The purpose of this study was to investigate registered nurses experiences about the current model for triage at the emergency department at Uppsala University Hospital. The study is descriptive with qualitative approach. The data collection was made in the form of semi structured interviews. The interviews took place at the emergency department. The sample consisted of eight registered nurses with varying work experience of emergency care. The interviews were transcribed and analyzed. The content analysis resulted in 14 categories and four themes. The main result contains both positive and negative experiences concerning registered nurses situation when working with team triage. Team triage has improved the work in many aspects: it runs more smoothly and inspires to a good working climate. At the same time the informants experienced the lack of guidelines on how team triage should be conducted. Working in team has improved the cooperation with the physicians. An important factor to this is good communication. However, numerous of the informants felt that they were of no use when working in team. It was also a lack of interest from the physicians of working in team with registered nurses. Further research is required on this topic to develop and improve the way to work with team triage.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-112506 |
| Date | January 2010 |
| Creators | Hjelm, Sara, Trepp, Kristina |
| Publisher | Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för folkhälso- och vårdvetenskap, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för folkhälso- och vårdvetenskap |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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