Emergency nursing 5-tier triage protocols

This quick-reference handbook presents complaint-based triage protocols for assessing patients face to face in emergency and urgent care settings and assigning acuity levels within the 5-tier triage acuity system. The 5-tier triage acuity system is endorsed by the Emergency Nurses Association and th...

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Main Authors: Briggs, Julie K. (Author), Grossman, Valerie G. A. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2006
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505 0 # |a Abdominal pain, adult -- Abdominal pain, child -- Alcohol and drug use, abuse, and dependence -- Allergic reaction -- Altered mental status -- Ankle pain and swelling -- Anxiety -- Asthma -- Back pain -- Bee sting -- Bites, animal and human -- Bites, insect and tick -- Bites, marine animal -- Bites, snake -- Body art complications -- Breast problems -- Breathing problems -- Burns -- Chest pain -- Cold exposure, hypothermia/frostbite -- Cold symptoms -- Confusion -- Contusion -- Cough -- Crying baby -- Depression -- Diabetic problems -- Diarrhea, adult -- Diarrhea, pediatric -- Ear problems -- Electric shock/lightning injury -- Extremity injury -- 
505 0 # |a Eye injury and problems -- Feeding tube problems -- Fever -- Finger and toe problems -- Foreign body, ear -- Foreign body, ingested -- Foreign body, inhaled -- Foreign body, rectum or vagina -- Foreign body, skin -- Genital problems, male -- Headache -- Head injury -- Heart rate, rapid -- Heart rate, slow -- Heat exposure -- Hip pain and swelling -- Hives -- Hypertension -- Itching without a rash -- Jaundice -- Jaundice, newborn -- Knee pain and swelling -- Laceration -- Lightheadedness/fainting -- Menstrual problems -- Motor vehicle accident -- Mouth problems -- Neck pain -- Nosebleed -- Poisoning, exposure or ingestion -- 
505 0 # |a Pregnancy, abdominal pain -- Pregnancy, back pain -- Pregnancy, vaginal bleeding -- Pregnancy, vaginal discharge -- Pregnancy, vomiting -- Puncture wound -- Rash, adult and pediatric -- Rectal problems -- Seizure -- Seizure, pediatric febrile -- Sexual assault -- Shoulder pain -- Sinus pain and congestion -- Sore throat -- Suicidal behavior -- Sunburn -- Toothache/tooth injury -- Urinary catheter problems -- Urination problems -- Vaginal bleeding, abnormal -- Vomiting -- Weakness -- Wound infection -- Wrist pain and swelling. 
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