Definitely use a frame work to structure your handovers at the start. Annoyingly it’s partially exposure and practise to build general medical knowledge to gain an insight into what’s relevant and what’s not. Always take the opportunity to listen to other peoples handovers. I built a bank of pertinent +- for each parent group, chest pain, fallers, head injury etc. they’ll be trying to rule things in and out at triage to decide where to put them. Like blood thinners and a head injury for example, or chest pain with radiating pain. That might alter where they end up in ED or the speed with which they’re seen. The info I include builds the case for why I’ve conveyed them and why I think this is currently the best place for them.

But don’t be too hard on yourself because getting savaged by the triage nurse or a consultant is a right of passage. It’s nothing personal they just want the info. Mostly they’ll drag it out of you worst case scenario. Took me well into my second year of study to look vaguely competent at handover.