Nursing standard (Royal College of Nursing (Great Britain) : 1987)
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The re-siting of the Tameside General Hospital accident and emergency department in a new, custom-built facility acted as the impetus for the formal introduction of the triage system of care. Ron Gray outlines the process of introduction and stresses that while problems have been encountered, the indications are that the system has worked to the benefit of patients and nurses.
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The issue of pain assessment has attracted great interest in recent years, but there are as yet precious few studies which concentrate on paediatric nurses' assessment skills. Sue Price describes a study of how first-level (general) student nurses assessed children's pain. Despite a small sample size, she found wide variation in understanding of the intensity of pain being suffered by children. She recommends the inclusion of a session on the assessment and management of pain in the paediatric module of general nursing syllabuses.