Waiting Room Assesments

[ikimiwi]

do to our increasing waiting to be seen times, we need to reassess the people in th WR q1 hour after triage. Anyone have a policy on this? Who is responsible for this, and how do you do it? Just go from pt to pt and take vitals and talk to them , or do you have a specific area to call thm to? I work 3-1130, and most of the time triage is backed up. We cant triage pts in a timley manor, never mind trying to recheck pts we have already seeen.

Thanks

[Larry77, RN]

q1hr?....yikes...we reassess q2hr but often times is just the EDT rechecking vitals.

[Jennifer, RN]

We revital q3hrs in the waiting room. Very difficult to do if there is only 1 nurse in triage with no assigned tech and 20 pts waiting to be triaged. We have great greeters though who will let us know if there is a change in a pt's status. We would drown without them.