Abstract: In order to help emergency medical staff to better understand and accurately apply emergency triage scale，promote emergency nurses’ triage ability to identify emergency and critical patients and ensure patient safety，ensure the smooth implementation of this standard，the standard interpretation was specially prepared. The emergency triage principle，triage level and standard，triage nurse requirements were interpreted to guide the emergency triage for nu ses in China and provide basis for triage training and management.

Key words: Emergency Service, Hospital, Triage, Benchmarking, Standard of Care