We are considering faxed patient reports to inpatient units. Anyone want to give advise on this, pro's, con's, what your policy is? Anyone have a form they are willing to share? Thanks in
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The patient will still be triaged by a RN prior to registration/physician, assigning a triage priority 1 - 5. It's just we are looking at letting the patient decide which triage area they will start....
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We are locked for space. The front has just been remodeled, with the 3 triage areas. We are currently looking at plans for our new ED, to hopefully be opened in 2008 with approx. 100 beds. This is...
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The idea that was given to me this morning was, as patients enter the ED, there will be a sign stating ( something like this): Patient who are here with coughs, colds, sprains, strains, earaches,...
We are considering Self Triage for patients for our Fast Track. Do any of you do this? Care to share any ideas on starting this? Really need some feedback please. Thank,
After 21 years in the ER, last 17 in a Level 1, I now work totally in our Fast Track section, which I refer to as "CandyLand". A typical day: Patient #1: I was opening my bottle of Tylox, and...
Was reading the postings. Seeing the original post was from NC, just a thought. Has your daughter looked at Duke? They have a Pathology Assistant program, that focuses on