title: Triage decision-making skills: a necessity for all nurses.
abstract: Triage decision making is an essential skill for nurses. Through initial assessment, a nurse must be able to prioritize patient care on the basis of appropriate decision making. The purpose of this article is to present pilot study data on the Triage Decision-Making Inventory, which measures the identification of critical thinking, cognitive characteristics, intuition, and experience when making triage decisions. Establishing reliability and validity of the instrument in a sample of nurses with diverse specialties allows staff development experts to use the inventory to tailor training for new graduates and practicing nurses.
authors.affiliation: Maternal Child Nursing, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, USA. anitasmith@usouthal.edu
authors.forename: Anita
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: Kelly J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Cone
mesh_terms: D000407:Alabama; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003479:Curriculum; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007087:Illinois; D008297:Male; D024802:Nurse's Role; D010865:Pilot Projects; D014218:Triage / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration; D014481:United States