I am currently scratching my head about the deterioration I am seeing in "triage" times. A couple of years ago everyone
wanted it reclassified as assessment as it was supposedly a more complex process than simply sorting, but I note that the
terminology has slipped back to triage. No matter. How do busier Units than mine cope with the workload through a
single assessment nurse? Somewhere seeing 100,000 patients a year will see an average 270 patients a day or so. If
everyone is to be seen within 15 minutes, each patient can only be seen for 5 minutes, and at peak times much less.
Bearing in mind linguistic difficulties and so on, how much assessment can be done in that time?
Best wishes,
Rowley Cottingham
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