Re: Time to Triage Originally Posted by LilgirlRN 
Really weird... I came to work today only to be told that the triage nurse will now triage all patients at the bedside. That is until we are full and then I will triage in the triage office. There will be a tech at registration to alert me to any true emergencies. However the tech that is doing this today expresses his concerns, what if he misses something? Can the patient then sue him? All questions that I don't have the answer to.
LilGirl - this is what my facility calls "immediate bedding"...except, the triage nurse doesn't triage at the bedside, the primary nurse receiving the patient does. Our triage tech takes the patient to the room. Hooks them up to the monitor/starts VS. If not needed back at triage, they may start an EKG or a line or something. If triage is busy, then it's right back out front. The nurse should remain at triage. We cannot immediate bed patients if the section in which the patient is to go to does not have an available provider/nurse to see the patient immediately. ie: nurse with a level 1 patient or nurse unavailable since they're in ICU transporting a patient.
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