CRANAplus Triage Emergency Care Course

Posted Thursday 04 July 2024 | CRANAplus

Designed specifically for nurses (including practice nurses) and general practitioners but open to a variety of health care professionals, the Triage Emergency Care Course is based on the Emergency Triage Education Kit (ETEK), with a focus on its application for rural, remote, and isolated settings. The course upskills the rural triage practitioner to confidently assess patients and apply the Australasian Triage Scale to allocate an appropriate triage category.

The CRANAplus Triage Emer­gency Care con­sists of three components:

• online pre-course learn­ing, case sce­nar­ios and quizzes
• online dis­cus­sion boards and activities
• atten­dance at a one day face-to-face work­shop con­sist­ing of lec­tures, small group work and prac­ti­cal based triage scenarios.

On successful completion of the course, clinicians will be able to:

• Demon­strate the prin­ci­ples of triage assess­ment tech­niques using a pri­ma­ry sur­vey approach.
• Demon­strate an under­stand­ing of the Aus­tralasian Triage Scale and its imple­men­ta­tion in the workplace.
• Devel­op an under­stand­ing of the medico-legal aspects of triage across adult, pae­di­atric, mater­ni­ty, the elder­ly and men­tal health presentations.
• Devel­op an under­stand­ing of the unique dif­fer­ences between urban and rur­al triage practices.