Verb. (intransitive) To take a dose of insulin at a mealtime in order to control one’s blood glucose level in diabetes.

A bolus is a single, large dose of medicine. For a person with diabetes, a bolus is a dose of insulin taken to handle a rise in blood glucose (a type of sugar), like the one that happens during eating. A bolus is given as a shot or through an insulin pump.

What is another word for bolus?

pill	tablet
pastille	dose
medication	medicine
drop	tab
ball	gum

urgency noun [U] (IMPORTANCE) the quality of being very important and needing attention immediately: It now is a matter of urgency that aid reaches the famine area.

adjective. compelling or requiring immediate action or attention; imperative; pressing: an urgent matter. insistent or earnest in solicitation; importunate, as a person: an urgent pleader.

urge. (transitive) To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward. (transitive) To press the mind or will of; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity.

In a business context, to have a sense of urgency is to act promptly and with intention to make things happen efficiently and effectively. Having a sense of urgency means doing what needs to be done immediately, without being asked and in the most thorough way possible in order to create change.

Urgency is defined as something requiring fast or swift action, or it means insistent or having a persistent quality. When a situation of grave danger requires you to act now, this is an example of urgency. When you speak with great persistence and passion, this is an example of a time when you speak with urgency. noun.

: the quality or state of requiring immediate action or attention “Let’s get out of here!” he said with a sense of urgency.

Recent research has considered the traits of negative urgency (NUR) and positive urgency (PUR), the tendency to act rashly while experiencing a negative or positive emotional state, respectively, and their effect in risky behaviors.

Urgent tasks are mostly tasks that have an immediate deadline or a deadline that has passed. Important tasks, on the other hand, need not have a deadline looming over the person. They are important because of the impact that they can have on the person’s life.

Most people default to doing urgent tasks first — the problem is that if you’re always doing urgent tasks, you’re not able to accomplish important tasks. Urgent tasks always come up. And there will always be more urgent tasks than you have time to accomplish, no matter how hard you try.

Urgent communications to employees are messages that must be read or received immediately as the subject involves something that may affect an employee’s safety, ability to work or some other catastrophic event.

In a 1954 speech to the Second Assembly of the World Council of Churches, former U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was quoting Dr J. The urgent are not important, and the important are never urgent.” This “Eisenhower Principle” is said to be how he organized his workload and priorities.

The Eisenhower Matrix, also referred to as Urgent-Important Matrix, helps you decide on and prioritize tasks by urgency and importance, sorting out less urgent and important tasks which you should either delegate or not do at all.

A crucial stage in the formulation of operations strategy is the derivation of a ranked (or rated) list of competitive factors such as quality, flexibility, cost, etc. A 2×2 matrix of importance / performance can be used but may be found too crude. …

How to prioritize work when everything’s important

1. Seven strategies for prioritizing tasks at work.
2. Have a list that contains all tasks in one.
3. Identify what’s important: Understanding your true goals.
4. Highlight what’s urgent.
5. Prioritize based on importance and urgency.
6. Avoid competing priorities.
7. Consider effort.

Six Methods for Prioritizing Your Tasks

1. Use a priority matrix. Take all of your tasks and assign each a priority based on this priority matrix from Steven Covey:
2. Use relative prioritization.
3. Make a prioritized task list for today.
4. Focus on your Most Important Tasks (MITs)
5. Pick a single thing to focus on.
6. Find your 20% task.

“I am used to working under tight deadlines, so I set my most urgent tasks at the top of my to-do list every morning when I get to work. Then, I establish a clear deadline for myself that’s usually a day in advance of company due dates. Recently, I had to shift around my workload to accommodate an urgent product order.

With 2-3 priorities, you’ll likely achieve them all with excellence. With 4-10 priorities, you will likely achieve only 1-2 with excellence. With 10 or more priorities, you will be unlikely to achieve any with excellence.

What Are The Top 7 Priorities To Have In Life?

• Your Life Mission. Your life missions are priorities that give you meaning and happiness.
• Physical Health. Your health is highly crucial and should be first on your list of priorities.
• Quality Time With Family.
• Healthy Relationships.
• Mental Health.
• Finances.
• Self-Improvement.

Technically, you can’t have more than one priority. Priority should technically be singular. Priority means “most important.” So you can have a most important thing, and a second most important thing. But you can’t have two things that are both the most important thing. At least not at the same time.

1. Schedule Work Effectively. Your first step is to clarify your current priorities and to manage your schedule effectively.
2. Negotiate Deadlines. Once you’ve clarified your priorities, look at your responsibilities and identify any deadlines that you need to re-negotiate.
3. Manage Expectations.
4. Be Professional.
5. Be Flexible.

How to Prioritize Work and Meet Deadlines When Everything Is #1

1. Collect a list of all your tasks. Pull together everything you could possibly consider getting done in a day.
2. Identify urgent vs. important.
3. Assess value.
4. Order tasks by estimated effort.
5. Be flexible and adaptable.
6. Know when to cut.

Executive Assistant Best Practices

1. Focus on high-value activities.
2. Focus on and finish all the important, urgent tasks.
3. Start with the end in mind.
4. Ask for specific deadlines.
5. If you support multiple leaders and feel conflicted as to what takes precedence, ask the group to decide the order and then tell you.

1. Organize all paperwork and materials for each project.
2. Break down each project into tasks.
3. Establish a timeline for each project.
4. Identify project tasks that pose conflict.
5. Prioritize one project over another for tasks that conflict.
6. Delegate tasks to other team members.
7. Stay abreast of each project’s progression.

Bonus Rule: Conflicting Priorities are Really Conflicting Objectives. If, for example, you find that you are in a situation where you are conflicted between delivering a quality product late or a good-but-not-great product on time, you simply need to back up and consider your objectives.

Here are some practical tips for managing multiple deadlines without exhausting yourself in the process:

1. Diarise your deadlines.
2. Prioritise your tasks.
3. Set a personal deadline.
4. Break down your workload.
5. Minimise distractions.
6. Stick to your working hours.
7. Stay healthy.
8. Be honest.

: being in conflict, collision, or opposition : incompatible conflicting theories.