Can Emergency Nurses' Triage Skills Be Improved by Online Learning? Results of an Experiment

Journal of Emergency Nursing

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 20-26

  Rankin, James A ^a   Then, Karen L ^a   Atack, Lynda ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b CENTENNIAL COLLEGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

CTAS; Online learning; Triage skills

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY NURSING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STANDARD;

ADULT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, DISTANCE; EMERGENCY NURSING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TRIAGE;

EID: 84871990452     PISSN: 00991767     EISSN: 15272966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jen.2011.07.004     Document Type: Article

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