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Triage Emergency Care - Intensive

The CRANAplus Triage Emergency Care course is based on the Emergency Triage Education Kit (ETEK) with a focus on application for rural, remote and isolated settings. Designed for nurses (including practice nurses) and GPs but open to a variety of health care professionals, the course upskills the rural triage practitioner to confidently assess patients and apply the Australasian Triage Scale to allocate an appropriate triage category.

About this course
  • Are you required to effec­tive­ly and effi­cient­ly assess and triage emer­gency patients and pri­ma­ry pre­sen­ta­tions in your work?
  • Do you need to enhance your triage skills?
  • Are you famil­iar with the Aus­tralasian Triage Scale and Emer­gency Triage Edu­ca­tion Kit?

TEC Inten­sive deliv­ers the same con­tent from our tra­di­tion­al face-to-face course but allows you to engage from the com­fort of home or work, immerse your­self in the con­tent, and engage with oth­er prac­ti­tion­ers via our online dis­cus­sion boards.

Who is this course for?

The course is designed to meet the learn­ing needs of the remote and rur­al health work­force, espe­cial­ly nurs­es and rur­al gen­er­al prac­ti­tion­ers who may be required to per­form triage.

If you have any queries about the course or its rel­e­vance to your prac­tice, sub­mit an enquiry here.

Course deliv­ery

The Zoom work­shop for the Triage Emer­gency Care Inten­sive online course is designed to be com­plet­ed in one day. The course deliv­ers the same con­tent as our tra­di­tion­al cours­es using a com­bi­na­tion of:

  • Five self-direct­ed online learn­ing mod­ules includ­ing case sce­nar­ios, quizzes and activities
  • Online dis­cus­sion boards
  • 1 full-day online Zoom inten­sive workshop

Please note that the above com­po­nents of the course must be com­plet­ed to receive the TEC cer­tifi­cate, includ­ing 100% atten­dance at the one-day live online Zoom work­shop. Work­shop times are shown in Aus­tralian East­ern Stan­dard Time and will need to be con­vert­ed to local time by inter­state attendees.

On suc­cess­ful com­ple­tion of this course, clin­i­cians will be able to:
  • Demon­strate an under­stand­ing of the Aus­tralasian Triage Scale and its imple­men­ta­tion in the workplace.
  • Demon­strate the prin­ci­ples of triage assess­ment tech­niques using a pri­ma­ry sur­vey approach. 
  • Give con­sid­er­a­tion to safe­ty, com­mu­ni­ca­tion and bias when under­tak­ing triage.
  • Devel­op an under­stand­ing of the medico-legal aspects of triage.
  • Devel­op an under­stand­ing of the unique dif­fer­ences between urban and rur­al triage practices.

Please note: this course does not assess for triage com­pe­ten­cy. Com­pe­ten­cy assess­ment is deter­mined by your indi­vid­ual workplace/​organisational requirements.

On suc­cess­ful com­ple­tion par­tic­i­pants will be awarded:
  • A CRANAplus Triage Emer­gency Care Course cer­tifi­cate (Valid for 2 years)
Finan­cial sup­port to attend

CRANAplus Mem­bers receive a dis­count on face-to-face course reg­is­tra­tion and are eli­gi­ble to apply for var­i­ous CRANAplus pro­fes­sion­al devel­op­ment grants to meet the costs asso­ci­at­ed with course atten­dance. You can also find a list of grants and schol­ar­ships offered by exter­nal providers, such as the Health Work­force Schol­ar­ship Pro­gram, on our Path­way Incen­tives page.

Addi­tion­al FAQs

View the answers to oth­er fre­quent­ly asked ques­tions about CRANAplus courses.