Whats a TRIAGE NURSE?

Answer 1

TRIAGE happens long before the word nurse comes into the picture. EMT and paramedics make the call out on the street when someone comes in by ambulance and they totally bypass the triage nurse. Now when you are a medic you must triage or sort patients into categories or be overwhelmed with wounded. The four categories are walking wounded, that means they will be okay if they wait a bit priority means tthey will probably die if not treated immediately and expectant which means that unless heroics are performed then that patient is going to die, on the battlefield these patients usually die in hospitals these atients go to the top of the list especially at teaching hospitals, this is where the EMT/paramedics come in The las group is dead on arrival or DOA and there is nothing that can be done for these people although some docs might try heroics.. So you see a lot goes on in an emergency room that is not even related to the triage nurse. She/He is totally helpless if there is a lot of trauma going on behind those closed doors. So if the wait is long please don't hate the triage nurse because their only doing their job and have no control over the craziness in the ER. I've worked trauma shifts and sometimes you can only take about six hours before exhaustion overcomes you.. I am a former combat medic and a respiratory therapist so I've seen both sides of things. If you have something non life threatening make sure you go to a hospital thats not a trauma center a teaching hospital or prepare for a wait

Answer 2

"Triage" is a french word which means "to sort". Typically the triage nurse is the first nurse you will come in contact with, she will take your vital signs and document your complaint. Then she determines the severity of your emergency. There are certain things which determine when you get seen in the ED, these typically follow a protocol set up by the hospital. Following the ABC's (Airway, Breathing, Circulation), determines the amount of time you are in the ED waiting room. Her main job is simply "to sort" out the many folks visiting the ED on a daily basis & to let the charge nurse in the ED know which folks must be seen urgently vrs someone who can wait for several hours before being seen.

Answer 3

Triage is the french for sort or sorting and a triage nurse examines sick or injured people and decides how urgent they require treatment. Not very important in an A & E situtation unless someone is actually dying when they come in but if it is an emergency situation such as a rail crash then the process is vital in order to make sure the most critical patients are seen first

Answer 4

She is a nurse working in Accident and Emergency where the process of triage takes place, this is the checking of the patient to see how urgently treatment is required in the event of multiple casualties, the TRI in triage stands for the three elements that put you more at most at risk, problem with BREATHING then BLEEDING then BROKEN so for example someone who had difficulty breathing would be given priority over someone with a broken bone

Answer 5

The triage nurse at my hospital is the first person you see when you enter through the ER. She is somewhat of an ER secretary who also takes vitals and basic information, but the more important things is prioritizing care. You have to decide who needs to be seen first. We have 90 minutes to get certain heart attack patients to the cath lab. If you waste 30 minutes of that in the waiting room before you even know why someone is there, that's a lot of valuable time. The part that takes practice is knowing when a pt says they have belly pain if it means labor, indigestion, bowel problems, some bad food, a bad appendix... People are often not good at describing what is wrong with them and you have to figure it out.

Answer 6

Triage is the process where you decide which casualties to treat first. There are those who can wait, those who need immediate treatment and those where it's too late.

A triage nurse is usually the person in the A&E department who decides who gets seen and who waits for hours.

Answer 7

A triage nurse usually works in the hub of the accident and emergency department of a hospital. They assess each person refered to them and determine who is in need of treatment first or sometimes separate patients in different waiting areas according to the seriousness or potential seriousness of their complaint.

Answer 8

Triage is a system used by medical or emergency personnel to ration limited medical resources when the number of injured needing care exceeds the resources available to perform care so as to treat those patients in most need of treatment who are able to benefit first.

Answer 9

they are the first nurse you see in the er they decide how urgently you need to see the doctor. tell them precisly what is going on, but tell them the improtant things. These are the people who say that the person having a heartattack is seen befor the person w/ the ear infection. If you feel you are getting worse they can reevaluate you to determine if you can cont to wait or if you have become bad enough to be seen now. They cannot though,make things go any faster in the back. So cussing them out, calling them names, yelling @ them thatyou have beent here for 4 hrs for an ear infection is not going to get you seen any faster. They also can'ttell you when you will be seen b/c they can't controle what accidents or dieing people will come through the ambulance doors. so don't ask every 5 minute when you will be seen.

Answer 10

A nurse who evaluates people who walk into an emergency room to see which one is most urgent and who needs to see the doctor first.