How this exercise works
Read the clinical scenario and choose the first nursing action. Use ABC order, airway and breathing emergencies before circulation issues, then less urgent needs.
Fundamental concept
Selecting the first nursing action by addressing airway, breathing, and circulation threats before lesser urgent needs.
Read: ABC Prioritization for NCLEX-PN →Scenario
During pool therapy, a client is pulled from the water coughing weakly, lips cyanotic, SpO₂ 86%, and you hear faint wheezing bilaterally.
During pool therapy, a client is pulled from the water coughing weakly, lips cyanotic, SpO₂ 86%, and you hear faint wheezing bilaterally.
What should the PN do first?
