What this book owns, and where the rest lives
The caveat mark: a hollow square attached to a sample scope row with a thin leader running to the sentence "state Nurse Practice Act governs," drawn once here and reused unchanged on pages 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, and 14.
WHAT THIS BOOK OWNS
Before a word of content, here is the contract. The left column is what you paid for and what you will be able to do when you close this book. The middle column is what this book uses but does not teach, because a different book in the family teaches it properly. The right column is what this book deliberately refuses, so that you never read a half-explanation here and assume it was the whole explanation.
| OWNS | BORROWS | DOES NOT COVER |
|---|---|---|
| Airway, breathing, circulation, and the pulseless exception | Reference ranges and critical values → BOOK 07 | Clinical judgment model mechanics → BOOK 02 |
| Acute over chronic | Any dosage or rate calculation → BOOK 06 | Bowtie and trend construction → BOOK 02 |
| Unstable over stable | Drug-class reasoning inside a priority stem → BOOK 05 | Next generation item anatomy and scoring → BOOK 02 |
| Unexpected over expected | Rhythm urgency and telemetry meaning → BOOK 08 | Isolation categories and chain of infection → BOOK 04 |
| Safety and risk reduction | Post-operative pulmonary complications → BOOK 09 | Personal protective equipment sequence → BOOK 04 |
| Maslow, and the narrow place it decides | Rapid response clinical criteria → BOOK 09 | Restraint documentation and monitoring → BOOK 04 |
| Least restrictive option | Fall risk scoring instruments → BOOK 15 | Therapeutic communication technique → BOOK 14 |
| Which-patient-first drills, at volume | Discharge criteria by procedure → BOOK 12 | Head-to-toe assessment technique → BOOK 15 |
| The five rights of delegation, run as gates | Anticoagulant monitoring values → BOOK 07 | Study scheduling and countdown plans → BOOK 16 |
| RN, LPN/LVN, and UAP scope grids | ||
| The never-delegate list | ||
| Building and rebuilding a shift assignment | ||
| Supervision, follow-up, and evaluation | ||
| Escalation and chain of command | ||
| Interruption control on a real shift |
Legend
- Filled bar at the left edge of a strip: how fast this can hurt someone. Solid red is minutes, amber is this shift, grey is informational.
- Drill glyph: a bracketed number. It means write in the book.
- Hollow square: the state Nurse Practice Act mark. It appears beside every scope claim in this book without exception.
Margin noteif it's a number, it's Book 7.
Watch outno scope row anywhere in this book is nationally uniform. Read the hollow square every time you see it, then check your own state board of nursing before you practice.
Takeawaythree columns, three answers. Mine, borrowed, and someone else's.
→ BOOK 01 · P19 for the family map. → BOOK 02 · P3 for the clinical judgment model.