What Are Nurse Triage Protocols?
Schmitt-Thompson nurse triage protocols ensure that nurses follow a standardized process when evaluating patients over the phone and recommend the best advice given the symptoms presented by the caller.
Schmitt-Thompson nurse triage protocols ensure that nurses follow a standardized process when evaluating patients over the phone and recommend the best advice given the symptoms presented by the caller.
Telephone triage requires nurses to make care advice decisions based on patient symptoms. Standardized daytime protocols for patient phone calls is vital to your patient’s health and it will vastly improve your value-based care.
Personal health apps, sensors, and medical devices are becoming essential to engage patients and help them make healthy decisions. For providers, it means better ability to manage chronic health conditions and provide value based care.
As our CEO mentioned in her introduction, new technologies are transforming how clinicians deliver health care. At the same time, digital solutions alone are not enough to help patients. Incorporating…
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Telephone triage nurses are well positioned to help reduce the occurrence and consequences of prescription opioid. They assess patient symptoms, identify who may be at the risk, and send notes to doctors for follow up.
New protocols have been released by Dr. Bart Schmitt and Dr. David Thompson for telephone triage nurses specifically for patients that have been diagnosed or have suspected measles or have been exposed to measles. The two new protocols cover scenarios where patients have been diagnosed or have suspected measles or have been exposed to measles. The guidelines provide telephone triage nurses with a consistent and methodological approach to callers who have questions.
Founder and CEO TriageLogic and Continuwell, Dr. Charu Raheja, was recently named one of the Top 35 Women Igniting Success in Jacksonville by the Buzz Media Group. The award honors women executives, entrepreneurs, employees, and the companies they run. The award was presented by Snowden McFall, President of Fired Up and Dawn Gilam from Changing Homelessness.
Patients today have more options than ever to receive care outside of their primary care – if they even have one. Having more options may seem like a good thing, however many times the consumer is confused about the best care to address their symptoms. In the process, they end up either over-utilizing services or underestimating serious medical symptoms, creating both a drain to the healthcare system as well as possible threat to their lives.