Triage Principles and Disaster Response · NCLEX Exam

One of the key principles of triage in disasters is that it should be:

  1. Slow, thorough, and individually exhaustive
  2. Completely identical to routine emergency-department triage
  3. Quick and accurate, prioritizing under resource constraints
  4. Concentrated on fully treating one patient at a time
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Correct answer: Quick and accurate, prioritizing under resource constraints

Disaster triage emphasizes speed and accuracy in classification under limited resources: classification and prioritization of injured, speed and accuracy are key principles.

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