Nurse Q has spent a good part of her shift listening to patient Z's mother demand more nursing care for her son
She has repeatedly demanded additional pain medication and that he be repositioned every hour even though he is snoring loudly each time Nurse Q enters his room. Four hours into her shift, Nurse Q decides to change her activity plan and requests another nurse and NAP to take on additional duties so that she can spend more time attending to patient Z, thus causing his mother to stop hovering around the nurses' station. Into which of the following priority traps did Nurse Q fall? a. doing what hits first
b. taking the path of least resistance
c. relying on misguided inspiration
d. responding to the squeaky wheel
D
The above scenario with patient Z's mother constantly demanding more nursing care for her son even though he appears to be sleeping soundly can be a rather common occurrence for nurses. When Nurse Q reprioritizes her workload and reassigns some of her duties to others, she is responding to the squeaky wheel, which is considered to be a prioritization trap.
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