Emergency nurse : the journal of the RCN Accident and Emergency Nursing Association

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• Emerg Nurse · Sep 1999

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  Principles of wound ballistics.

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• Emerg Nurse · Sep 1999

  Putting the nurse back into triageCherine Woolwich looks at the current trends in nurse triage and finds she has been asking similar questions to the ones posed by Edwards ( 1999 ) in 'What's wrong with triage?' which appeared in last month's issue of Emergency Nurse.

  I was one of those A&E nurses in the mid-eighties and early nineties who was committed to the concept of nurse triage as a means of providing better care for patients. I felt it was crucial for emergency nurses to recognise the importance of nurse triage and the part that they could play in its development. Estrada ( 1981 ) referred to 'non-professional triage' when patients were not seen and assessed by a nurse. She said of nurse triage that it was 'a professional judgment, made by a professional nurse'.

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