Sheila Quilter Wheeler

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Is Triage Nursing (in Pre-Hospital, Virtual or ED, Urgent Care Settings) a nursing subspecialty or simply a skill?

“Triage Nursing - A Subspecialty or Skill? DEFINITION “In essence, a subspecialty (Cardiology, Oncology, Neonatal) defines what a nurse specializes in, while a skill describes how a nurse provides...

21 May 2025 3,709 4 View

Is triage nursing (remote, telehealth, or emergency department) a nursing subspecialty?

Triage nursing (whether remote, telehealth or emergency department) qualifies as an emerging nursing subspecialty. Triage requires expert clinical decision making and symptom risk estimation....

03 May 2025 8,333 3 View

Do current telehealth software algorithms lead to safe patient outcomes?

Next Generation Guidelines: Reducing Patterns of Recurrent Tele-triage Errors After four decades of working in, and witnessing the idiosyncratic evolution of telehealth and teletriage, Ms. Wheeler...

01 November 2023 2,777 0 View

Is it the objective in tele-triage to diagnose symptoms or to estimate symptom urgency in order to classify symptom acuity for evaluation/treatment?

This ongoing controversy in the field of tele-triage also influences how software is designed and used. In remote encounters, can clinicians (MD's and RN's) really determine the cause (diagnosis)...

11 September 2023 5,885 0 View

Triage standards as a model for teletriage

Triage and Teletriage: On-site triage is challenging, remote Teletriage is complicated and difficult. Both processes involve pattern recognition, “a hallmark and cornerstone of clinical practice...

01 January 1970 4,728 0 View

Teletriage Goal: to diagnose symptoms, or to estimate symptom urgency?

Tele-triage is the unscheduled, patient initiated remote contact to a clinician for potentially urgent symptoms. Is the ultimate goal of teletriage to remotely diagnose symptoms, or to estimate...

01 January 1970 1,776 2 View

AI and Triage: Questions and Assumptions

Playing the Devil’s Advocate A recent JAMA Commentary provides an analysis of ED triage research and the application of AI and Large Language Models (LLM) to ED Triage on-site. Friedmans’s...

01 January 1970 6,958 1 View

Research of AI and Triage: Questions and Assumptions

Playing the Devil’s Advocate A recent JAMA Commentary provides an analysis of ED triage research and the application of AI and Large Language Models (LLM) to ED Triage on-site. Friedmans’s...

01 January 1970 9,599 3 View