Lectures 12 prioritization delegation and staff management

- It takes 3 things to pass the NCLEX exam - Knowledge - Confidence - Exam Proficiency - You can’t apply what you don't know, but you have to be able to apply what you do know. - Go with majority: if something is 75% fatal, consider it fatal. - If you try to learn everything you will master nothing. Lecture 12 Prioritization, Delegation, and Staff Management Prioritizing patients - With these questions you are trying to identify either: - The highest priority clients - The lowest priority clients - The answers to prioritization questions always have four parts 1. An Age 2. A Gender 3. A Diagnosis 4. A Modifying Phrase - Example: A 10-year-old male with hypospadias vomiting bile-stained emesis. 1. 10 year old 2. Male 3. Hypospadias 4. Vomiting bile-stained emesis - The age of the client and their gender are irrelevant information. - The diagnosis and the modifying phrase is important information. - The modifying phrase is more important than the diagnosis. - Example: - A client with angina pectoris - A patient with a myocardial infarction (MI) - With just the diagnosis the MI patient is a higher priority. - A client with angina pectoris with unstable blood pressure