Prioritising client care is an essential skills in the clinical practice. As client are individuals, they have distinctive health conditions and demand special treatment for specific illnesses. In addition, the ethical principles of justice declare that all clients have an equal right to receive high quality of nursing care, regardless of their religion and cultural background (NHMRC, 2006). Nevertheless, the issue of imbalanced nurse-to-patient staffing ratio frequently occurs in hospitals, it is necessary to priorities care and get assistance for others to manage time and heavy workload efficiently.
When prioritising care, clients are usually ranked in three different levels based on their health conditions. The first level of issues is life-threatening which demand immediate nursing interventions on all occasions. Clients who have mental status change, acute pain, acute urinary elimination, or untreated medical issues request direct nursing care is classified in the second level. While the third level clients require nursing care, such as monitoring for medication side effects and lack of patient knowledge, which do not request immediate treatment compared to the above two
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They have responsibilities to ensure medical records, laboratory reports, radiological images, and other relevant patient records to be properly and securely stored, but readily available to health care providers (Macquarie university hospital, 2012). Enrolled nurses (EN) are under the direction and supervision of registered nurses, they are assisted with initial and ongoing health assessments and the maintenance of clients’ health. An assistant in nursing (AIN) provides support to nursing staff in order to deliver patient care in the acute setting. And their role is to observe, monitor and assist with patient care under the direct supervision of registered