Educational Simulation Program Based on Korean Triage and Acuity Scale

Jae-Hyuk Jang, Sang Suk Kim and Sunghee Kim
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Jae-Hyuk Jang: Rapid Response Team, National Health Insurance Service Ilsan Hospital, Goyang 10444, Korea
Sang Suk Kim: Red Cross College of Nursing, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 06974, Korea
Sunghee Kim: Red Cross College of Nursing, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 06974, Korea

IJERPH, 2020, vol. 17, issue 23, 1-11

Abstract: This study aimed to develop and implement an educational simulation program based on the Korean Triage and Acuity Scale (KTAS) for nurses in emergency medical centers who completed the KTAS training, and assess its effects. We examined the educational effects of the program by evaluating clinical decision-making ability, job satisfaction, and customer orientation among the participants, namely 27 nurses in the emergency center of a general hospital. Data were collected from 3 to 24 May 2017, and analyzed using SPSS 22.0. There was a significant difference in nurses’ mean scores on clinical decision-making ability, job satisfaction, and customer orientation before and after the simulation-based education. In other words, after completing the KTAS-based simulation education program, the emergency nurses showed improved clinical decision-making ability, job satisfaction, and customer orientation. Based on the results of this study, it is expected that this educational program can be effectively used for KTAS education, and it was confirmed that simulation-based education is a useful learning method for triage nurses in emergency medical centers.

Keywords: simulation; job satisfaction; nurses; care; triage; emergency service (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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