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Nursing Management and Professional Concepts 2e: II Glossary

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“II Glossary” in “Nursing Management and Professional Concepts 2e”

II Glossary

ABCs: Airway, breathing, and circulation.

Actual problems: Nursing problems currently occurring with the client.

Acuity: The level of client care that is required based on the severity of a client’s illness or condition.

Acuity-rating staffing models: A staffing model used to make client assignments that reflects the individualized nursing care required for different types of clients.

Acute conditions: Conditions having a sudden onset.

Chronic conditions: Conditions that have a slow onset and may gradually worsen over time.

Clinical reasoning: “A complex cognitive process that uses formal and informal thinking strategies to gather and analyze client information, evaluate the significance of this information, and weigh alternative actions.”[1]

Critical thinking: A broad term used in nursing that includes “reasoning about clinical issues such as teamwork, collaboration, and streamlining workflow.”[2]

CURE hierarchy: A strategy for prioritization based on identifying “critical” needs, “urgent” needs, “routine” needs, and “extras.”

Data cues: Pieces of significant clinical information that direct the nurse toward a potential clinical concern or a change in condition.

Expected conditions: Conditions that are likely to occur or anticipated in the course of an illness, disease, or injury.

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs: Prioritization strategies often reflect the foundational elements of physiological needs and safety and progress toward higher levels.

Ratio-based staffing models: A staffing model used to make client assignments in terms of one nurse caring for a set number of clients.

Risk problem: A nursing problem that reflects that a client may experience a problem but does not currently have signs reflecting the problem is actively occurring.

Time estimation: A prioritization strategy including the review of planned tasks and allocation of time believed to be required to complete each task.

Time scarcity: A feeling of racing against a clock that is continually working against you.

Unexpected conditions: Conditions that are not likely to occur in the normal progression of an illness, disease, or injury.


  1. Klenke-Borgmann, L., Cantrell, M. A., & Mariani, B. (2020). Nurse educator’s guide to clinical judgment: A review of conceptualization, measurement, and development. Nursing Education Perspectives, 41(4), 215-221. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.nep.0000000000000669 ↵
  2. Klenke-Borgmann, L., Cantrell, M. A., & Mariani, B. (2020). Nurse educator’s guide to clinical judgment: A review of conceptualization, measurement, and development. Nursing Education Perspectives, 41(4), 215-221. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.nep.0000000000000669 ↵
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