Emergency Department Triage Triage is an essential element of providing care to patients who present at a hospital emergency department. Triage is defined as a brief clinical assessment that determines the time and sequence in which patients should be seen in the emergency department. During triage‚ an emergency department nurse interviews a patient or the patient’s representative about the medical problem causing concern‚ makes a brief evaluation of the patient‚ and takes the patient’s vital signs
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Triage and Emergency Department Experience Triage and the emergency department is not always as the movies picture it. However‚there are also other times that triage and the emergency department become a wild place for all kinds of people at varies degrees of danger. Many people cannot distinguish between a life-threatening situation and a situation that does not require emergency intervention while in an anxiety mode. Therefore‚ those people become angry and frustrated with the waiting and are
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Accomplishment/progress report sheet 2013 (Triage) Program /project Activities Targets Performance Indicator Problems Encountered Period Coverage Output/Remarks I.Staff Development 1. Discuss possible proposal and resolve problems 2. Meet a more than 83% average rating 3. Enhancement of knowledge Attended meeting every third Thursday of the scheduled meeting Schedule Examination before 12 months of service Reported procedures and cases related to the practice of nursing
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University Health Services: Walk-in Clinic 1. Process Flow PRE TRIAGE FLOW CHART [pic] TRIAGE FLOW CHART [pic] | |Pre-Triage |Triage | | |NP |MD |SP/MD |SP/NP |NP |MD |SP/MD | |8am-9am |18.2 |12.2 |2 |6.1
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Before the MCI drill MCI is a practice that was arranged this year under close monitoring from Dubai Women’s College in coordination with Dubai Police rescue‚ college administration‚ faculty staff and Students from DWC they participated by being patients . The event successfully conducted and achieved learning objectives for all students who were involved in effectively. The following is going to explain the whole operations‚ finding and lessons learned out of the practice. In MCI practice I learned
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A screening checklist for early signs of potential escalation was developed and initially plan to be used for all ED patients as a means to communicate potential risk to other employees. Triage nurses should ask about the presence of weapons as part of the triage assessment. Triage nurses also communicated to other staffs by flagging patients with a history of violence or exhibiting signs of potential violence in computer-based charting or word of mouth. Patients and visitors may be
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The switch to the triage system has succeeded in decreasing the overall wait time‚ however there is room for improvement. I recommend concentrating efforts to improve services in three critical areas (please refer to attached flow chart): 1. The Moment of Truth (MOT) when patients first arrive at the clinic. This is critical because the first moments when patients arrive are the most important for making their visit feel reasonable. Patients now wait 19 minutes to see a triage nurse. It is possible
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On April 15th 2013 the unexpected happened near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Two improvised explosive devices (IEDs) where detonated‚ at the feet of the spectators while they were cheering on the runners‚ in an interval of just seconds and a distance of approximately 200 feet. Three victims were pronounced dead on scene and there were close to three-hundred injured. Luckily the Boston marathon was highly equipped and prepared for the worst and had a lot of first responders and medical
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resources are limited. The facts that our ED contains 27 patient rooms and was presented with a patient visit record of about 150 patients seen on day shift‚ created quite a few problems. Several ideas for change took place; including modifying the triage process and utilizing a separate room just outside the department for patients to move to while awaiting test procedures. It was understood by everyone on staff that a change to be made‚ but the several ideas presented resulted in a myriad of opinions
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which ones to see/call back first.) When given the choice between a patient with COPD who is short of breath‚ a terminally ill pt who refuses to eat or drink‚ or a pt with congestive heart failure who has gained 3 lbs‚ choose the last one. Asthma triage Battering-communication If the question pertains to a nurse suspecting a female patient has been abused and the woman has her child in the room with her‚ the nurse should ask the child
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