This thesis has several aims. The first was to identify how practicing emergency nurses developed themselves personally in educationally in preparation for triage practice. The second was to develop a triage educational program to prepare emergency nurses in triage practice. The third was to evaluate the effectiveness of the triage educational program in increasing participant’s triage knowledge, and the fourth was to develop triage standards for triage education and practice. The research programme was conducted in three stages. The first stage consisted of the development, distribution, analysis and evaluation of a needs analysis questionnaire designed to determine the issues related to a triage education. The second stage of the research applied the needs analysis findings to the development of a 40 hour Triage Educational Program. Stage three added a qualitative dimension to the thesis. The evaluative results supported the quantitative results obtained in the two preceding studies. The Triage Educational Program was not only an effective triage education resource but in addition it was evaluated as effective regardless of one’s previous experience level of triage expertise. / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/235430 |
| Date | January 2006 |
| Creators | McNally, Stephen, University of Western Sydney, College of Arts, School of Social Sciences |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
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