Nurses' experiences and decision making at triage when women with miscarriage present to the Emergency Department

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Nurses' experiences and decision making at triage when women with miscarriage present to the Emergency Department

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The emergency department (ED) is a fast paced, chaotic environment with patients presenting sometimes simultaneously, requiring assessment and treatment. The role of the triage nurse in New Zealand is to made quick decisions using a triage scale, currently the Australasian Triage Scale (ATS), to determine urgency at which the patient should be assessed by a doctor and commence treatment. Miscarriage is a common early pregnancy complication, whereby the loss or potential loss of the pregnancy ...

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Research paper

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Thesis

Thesis level

Masters

Date created

2017

Creator

Harrison, Stacy

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https://hdl.handle.net/10652/6337

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New Zealand / triage nurses / emergency departments (EDs) / miscarriage / assessment / decision making / influences / interviews / Health sciences / Nursing / Acute care

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