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The document provides guidelines for prioritizing patients and answering nursing questions, including: 1) Prioritizing patients based on factors like stability, acuity, age, and triage categories (red, yellow, green); 2) Answering nursing questions by following the nursing process, starting with assessment, and choosing interventions that are independent, interdependent, or dependent on doctors; 3) Recognizing that for signs/symptoms and complications prevention, answers should focus on early signs and stable/urgent conditions over late signs and emergent/unstable conditions.

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All Absolute Statements With Words Like and Is Considered A and Is Therefore

The document provides guidelines for prioritizing patients and answering nursing questions, including: 1) Prioritizing patients based on factors like stability, acuity, age, and triage categories (red, yellow, green); 2) Answering nursing questions by following the nursing process, starting with assessment, and choosing interventions that are independent, interdependent, or dependent on doctors; 3) Recognizing that for signs/symptoms and complications prevention, answers should focus on early signs and stable/urgent conditions over late signs and emergent/unstable conditions.

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  • Understanding Absolute Statements: Explains why statements with absolute terms like 'all' and 'never' are generally incorrect in the context of tests.
  • Handling Negative Modifiers in Questions: Guides how to deal with questions containing negative modifiers, focusing on selecting negative statements with 'no' or 'not'.
  • Eliminating Certain Statements: Advises on eliminating statements with certain keywords such as 'I am sure' or 'why', particularly in assessing patients.
  • Nursing Priorities: Distinguishes between different types of priorities in nursing, including safety and client-centered approaches.
  • Nurse-Centered Question Process: Describes how to approach nurse-centered questions by focusing on the nursing process starting with assessments.
  • Actions for Initial Questions: Recommends focusing on verbs like 'assess', 'check', 'determine', and 'ask' in questions with 'initial' or 'primary'.
  • Nursing Implementation Actions: Discusses how to base answers on the nursing process and actions when dealing with implementation questions.
  • Answering Evaluation Questions: Guides on including expected outcomes and effects in answers to evaluation questions.
  • Signs and Symptoms Questions: Answers for these questions should focus on prevention of complications.
  • Reading Questions Carefully: Emphasizes the importance of reading questions carefully as answers may be within them.
  • Prioritizing Interventions: Guidance on choosing interventions based on a sequence prioritizing nursing, collaborative, and doctor-prescribed interventions.
  • Acute vs. Chronic Priorities: Emphasizes the priority of acute, unstable, and invasive conditions over chronic, stable, and non-invasive ones.
  • Age and Sign Priority: Advises prioritizing based on age and signs, with early signs taking precedence over late signs.
  • Fire Situation Protocols: Explains prioritization in fire situations and levels of emergent, stable, and chronic cases.
  • Triage Protocols: Describes triage systems in emergencies, focusing on mass disasters and life-threatening situations.
  • Emergent Cases: Outlines conditions that are emergent and should receive immediate attention.
  • Urgent Cases: Lists conditions classified as urgent, which require timely but secondary consideration.
  • Non-Urgent Cases: Defines non-urgent cases, where care can be delayed significantly.
  • Expectant Cases: Describes expectant scenarios in which patients are unlikely to survive.

All absolute statements

with words like ALL and


NEVER is considered a
negative statement and is
therefore incorrect.
If questions have negative
modifiers such as except, least
likely, inappropriate, needs
further teaching, all but one -
choose a negative statement
answer/choice with words such
as NO and NOT in the statement
*Statement of nurse with words
“I am sure” - eliminate
*Statement asking/with word
“why” - eliminate especially if
nurse is asking patient.
Exemption if nurse is asking the
significant others
Psyche = priority is SAFETY
CHN = priority is CLIENT CENTERED
MS= ABC & pain

MASLOW’S HEIRARCHY OF
NEEDS – important to know and
PRIORITIZE
If question is nurse
centered, answer is
based on nursing
process (start with
assessment always)
Questions with words like
INITIAL, PRIMARY and
FIRST - choose answers
with words like assess,
check, determine and ask
in the statement
For implementation
questions, based your
answers using NURSING
PROCESS showing
NURSING ACTIONS
Evaluation questions,
answers should state
expected outcomes,
desired effects, and
effect.
For signs and
symptoms question -
answer should be
based on prevention
of complications.
Read questions
carefully, sometimes
answers are found in
the question.
Prioritizing intervention
questions choose answers
following this sequence:
o Independent – nursing
prescribed intervention
o Interdependent - collaborative
approach
o Dependent - doctor prescribed
ACUTE VS CHRONIC,
acute is priority
STABLE VS UNSTABLE,
unstable is priority
INVASIVE VS NON
INVASIVE, invasive is priority
TOO OLD AND TOO
YOUNG SHOULD ALWAYS
BE THE PRIORITY
TOO OLD VS TOO YOUNG
(neonate or infants), too young is
priority
EARLY SIGNS VS LATE
SIGNS, early signs are priority
Prioritizing intervention questions
choose answers following this
sequence: Fire situation
o RACE
3 levels of prioritizing
o LEVEL 1 - EMERGENT
o LEVEL 2 - STABLE OR
URGENT
o LEVEL 3 – CHRONIC
***TRIAGE***
TRIAGE REFERS TO EVALUATION AND
CATEGORIZATION OF THE SICK OR WOUNDED
WHEN THERE ARE INSUFFICIENT RESOURCES
FOR MEDICAL CARE OF EVERYONE AT ONCE

MASS DISASTER - priority


people who can survive
Emergency - priority people
with life threatening condition.
RED- “EMERGENT”
-WHO CANNOT SURVIVE WITHOUT
IMMEDIENT TREATMENT BUT WHO HAVE A
CHANCE TO SURVIVE, LIFE THREATENING
CONDITION
*CHOKING *AIRWAY TRAUMA
*ASPHYSIA *HCO3 POISONING
*SEVERE TRAUMA *HYPOVOLEMIC SHOCK
*ANAPHYLAXIS *BURNS (FACE, NECK, CHEST)

***SHOULD BE PRIORITIZED OVER THE OTHERS IN A CONTROLLED


ENVIRONMENT
YELLOW “URGENT”
-HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BE LIFE
THREATENING
-REQUIRES OBSERVATION AND CARE CAN
BE DELAYED BY TO 6 HOURS UNTIL
ASSESSMENT IS DONE. (PWEDENG LUMALA)
*HEAD INJURY
*ABDOMINAL
*INJURY
*BURN
GREEN “NON-URGENT”
-WAIT
-MINOR INJURIES OR “WALKING
WOUNDED”
-CARE CAN BE DELAYED UP TO
24HOURS
BLACK “EXPECTANT”
-FOR THOSED CLIENT THAT WILL EXPIRE
WITH OR WITHOUT MEDICAL
INTERVENTION
-DECEASED OR WILL NOT BE AVAIL TO
SURVIVE GIVEN THAT CARE IS AVAILABLE
*APNEIC OR CYANOTIC
*DEAD ON ARRIVAL
*GCS 3 OR TOTALLY UNRESPONSIVE
WHITE “DISMISS” INJURIES FOR WHOM A DOCTOR’S CARE IS NOT
REQUIRED.

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