Triage should be performed by the most educated and experienced people at the practice rather than the least experienced. Set conditions for telephone advice, including: a.

Crowded emergency rooms and workplace violence are big obstacles that get in the way of providing safe and efficient care delivery, says this nurse leader.

As a nurse doing telephone triage from home, you will take calls from patients, assess their various symptoms, and then help to point them in the right direction regarding medical care.

Objective To compare the workloads of general practitioners and nurses and costs of patient care for nurse telephone triage and standard management of requests for same day appointments in routine ...

Telephone triage has emerged as a pivotal component in modern primary care services, streamlining patient management and improving the allocation of healthcare resources.

Conclusion: Telephone triage by nurses may be effective at managing patient access to GPs but the need to categorise patients according to biomedical and managerial criteria needs to be balanced ...

The nurse on the other end of the call could also tell them to head to the emergency room if necessary. “It’s telephone triage,” Vera said.

It compares GP-led telephone triage, nurse–led computer supported (my italics) triage with usual care. What emerges seems to be that GP triage was associated with a 33% increase in the mean number of ...

Concerns over out-of-practice nurses staffing NHS 24 have been raised by Scottish doctors. Dr Georgina Brown, who worked alongside nurses at the Scottish Flu Response Centre, told the British Medical ...

Guidelines for Telephone Triage Carolyn Buppert, JD, CRNP Disclosures Dermatology Nursing. 2009;21 (1):40-41. Accommodating Patients ...