Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Nursing and Rehabilitation, Faculty Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Malaysia. Electronic address: khalafawad1983@gmail.com
  • 2 Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Faculty Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia. Electronic address: shah86zam@upm.edu.my
  • 3 Department of Nursing and Rehabilitation, Faculty Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia. Electronic address: leekhuan@upm.edu.my
  • 4 Department of Community Health, Faculty Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia. Electronic address: pohying_my@upm.edu.my
  • 5 Accident and Emergency Unit, Palestinian Ministry of Health, Palestine, Jenin Street, Jenin, Palestine. Electronic address: brawajbeh@yahoo.com
Int Emerg Nurs, 2021 05;56:100994.
PMID: 33798982 DOI: 10.1016/j.ienj.2021.100994

Abstract

BACKGROUND: In the trauma triage procedure, nurses with good knowledge and skills can start initial treatment immediately pending doctors availability, and before a final diagnosis is made. The Advanced Trauma Life Support/ Advanced Trauma Care for Nurses is one of the most important trauma education programmes to enhance the knowledge and skills of emergency nurses. This systematic review of the literature attempts to investigate the implications of introducing an Advanced Trauma Life Support/Advanced Trauma Care for Nurses' knowledge and skills related to trauma triage.

METHODS: A systematic review was carried out using Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA). The included sites and databases are Web of Science, Scopus, PubMed, ScienceDirect, Cochrane Library, and Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) from 1994 to 2019. The quality of the selected studies was evaluated using a standard quality rating tool (SQRT). The quality of the criteria for inclusion and exclusion was independently reviewed by three researchers.

RESULTS: This study evaluated 5266 records in the identification stage. In the included stage, only four studies were included in this review. In the standard quality assessment, none of the included studies were evaluated as being a strong study, none used an experimental design at three points in time (pre, post and follow-up), and all showed a moderate to high risk of bias. There is a lack of knowledge and skills related to trauma triage among emergency nurses in the included studies.

CONCLUSION: A lack of knowledge and skills concerning trauma triage among emergency nurses could potentially have an adverse effect on the outcomes of the patients in trauma cases.

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