DETERMINING THE IMPACT RATE OF TRIAGE TRAINING ON AWARENESS AND SKILL LEVEL OF PRE-HOSPITAL EMERGENCY PERSONNEL OF FASA CITY

This study was conducted with the aim of determining the impact of triage training on awareness and skill level of pre-hospital emergency personnel of Fasa City. The present study is applied in respect of objective. The statistical population of this study includes all members of crisis management system of Fasa emergency 115 (n=103) that the sample was considered equal to the population. The questionnaire has been adjusted based on 5-value Likert scale. For analysis of data collected from Pearson correlation coefficient, the research hypotheses were examined and tested using SPSS software version 18. There is a significant positive relation between participating in training courses and triage awareness of Fasa city pre-hospital emergency personnel. Also, there is a significant and positive relation between participating in training courses and triage skill of Fasa City pre-hospital emergency personnel. Then, with healthcare information, it is recommended that the topics relating to performance and awareness to be noticed by authorities.


INTRODUCTION
Main and primary role of emergency department is to treat severely injured patients 1 . The main prophecy of every emergency department includes providing the most appropriate cares in the shortest possible time 2 . Emergency department s every day faces presence of patients with various problems with varied degrees of severity. Studies show that between 20-60% of total patients referring to emergency department refer to this department due to urgent, but yet simple and without complication problems that the urgent and effective care of them is possible in lower levels of healthcare centers 3 . The hospital emergency department has a special significance since it receives the greatest, most various, most involved and most sensitive group of patients. According to declaration of World Health Organization, one third of hospital beds have been occupied due to incidents that the first place of hospitalizing such patients is the hospitals emergencies and loss due to it is more than 500 million Dollars 4,5 . Most emergency department s doesn't have required facilities proportionate to references rate 6 . Crowd in emergency department s is considerable in all regions of the country as a serious challenge. Sometimes, referees crowd is so that patients wait for more than 60 minutes. This matter is especially significant when cares are provided with delay since influences patients satisfaction rate 7 . Here the triage as the first point of meeting of the hospital emergency team with the patient and his relatives will undertake a unique role in realizing the department final prophecy 8 . Triage in emergency department the quick process of dividing patients referring to emergency so that patients who need more care. In fact, triage is determining correct patient, utilizing correct resources in correct place and time. Triage is the beginning of clinical stages of caring patients and triage and its results analysis indicates performance and status of emergency department 9 . Triage should be performed in the ISSN: 2456-8058 57 CODEN (USA): UJPRA3 hospitals where more than 30000 patients refer to their emergency department each year 10 . Triage in emergency department prioritizes the way of adjusting and scheduling or designating the resources required for the patients and always seeks to provide effective treatment methods for more needful patients and patients with less severity or treatment need generally wait 11 . The results of performance of emergency departments in some countries such as Australia indicates that determining triage in the primary stage is undertaken by professional and skillful nurses (Ton, 2007). Increasing the number of specialized clinical nurses in emergency department minimizes the population crowd and waiting time and leads to patients' satisfaction 12 . Nurses are the greatest and the most important professional group in healthcare system and play a sensible role that should have sufficient skill and attitude in all nursing fields 13 . The required criterion for a nurse (especially in effective triage) is the nursing skill and experience in emergency department especially in fast evaluation and recognition of the patient needs. The ability of these nurses in identifying, interpreting and controlling the patient's physiological abnormalities is very significant.
Since is highly effective in reducing mortality and illness symptoms. Nurses progress in emergency domains depends on sufficient levels of clinical training and supports applied in this field. Lack of standard training in triage domain has some destructive consequences 14 17 . Regarding dynamicity of triage activities, the best and the most experienced people should be selected for this job. Since triage system setting up in the healthcare centers of the country is young, creating triage culture and training during education and after that for emergency personnel is. So, the present study is conducted with the aim of investigating the impact of triage training on awareness and skill of pre-hospital emergency personnel of Fasa City 18 .

