Subject Code & Title :- NUR239 Nursing
Assignment Type :- Assessment
Task Description :-
In this assessment task you are required to watch a video scenario of a team of health care professionals involved in managing the care of a deteriorating patient.
NUR239 Nursing Assessment
As you view the scenario you might like to take notes.
We know it is difficult to identify the roles of the healthcare staff in this video the two female nursing staff are wearing the speckled blue shirts the female physiotherapist is wearing the red shirt the two male doctors are in the grey shirt and the blue scrub top, and the female junior doctor is in the white shirt.
The first part of the assessment requires you to critically reflect on the implementation of the A to E assessment framework primary survey by each individual and the team as a whole. This section is worth 45% of your marks for this assessment so it is important that you are clear on what you need to do well here.
NUR239 Nursing Assessment
Think about what they did well and how they could improve in terms of a structured approach to the A to E assessment. What do you think about the choice of nursing and pharmacological interventions considerations? What is considered best practice in the literature? Remember that scholarly literature isn’t restricted to journal articles.
NUR239 Nursing Assessment
Clinical practice guidelines are considered very high-level evidence guiding best- practice management of patients. It is important that you know where to find reliable evidence so that you can ensure the care you are providing to your patients for the rest of your career is considered best practice.
Through out your degree you will use the clinical reasoning cycle as the frame work for learning how to think like a Registered Nurse. For this reason we would like to see you apply clinical reasoning as you evaluate the care provided to the deteriorating patient in the scenario.
NUR239 Nursing Assessment
The second part of the assessment (which is worth 35% of your marks for the assignment requires you to critically analyse the video scenario with a focus on the inter professional communication and person-centred approach provided by the team and their impact on the patient outcome. At the end of module 1 we have provided what we consider to be) an excellent summary of teamwork and inter professional communication behaviours which promote patient safety (Levett-Jones, 2020. p.39).
NUR239 Nursing Assessment
We encourage you to use this table to assist with the analysis of the video scenario.
Think about how the behaviours of the healthcare professionals contribute to effective inter professional communication and the provision of person centred care and how these behaviours may contribute to patient outcomes.
In this section it is important that you make reference to the NMBA Registered Nurse Standards for Practice (2016) and the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards (2019) as you reflect on the inter professional communication and person-centred care impact on patient outcomes.