Emergency Nursing Triage Manual: Acuity Recognition, Rapid Assessment, and Safe Disposition

By Marilyn C Batts

Emergency departments demand fast judgment, disciplined reassessment, and clear communication. Emergency Nursing Triage Manual gives nurses a practical bedside framework for recognizing acuity, identifying immediate threats, prioritizing care, and supporting safe disposition across a wide range of emergency presentations. Designed for emergency nurses, triage nurses, urgent-care clinicians, nursing students, and professionals preparing for high-acuity practice, this manual moves from first impression to focused assessment, escalation, reassessment, handoff, and quality improvement. It emphasizes what must be recognized now, what can safely wait, what requires immediate intervention, and what must be documented to protect continuity of care. Inside, readers will find comprehensive guidance on rapid primary assessment; five-level acuity assignment; vital-sign interpretation; cardiovascular, respiratory, neurologic, abdominal, obstetric, infectious, behavioral-health, pediatric, geriatric, trauma, toxicologic, and disaster presentations; as well as reassessment, disposition, handoff, documentation, and quality improvement. Each chapter combines clinical priorities, red-flag findings, documentation points, case-based reasoning, competency checklists, key terminology, chapter summaries, and review questions with answers and rationales. The back matter adds rapid-reference tools, escalation matrices, reassessment guides, documentation templates, consolidated competency checklists, a glossary, and an index for fast retrieval. The manual is built around a simple clinical reality: triage is not a single decision made at arrival. It is a continuous process of recognition, prioritization, surveillance, communication, and revision. Subtle deterioration, atypical presentation, incomplete histories, crowding, and delayed treatment can all change risk. This book helps nurses respond to those changes with greater consistency and confidence. Emergency Nursing Triage Manual is a practical reference for the nurse who must decide what matters first, what cannot be missed, and how to move the patient safely toward the next level of care.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HDV9TRZT
• ISBN13: 9798192134962
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 381 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.9" x 8.5"