Abdominal pain is among the most common emergency department complaints, presenting unique diagnostic and treatment challenges. The broad range of differential diagnoses creates the risk of a missed diagnosis, over-investigation resulting in resource misappropriation, and undue intervention. Furthermore, nurses providing triage should have established triage and communication protocols in place. The South Jordan University of Utah community clinic (SJUC) is in the unique position of having an urgent and a stand-alone emergency department. The urgent care nurses triage patients with acute symptoms to either the urgent care or the emergency department (ED). There is currently not a standardized triage protocol in place.
