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?
