanka, Kurdistan, and Uganda. Mark’s first experience of war is in Beirut. He describes the…

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…

provider such as a nurse practitioner or medical assistant posted in the triage sector of an emergency department can be effective in reducing wait times and lowering the percentage of people who leave the emergency department before receiving treatment. We will explore this topic, and discuss why we chose this article, the focus of the journal it came from, as well as the implications of having a treatment provider in triage as it relates to nursing practice, education, administration and…

The nurse should move to team triage as an intervention for this diagnosis. This assigns physicians, nurses, and technicians to help during the triage process. By doing this, the waiting times endured by patients are reduced. This allows for the outbreak to be assessed quicker, more efficiently, and has more patients being treated. Treating…

as well as discuss how my selected organization supports the project. I will also discuss areas for further research regarding the project topic any my proposed solution regarding the issue. This project hopes to improve the emergency department triage process for obtaining a 12-lead electrocardiogram on patients with symptoms suggestive of acute coronary syndrome. I choose the Quality and Safety for Nurses Institute (2014) competency, quality improvement to guide this project. The Quality…

Ethics are crucial a component of health care and triage. According to Sztajnkrycer, ethics can be defined as “the discipline of virtue and righteous action, an attempt to define moral principles and thereby resolve moral dilemmas.” In essence, ethics attempts to discern between matters of right and wrong. In practice, ethics requires the exercise of morals and values. Ethical actions are choices made based on moral principles developed from habit and define one’s character. The field of…

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problems. They then discuss the similarity of staffing that obstetric triage shares with emergency departments. Sharing of staff with the labor and delivery departments can cause wait times and increase the delay in assessment and or treatment. (Paul et al., pp 176, 2013) Fort Sanders handles their obstetric triage as a part of Labor and Delivery from the way it was explained to…