Triage is the process of categorising and prioritising patients based on their severity of condition. Nurses should be confident in their abilities to triage patients efficiently and categorise...
A wound is defined as an injury where there is a forcible break in the soft tissues, including open wounds and closed wounds where there is damage below the surface (Ousten, 2011)..
For any patient presenting with trauma, the initial physical examination or primary survey and assessment needs to be undertaken with a rapid and systematic approach, which will at times require...
There is a growing body of evidence in human medicine regarding pain management in critically ill people, and this supports the notion that effective pain management in humans decreases morbidity and...