Completed Sentinel U Assessment 3 documents — fall prevention care plan, polypharmacy review, cognitive and ADL assessment, SBAR, and post-simulation reflection. Written by a board-certified PMHNP-BC.
Adult medical-surgical prioritization scenario. Tests clinical reasoning for managing multiple adult patients with competing care needs, identifying priority interventions, and communicating safe handoffs.
Sentinel U Assessment 3
The Prioritization of Care Adult Medical v2 scenario places you in a busy adult medical-surgical unit where you must assess multiple patients simultaneously and make evidence-based decisions about who receives care first, what interventions are most urgent, and how to communicate your clinical reasoning clearly to the team. The scenario specifically tests your ability to conduct a fall risk evaluation, identify polypharmacy issues, screen for cognitive changes, assess functional status across activities of daily living, and incorporate age-specific physiological considerations into every clinical decision.
Students frequently lose points on this scenario because prioritization requires applying clinical reasoning frameworks — not just personal judgment. The scenario expects you to document WHY each patient is prioritized using acuity indicators, current orders, and nursing assessment findings — fall risk scores, cognitive screening tools, Beers Criteria for potentially inappropriate medications, and functional independence scales — and connecting all of those findings into a cohesive, actionable care plan. The documents on this page present those connections clearly and with full clinical rationale.
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