Day 2A · Triage & Prioritisation

Triage self-assessment

Eight critical questions — the decisions that keep a patient from waiting when they cannot. Each answer comes with the reason.

8 questionsabout 4 minutesnothing is saved or sent

During the session

The official pre-test and post-test

These two forms are how the programme measures whether the session worked. Use the same name or code on both. Nothing is used to appraise anyone.

Pre-testbefore the session Post-testafter the session

Practise

Take-home

Six things to leave with

  1. Triage is urgency — not diagnosis, not arrival order.
  2. ONSET questions, in order: A → B → C → D.
  3. Category 1: stop and treat. Category 2: move, and name a clinician now.
  4. Count the respiratory rate — never estimate it.
  5. Re-triage whenever the story changes.
  6. NEWS2 supports judgement. It never assigns the category.