[ER] You have several patients, then EMS rolls in with a critical patient while another room starts deteriorating. How do you reprioritize?

Instruction: Explain how you would assess the situation, prioritize, communicate, and escalate in a real clinical setting.

Context: Assesses whether the candidate can handle a realistic travel ER hiring scenario with safe judgment, clear communication, and appropriate escalation.

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I reprioritize immediately around who is at the highest risk of harm in the next few minutes and what support I need to make that work safely. In the ER, reprioritization is constant, so I do not think of it as abandoning one patient for another...

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