ABSTRACT
'Sticky moments' takes a number of incidents or situations similar to ones which students will experience during the placement. Students are asked to make priorities in relation to these incidents and to think about the criteria which they have used to make these priorities. The purpose of 'Sticky moments' is to encourage students to think about how they make decisions when there are conflicting priorities. Students can 'weigh' each criterion by considering how a small change in the circumstances alters their priorities. The medical services put all their energies into the middle category, leaving the first group to recover unaided and leaving the last group to die. This method of making priorities was called triage. Effectiveness is an important ethical consideration not only for individual workers but for the agencies in which they work. There is a disproportionate unconcern within agencies with self-evaluation.
