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Medical-Surgical Nursing · Chapter 1

Cue Sorter: Abnormal, Unexpected, or Neither

Recognising cues is not spotting abnormal numbers — it is deciding which abnormal numbers are unexpected for this diagnosis, this timeline and this patient’s own baseline. Sort every finding in the case, then turn the surviving cluster into one working hypothesis and follow the mechanism.

Choose a case

Abnormal but expected — monitor Act on it — abnormal and unexpected Not a cue — in range, unchanged

Analysis

Sort every finding on the left, then press Analyse my cues. Nothing is graded until you do.