Comments on “Triage Knowledge and Practice and Associated Factors Among Emergency Department Nurses”

Abstract

It is to be hoped that much more attention should be drawn toward properly constructing scenarios to ensure the accuracy of the decisions made by triage nurses, because there is a history of poorly-constructed scenarios in previous research, leading to biases in their results. Consequently, scenarios are expected to meet the main criteria for a triage, such as demographic characteristics, major complaints, vital signs and accompanying symptoms, and physical examinations, to simulate what nurses might encounter in triaging a real patient. Moreover, further studies are suggested to report mistriage, including undertriage and overtriage rates.

The correlation between nurses' knowledge of triage and the accuracy of triage level interpretation in the emergency department

“…11 This indicates that the longer the tenure, the higher the level of cognitive maturity an individual possesses, thereby leading to an increase in the acquired knowledge. [12][13][14] Based on this research, the majority of nurses in interpreting triage levels fall within the appropriate triage category, accounting for 68.3 %. The results of this research also indicate that there are still nurses with triage level application falling within the under triage and over triage categories, amounting to 31.7 %.…”

Toxic Leadership in Emergency Nurses: Assessing Abusive Supervision and Its Team-Level Impacts on Conflict Management and Organizational Commitment

“…Toxic leadership in emergency nursing is characterized by a spectrum of harmful behaviors [12,13], including but not limited to abusive supervision, rigid top-down control [14], exploitation, self-serving actions, and emotional manipulation [15][16][17]. Tese behaviors collectively contribute to an environment where nursing staf can experience decreased well-being, reduced morale [18,19], and a general sense of job dissatisfaction [20][21][22][23].…”