BIBLIOGRAPHY MAJOR OBJECTIVE/ THEMES/ METHODS MAJOR FINDINGS

RESEARCH VARIABLES
QUESTIONS
Andersson,A., To describe how nurses Nurses skills Research design: Length of experience
Omberg,M., & Svedlund, implement triage when Personal capacity descriptive design and training varied
M. (2008). Triage in the patients arrive at the High workload Locale: Emergency among the nurses in this
Emergency department- emergency department Practical Hospital at Sweden study. No differences
a qualitative study of the of a county hospital, arrangement Participant/Subjects: were shown in their
factors which nurses situated in a rural area emergency nurses who assessment, but
consider when making of Sweden, as well as to had more than 6 months experienced nurses
decisions. Nursing in highlight the factors experience in triage viewed themselves as
Critical care, 11(3), 136- considered when Data Gathering having more courage
145. Doi: prioritizing, in Instrument: through and faith in themselves.
10.1111/j.1362- connection with nurses’ observation However, the result also
1017.206.00162x decision-making. Data Analysis Used: shows that triage is not
Qualitative Content always frictionless.
Analysis Insecurity arises when
nurses have to take care
of patients they have not
prioritized and also
when a lot of external
disturbance is involved.
None of the nurses in
the present study
mentioned intuition, by
name, in their
prioritizing, but ‘sixth
sense’ was mentioned,
probably because
intuition is an instinctive
method of thinking,
acting and using
common sense.