Emergency nursing 5-tier triage protocols

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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Triage > Handbooks > methods
Emergencies > Handbooks > nursing
Emergency Service, Hospital. > Handbooks
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Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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