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Triage is a key aspect of emergency department (ED) work and consists of, the first stage of assessment required to prioritize patients based on the severity of their conditions in order to determine the order in which they receive treatment (Stanfield, 2015;Wolf et al., 2018). Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, such situations could have significant impacts on the ED environment, especially on nursing workforces. It is thus essential to understand ED nurses' triage experiences in pandemic situations, given that the triage procedure used to screen patients plays a crucial role in identifying high-risk populations .The initial assessment of a patient's clinical symptoms is the cornerstone of triage in the ED. In a pandemic situation, the screening process and triage process undergo several changes, both in terms of the arrangement of the place and the flow of patient services, with the screening process being focused on protecting against as many potential sources of infection as possible . A widely adopted triage protocol that was developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of the United States explains that triage criteria

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