A nurse practitioner (NP)-led quality improvement project implementing a triage nurse intervention reduced the mean wait time and total encounter time at a walk-in clinic, but patient satisfaction ...

An American Medical Response news release said the nurse line connects patients with appropriate care and ensures ambulances are available for critical emergencies.

A new machine learning model developed by Mount Sinai researchers could reduce overcrowding in emergency departments, improve staff efficiencies and boost patient outcomes by informing ED ...

Doctors and nurses perform better overall at emergency department triage than artificial intelligence (AI), which displayed lower "overall accuracy” in a series of hospital tests. According to ...

ESI program develops swift decision-making skills that lead to better patient outcomes, Emergency Nurses Association says. The Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) this week boosted the value of its ...

It’s 2 a.m. A mother calls into a nurse triage line. Her baby isn’t screaming. She’s not rattling off symptoms. She just keeps saying, “something’s wrong.” And the nurse on the other end of that phone ...

Eloise Bailey woke up in her Southeast Washington home on June 30 with pain in her neck. Panic swept over her as she feared she might have broken a bone, so she dialed 911. “I didn’t want to eat. I ...

When a workplace injury occurs, employers with no medical training often must determine the severity of the injury and direct an employee to appropriate medical care. They may have to make on-the-spot ...