NURS 551 EXAM| 203 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
2025-2026 | GRADED A+
What are challenges in rural emergency care?
- Staffing levels
- Multiple roles of rural nurses
- Lower rate of contact with emergency conditions
- "Call back" nature of rural physicians, RNs, and Lab/x-ray technicians
- Recourses availability
- Transport to definitive care
What is triage?
- The process for sorting based on a patient's need for or likely benefit from
immediately medical interventions
- Essenitally, sorting people coming into the ER to know how badly do they
need immediate medical care
What are the 5 levels of the Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale?
1. Resusciation (Threat to life or limb)
2. Emergency (potential threat to life or limb and requiring rapid medical
intervention)
3. Urgent (could potentially progress to an emergent problem)
