The Emergency Department (ED) is where we can find a channel of activities surrounding patients who present with differing needs, urgency, and levels of care. Triage is a word defined as, “to sort, allocate treatment.” (Webster, 2016) With this in perspective, St. Joseph Regional Medical Center (SJRMC, 2014) Emergency Department was compelled to review their existing triage processes in an aim to address an issue in their turnaround times.
This article was published at the Journal of Emergency Nursing, September 2016. (Christensen, 2016)
The aim of this presentation was to form a substitute to customary triage and to decrease ED length of stay and time of treatment to disposition. According to their existing data, a 7.2% increase in patient volume from 130,700 to 140,800 in 2012 prompted SJRMC ED to review prevailing triage methods to …show more content…
The ED, has several areas of entry points. 1) lobby/waiting area, 2) Fire Rescue alerts and transport, 3) Air lifts and Air transfers. These entry points converge through the Triage process, not all patients who enter via the waiting lobby-WAIT, not all Fire Rescue Transfers are – EMERGENT, and most Air lifts are transfers either from a different neighboring country or a critical case in need of higher level of care. The ED is loaded with a myriad of patient presenting differing presentation of their illnesses. The integration of the pivot triage method ameliorates the utilization of significant resources. Patient throughput and navigation can be significantly improved. Recommendation for the use of this method and additional testing in other institutions of its use is highly conceivable. Training of staff and education are important for the method to be successful. Constant assessment is also imperative to guarantee that the method is
This article was published at the Journal of Emergency Nursing, September 2016. (Christensen, 2016)
The aim of this presentation was to form a substitute to customary triage and to decrease ED length of stay and time of treatment to disposition. According to their existing data, a 7.2% increase in patient volume from 130,700 to 140,800 in 2012 prompted SJRMC ED to review prevailing triage methods to …show more content…
The ED, has several areas of entry points. 1) lobby/waiting area, 2) Fire Rescue alerts and transport, 3) Air lifts and Air transfers. These entry points converge through the Triage process, not all patients who enter via the waiting lobby-WAIT, not all Fire Rescue Transfers are – EMERGENT, and most Air lifts are transfers either from a different neighboring country or a critical case in need of higher level of care. The ED is loaded with a myriad of patient presenting differing presentation of their illnesses. The integration of the pivot triage method ameliorates the utilization of significant resources. Patient throughput and navigation can be significantly improved. Recommendation for the use of this method and additional testing in other institutions of its use is highly conceivable. Training of staff and education are important for the method to be successful. Constant assessment is also imperative to guarantee that the method is