Role and Competencies of Nurses in Triage Assessment for Patients in Emergencies
Keywords:
การคัดแยกผู้ป่วย, การพยาบาลฉุกเฉิน, บทบาทของพยาบาลอุบัติเหตุและฉุกเฉิน, สมรรถนะของพยาบาลอุบัติเหตุและฉุกเฉินAbstract
The effective and accurate emergency triage and appropriate care are essential factors to reduce the complications and death rates among the patients suffering medical emergencies. An accurate and rapid triage plays a significant role of emergency nurses to provide appropriate care in each emergency, and to distance increases every patient in a timely manner. This article aims to determine the roles and competencies of the emergency nurses. The roles of emergency nurses are as follows: code nurses; triage nurses; disaster nurses; critical care nurses, transport personnel nurses; pediatric and geriatric emergency nurse; hare nurses; and military nurses. In terms of the competencies of emergency nurses, they are as follows: Direct care skills; Consultancy skills; Leadership skills, Collaboration skills, Coaching skills; Research skills, and Ethics. The most important competency of an emergency nurse is the ability to perform a precise and fast triage for the emergency patients. The emergency nurses must be able to prioritize and categorize the patients’ conditions such as who needs priority treatment or who should wait. Therefore, this should improve the quality of the emergency care, decrease risks from complications and disabilities, and reduce death rates. In addition, this will increase patients’ and family’s satisfaction as well as reduce the cost of medical care.
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