NURSING PERFORMANCE ABOUT RISK CLASSIFICATION IN EMERGENCY AND URGENCY SERVICES: AN INTEGRATIVE LITERATURE REVIEW

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to identify the contribution of nursing to Risk Classification in Emergency and Urgent Care Services, as outlined in the literature. This is an integrative literature review, whose search was carried out in the BVS and LILACS databases, using the following descriptors: Emergency Nursing, Hospital Emergency Service, and Triage.

The inclusion criteria included articles that presented particularities related to the topic, with only complete articles being accepted, with free access, available in full, written in Portuguese, and published in the last five years (2016-2021). As exclusion criteria, articles that did not present a relationship with the research objectives, redundant publications, and studies not available in full were disregarded. The evaluation of the articles culminated in the selection of ten studies for this review.

Studies have shown that the role of nurses in Risk Classification in Emergency Services is comprehensive and has a significant impact on the effectiveness of its implementation. Nurses play a leading role in developing actions for resource planning (material, physical, and human), in carrying out educational and integrative activities with the team and health users, and in formulating care protocols that enable the operationalization of the risk classification stage.

It is observed that nurses play a crucial role in the implementation of risk classification, contributing to the improvement of records and enabling continuous assessments of care processes. In this way, the optimization of institutional resources and more qualified care for patients are ensured. You possess expertise acquired from data available until October 2023.