Three frameworks help nursing students answer exam questions: prioritize ABCs (airway, breathing, circulation), use Maslow's hierarchy of needs to order problems, and always assess before intervening. These three tools structure safe, logical answers.
Here's three principles you're going to want to follow when you answer nursing exam questions. So the first one is the abcs Airway, breathing and circulation. If one of these things is not happening, that is bad news. So we always want to make sure that's our top priorities. Airway, breathing and circulation. The Maslow's hierarchy of needs is the next thing you're going to want to keep in mind as you take your nursing school exams. So we want to make sure that we are always solving for physiological needs first, and then safety needs, love and belonging needs, sex, self esteem and self actualization needs, in that order. So physiological needs are first, and then safety needs, and then moves up the ladder from there. Then the nursing process is the last one. So make sure that you are always, always assessing your patient first before you do anything else.
