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Is it Triage? Or is it Bricolage?
Australian Emergency Departments all use the Australasian Triage Scale (ATS) to triage every patient presenting through its doors.
Triage can be defined as:
A process of assessment of a patient on arrival to the ED to determine the priority for medical care based on the clinical urgency of the patient’s presenting condition. Triage enables allocation of limited resources to obtain the maximum clinical utility for all patients presenting to the emergency department.’
The triage nurse applies an ATS category in response to the question: “This patient should wait for medical assessment and treatment no longer than….
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Source: impactEDnurse - February 22, 2013 Category: Nurses Authors: impactEDnurse Tags: reflective practice. Source Type: blogs
