Emergency triage / Manchester Triage Group ; edited by Kevin Mackway-Jones, Janet Marsden, Jill Windle.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mackway-Jones, Kevin.

Marsden, Janet.

Windle, Jill.

Manchester Triage Group.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Triage (Medicine)--Great Britain.

Triage (Medicine).

Hospitals--Emergency services--Great Britain.

Hospitals.

Emergency nursing--Great Britain.

Emergency nursing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (194 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Malden, Mass. ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Manchester Triage System (MTS) is the most widely used triage system in the UK, Europe and Australia, with tens of millions of patients being processed through hospital emergency departments. Emergency Triage is the core text for the MTS which utilises a risk averse system of prioritisation for patients in all unscheduled care settings, and as such it is an essential text for all emergency department staff using the MTS, in particular triage nurses themselves. The second edition has been revised throughout and takes in the changes in practice introduced into M

Contents:

Introduction

The decision-making process and triage

The triage method

Pain assessment as part of the triage process

Patient management, triage and the triage nurse

Auditing the triage process

Telephone triage

Beyond prioritisation.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-281-32100-1

9786611321000

0-470-75732-9

0-470-75728-0

OCLC:

437218410