Written by Martha M. Leonard and Una Kyriacos was recently published in Nurse Education Today. The article is in Press, meaning that it is accepted, peer reviewed but volume and issue numbers have not been assigned. Here is the summary as available from Sciencedirect Background There is increasing urgency for nurses to recognize early signs of deterioration in patients and to take appropriate action to prevent serious adverse effects. Objectives to assess respondents’ ability to identify abnormal recordings for respiratory and heart rate, oxygen saturation level, systolic blood pressure, level of consciousness, urinary output and normal temperature. A nursing college in Cape Town, South Africa. A sample of 77/212 (36.3%) fourth year students. A self-administered adapted questionnaire was employed to collect demographic data and respondents’ selections of recorded physiological values for the purpose of deciding when to call for more skilled help. The median age for 62/77 (