Triage

Through my practicum experience involving the triage system, instruction of clinical nursing, and creation, implementation, and evaluation of triage scenarios at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center Emergency department, I developed useful knowledge and gained valuable and practical skills that helped to build a strong foundation for myself as a nurse educator. The following discussion details my practicum experience with regards to what could be considered the highlights or most important

The competency-based approach to education, training and assessment has surfaced as a main policy in nursing. While the competency-based approach has the potential to fulfil the requirement for providing safe care to the patient, a speciality area focused nursing requires extra training and education to be able to practice in such area( ). Nurses have important roles to make sure that the care they are providing is safe and is of high quality. Likewise, emergency nurses plays an important role

I did have an amazing week, to learn about Australasian triage scale. Ministry of Health (MOH) and White cross follows the guidelines of Australasian triaging. Triaging is the assessment of patients on arrival and how urgent their illness/ injury is and how soon to be seen for treatment (MOH,2011). The aim is to triage and ensure patient with urgent needs are quickly seen compared to those with less urgent concerns. The Australasian Triage Scale as follows 1- Immediately life-threatening – seen

allocation of resources and also conduct activity based cost analysis. The simulation model is used for demonstrating a new operational method that makes the operations at the X-ray department more effective. The operational method is referred to as Triage team method. This method has been it is been studied from two view points. The results showed that the method enhances the X-ray department if properly implemented and it incorporates all the required tasks.  County hospital simulation project

ischemic chest pain is among the more common reasons that adults present to the emergency department, accounting for over 8 million visits every year in the United States (Hoffmann et al., 2012). Patients presenting with this symptom are screened with triage history, vital signs, physical exam, electrocardiogram (EKG), chest x-ray, coronary computerized tomography angiography (CTA), and

database of the Unit of Cancer Epidemiology at the Scientific Institute of Public Health (Brussels, Belgium) which contains more than 20,000 references on cervical cancer.More recent searches, up to December 2012, targeted reports on the accuracy of triage of ASCUS or LSIL with other HPV DNA assays, or HPV RNA assays and other molecular markers. These searches will be used for new Cochrane reviews as well as for updates of the current review. SELECTION CRITERIA: Studies eligible for inclusion in the

Introduced into Australian hospitals some time during the 1970’s, triage is defined in Merriam-Webster as “the assignment of degrees of urgency to wounds or illnesses to decide the order of treatment of a large number of patients or casualties” (Merriam-Webster Online, n.d.). Known today as the Australasian Triage Scale (ATS), five categories outlining descending levels of clinical urgency are used to facilitate prioritised yet equitable access to emergency health care services (Health Policies

and is initiated by the triage nurse when a patient presented to the ED with two or more signs of early sepsis. The triage nurse notifies the charge nurse and the covering provider when the sepsis protocol is initiated. The protocol allows for early sepsis intervention and enhanced interprofessional collaboration. This protocol could be easily adopted at SVMC since the triage nurse has access to the electronic health record (EHR) and the sepsis screening tool. The triage nurse also has access to

justice in the field of health care. One of these philosophies, utilitarianism, defines justice as policies and procedures that produce the best outcomes. During times of emergency, it is acceptable for health professionals to practice triage medicine. The practice of triage medicine represents the goal of avoiding the worst outcomes and not the utilitarian view of the best possible outcome. Furthermore, the aim of public health research is to collect information that may or may not be useful. The quest

On 12/7/2015 at approximately 1645 hours, my wife (Donna Webber) was being triage by the Bassett Army Hospital Emergency Room. The individual who was conducting the triage was Captain Augilar (the rank may be off). During the triage questioning, Augilar asked several questions which were incoherent by me wife. She was unsure of the question but attempted to answer what she believe question was. She answered the question with the information understood as given. Augilar became agitated, impatient