International emergency nursing
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During emergency department (ED) crowding there is an imbalance between the need for emergency care and available resources. We assessed the impact of crowding on the triage process. ⋯ At this hospital, crowding affects the triage process, leading to longer waiting times to triage and longer ED LOS. Crowding did not influence triage destination.
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We explored the time employed by nurses to perform the ED triage process in the clinical setting. Moreover, we assessed the influences on triage timing performance exerted by variables related to nurses, local EDs' features, and by interruptions. ⋯ We found that the nurses triage time performances are similar to other triage systems in the world.
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The aim in this study was to investigate the impact of overcrowding on the Australasian Triage Score's (ATS) time to treatment target and the National Emergency Access Target (NEAT) for patients who self-present to the Emergency Department (ED) with abdominal pain. ⋯ Queuing in the waiting room for an ED bed was a significant predictor of whether or not category three patients with abdominal pain had treatment commenced within 30min of presentation and was associated with a longer total ED length of stay.
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The aim of this study was to assess whether the use of alcohol and medicinal drugs among rescue workers as a consequence of the 22 July terrorist attack was associated with post-traumatic stress symptoms, and explore if there were differences between affiliated and unaffiliated rescue workers. ⋯ The study found a low level of post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) and alcohol and medicinal drug use among the rescue workers after the terror attacks in Norway on 22 July 2011. There was a strong association between both medicinal drug and alcohol use and elevated PTSS.