Prioritization
NCLEX-RN glossary · Management Of Care
Definition
The rank-ordering of nursing actions based on the immediate threat to client survival. It operationalizes the hierarchy of needs, ensuring unstable cues are addressed before stable ones.
Prioritization in plain English
This is critical for safe multi-client management, ensuring that resources are allocated to clients at the highest risk of physiological collapse. A frequent error is selecting a clinically 'correct' but non-urgent intervention over one that addresses an immediate life threat to an unstable client.
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