On Tuesday, the Emergency Nurses Association advanced its commitment to ensuring timely and precise patient assessments with the release of the Emergency Severity Index Handbook, 5 th Edition, and ...

dlewis33/Getty Images. ... or Emergency Severity Index. The ESI rates patients from 1 to 5 in terms of the seriousness, or "acuity," of the condition, with 1 being the most serious.

Emergency Departments (ED), given the wide range of what is considered an emergency, are never first-come, first-served. Patients are prioritized by a five-level Emergency Severity Index (ESI). A ...

About The Study: In this study of 249,000 visits to seven academic and community hospital emergency departments, patients who identified as Black, Hispanic, and Other race and ethnicity were ...

SCHAUMBURG, Ill., March. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- For emergency nurses who expect the unexpected in their emergency department, the ability to rapidly and accurately triage patients can make all ...