Effects of online lesson on knowledge and triage quality among nurse in the emergency department.
Keywords:
Triage of elderly patients, Knowledge, Quality of triage, Nurse, Emergency departmentAbstract
Background
Since elderly people tend to receive an inaccurate triage. The promotion of nurses' knowledge in understanding the aging process, characteristics of elderly people, geriatric syndromes, and triaging skills for the elderly patients may help increase the triage accuracy and reduce the adverse effects consequently.
Objectives
To compare the knowledge and accuracy of triage for the elderly patients among nurses in the emergency department at baseline, the 4-week and the 8-week follow-up. Method: The one-group repeated-measures design was studied with 21 accident and emergency nurses of Roi-et Hospital between July to November, 2023. The research instruments were an online learning lesson and manual. Data were collected through the questionnaire, the knowledge measurement form, and the quality assessment form for triage of elderly patients. The continuous data were analysed using descriptive statistics. Repeated measure ANOVA was to analyse the average score of knowledge.
Results
1) The average knowledge scores of the accident and emergency nurses increased significantly from the baseline, after the 4-week and the 8-week follow up (F=1317.57, df = 1, p<.001). 2) The comparison of the accuracy of triage for the elderly patients between the baseline and the 8-week follow-up showed differences. The accuracy of elderly patients' triage triage has also increased from 71.9 96 to 80.0 %.
Conclusion
This online learning lesson can increase emergency nurses' knowledge and increasing the triage quality of elderly patients to be more accurate. This online learning lesson could be a quideline for further developing knowledge and skills for accident and emergency nurses.
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