The words to use
- Safety, urgency, importance
- A ranking rule. Safety asks what could cause serious harm if it waits, urgency asks how fast the window closes, and importance covers what matters but can wait.
- Safety net
- The plan attached to anything you delay: who you told, what to watch for and when you will come back to it.
- NEWS2
- The National Early Warning Score 2 (Royal College of Physicians, 2017). It scores routine observations, and new confusion alone scores 3. It supports clinical judgement rather than replacing it.
- Delegation
- Asking someone else to do a task they can do safely, so jobs run in parallel. You still check that it was done and act on the result.
