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Triage - The 'ETEK' way

Triage - The 'ETEK' way

$200.00 AUD
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CPD hours: 6.0

Emergency departments manage increasingly complex workloads, requiring triage nurses to conduct comprehensive initial assessments, recognise critical warning signs, prioritise patients, and allocate care. The triage role is multifaceted and involves significant clinical judgement, complexity, and time pressure. Given the wide range of conditions presenting to emergency departments, triage nurses must possess a high level of experience and clinical knowledge, continually striving to achieve the greatest good for the greatest number when demand exceeds available resources.

While triage is primarily a nursing role, an understanding of triage processes, decision-making frameworks, and prioritisation principles is required by all emergency clinicians to support effective collaboration between nursing, allied health and medical staff. By gaining insight into the assessment and allocation processes that occur at triage, all staff can understand patient flow, early risk identification, and the clinical reasoning that underpins prioritisation decisions, contributing to more efficient and coordinated patient care.

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Course Information

This course provides the learner an overview of the Emergency Triage Education Kit (ETEK), an Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care publication, endorsed by the following colleges:

- College of Emergency Nursing Australasia
- Australian College of Emergency Nursing
- Australasian College for Emergency Medicine

The aim of ETEK is to promote consistency with the prioritisation and allocation of care using the Australasian Triage Scale (ATS). The course is comprised of five modules that detail how to perform a systematic triage assessment, communication strategies and documentation requirements at the triage window. It focuses on specific population groups that require adjustments in critical thinking and knowledge to assess. The course provides scenarios from the ETEK workbook to consolidate the information and knowledge check questions with each module to assess understanding.

It requires an 100% pass mark to receive a certificate of completion. You will receive 3 attempts for each module. This certificate does not replace supervised practice and assessment in the clinical environment. It is designed to build or refresh theoretical knowledge of the triage role.

Course Content

Learners will cover the following content:
- The role and application of the triage process including documentation requirements.
- The goals of the triage assessment.
- Familiarization of the Australasian Triage scale (ATS).
- Scope of practice and communication strategies to conduct a thorough triage assessment.
- Pain assessment and management at triage. - Triage of specific population groups including mental health presentations, rural and remote settings, paediatrics, obstetrics and the elderly.
- Medicolegal considerations at Triage - Practice scenarios from the ETEK workbook

Who is this for?

Registered Nurses