handling times of patients at a level-1 academic trauma center

Introduction:the patient handling time can affect a patient’s access to critical care; also, there is a relationship between patient handling time in the emergency ward and recovery rates. nurses and staff of emergency wards are essential factors affecting patient flows in emergency wards. materials and methods: this cross-sectional study focused on the flow of patients referring to the level-1 academic traumatic emergency ward during 2018-2019. nurses were divided into two categories of group and small-group training, each receiving two training rounds one month apart. the revised form of timing and workflow emergency checklist was used for evaluation. results: evaluating 600 patients showed that the average time from patient entry to level 3 triage up to file creation was 24.8 minutes before interventions, and the same was 19.6 minutes for small groups and 17.6 for group training category (p<0.05), pointing to the fact that the group training category showed a significant reduction in average time from patient entry to triage to file creation. conclusion:the present study found that the training of nurses is practical for the flow times of patients hospitalized in emergency wards.