Chapter 2 - Prioritization
2.1. PRIORITIZATION INTRODUCTIONLearning Objectives• Prioritize nursing care based on patient acuity• Use principles of time management to organize work• Analyze effectiveness of time management strategies• Use critical thinking to prioritize nursing care for patients• Apply a framework for prioritization (e.g., Maslow, ABCs)“So much to do, so little time.” This is a common mantra of today’s practicing nurse in various health care settings. Whether practicing in acute inpatient care, long-term care, clinics, home care, or other agencies, nurses may feel there is “not enough of them to go around.”The health care system faces a significant challenge in balancing the ever-expanding task of meeting patient care needs with scarce nursing resources that has even worsened as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. With a limited supply of registered nurses, nurse managers are often challenged to implement creative staffing practices such as sending staff to units where they do not normally work (i...
