Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs | Nursing School Quick Tips

15 Apr 2022 · 1 min

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In this concise instructional video, the presenter introduces the second prioritization principle for nursing students: Maslow's hierarchy of needs. She advises that both during exams and while providing patient care, nurses should address needs in the hierarchical order—starting with physiological needs, then safety, followed by love and belonging, esteem, and finally self‑actualization. By consistently solving the most basic needs first, students can more effectively prioritize tasks, make clinical decisions, and improve patient outcomes.

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Prioritization Principle number two for nursing school is Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Always keep this in mind as you are taking your nursing school exam and as you are working with your patients at clinical. So make sure that you are solving for their physiological needs first. Then their safety needs, love and belonging needs, self esteem needs, and self actualization needs in this order. So you always solve for physiological and safety needs first, then you can move down the tier. So, love and belonging, self esteem and self actualization. Self actualization actualization. So this is Maslow's hierarchy of needs. So keep this in mind as you're taking your exams in nursing school and as you're working with your patients at clinical.