METHODOLOGY
The present study method is descriptive of survey type and the statistical population in the present study includes all members of crisis management system of Fasa 115 emergency. And their number according to the obtained statistics is 103. Regarding Cochran table for the limited society, the sample was considered equal to the society 19,20 . All members were considered. For collecting the considered data for the rate of impact of triage training on the skill and awareness of Fasa city pre-hospital emergency personnel the scholar made questionnaire was used. The questionnaires have been adjusted based on 5-value Likert scale and include 5 ranges ( very low, low, mean, high, very high) which has designated scores 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 respectively from very low to very high. This questionnaire includes 29 questions. The validity indicator of assessment tool items was of nominal validity of expert's consensus and the validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by analyzing exploratory factor and reliability was confirmed using Cronbach's alpha method that reliability factor of 0.83 was obtained for the whole questionnaire. The results have been stated regarding SPSS software and statistics in two levels of descriptive and inferential 21 .

RESEARCH FINDINGS
For using parametric tests in order to investigate the research hypotheses, the normality of variables using Kolmogorov-Smirnov was confirmed (by observing Table 1 and investigating significance of all subscales that are greater than 0.05) 22,23 .
As it is observed in Table 2, regarding the correlation factor and significance level (r=0.727, p=0.001), there is a significance and positive relation between participating in training classes and awareness of triage of Fasa City pre-hospital emergency personnel. Regarding the correlation factor and significance level (p=0.001, r=0.696), there is a significance and positive relation between training classes and skill towards triage of Fasa city pre-hopsital emergency personnel.
As it is observed in Table 3, regarding the obtained correlation factor and significance level, there is no significant relation between any of demographic features (age, service record, education rate, sport history, marital status) and awareness towards emergency personnel triage 24 .
As it is observed in Table 4, regarding obtained correlation factor rate and significance level, there is no significance relation between any of demographic features (age, service record, education rate, sport history, marital status) with skill towards Fasa City prehospital emergency personnel triage skill. Table 5 shows the average impact of triage training on awareness level Fasa city pre-university emergency personnel and their comparison with acceptable adequacy level criteria (Q2) and optimal level (Q3). It is observed that the average of impact of triage training factors (3.61) has been evaluated higher than acceptable adequacy level (Q2=3), based on the obtained t rate in freedom degree of 102, a significance difference has been obtained in level 0.0001 between two averages. The average of triage training impact on awareness level of Fasa City pre-hospital emergency personnel has been observed lower than optimal level (Q3=4) and based on the obtained t rate in freedom level 102 a significance difference has been obtained in 0.0001 level between these two averages. These findings means that the impact rate of triage training on awareness level of Fasa City pre-hospital emergency personnel is higher than acceptable adequacy level but lower than the optimal level 25 . Table 6 shows that average of triage training impact on Fasa City pre-hospital emergency personnel skill level and also its comparison with criteria of acceptable adequacy level (Q2) and optimal level (Q3). It is observed that the average of triage training impact (3.57) has been evaluated higher than acceptable adequacy level (Q2=3). Based on the t rate obtained in freedom degree 102, a significance difference in level 0.0001 between two averages has been obtained. The average of triage training impact on Fasa City prehospital emergency personnel skill level has been evaluated lower than optimal level (Q3=4) and based on the t rate obtained in freedom degree 102, a significance difference has been obtained in level 0.0001 between these two averages. These findings mean that the impact rate of triage training on Fasa City pre-hospital emergency personnel skill level is higher than the acceptable level but lower than the optimal level 26 .

DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION
The results of the study showed that there is a positive and significant relation between participating in training classes and awareness of Fasa City prehospital emergency towards triage.  35 . Also, there is a significant and positive relation between demographic features and their performance. Kalantari et al. in studying the impact of training on awareness and performance of emergency department nurses in the field of patients triage concluded that there was no significant relation between nurses personal features and their score 6 weeks after training, while there was a significant relation between nursing history, working in emergency department, type of employment and average of performance scores in six week after training 36 . Also, no significant relation was found between type of academic degree, marital status and gender of participating people and the average of awareness scores and performance in six weeks after completion of training workshop. And it seems that