You are presented with a case scenario of Mr. Bandler, a 36-year-old male, who is in the emergency short-stay unit for assessment of elevated blood glucose levels. Part A: Assessment for Care Planning You have been provided with a handover
Assignment Task
Aligned subject learning outcomes
- Apply principles of culturally safe person-centred care in the provision of fundamental nursing care across the lifespan.
- Utilise assessment data to identify, plan and review nursing interventions and communicate outcomes.
- Demonstrate practical application of principles of asepsis and simple and complex wound management.
- Utilise the NSQHS Medication Safety Standard as a framework for safe medication administration and management.
- Apply the Registered Nurse Standards for Practice and the National Safety and Quality Standards in the provision of evidence-based nursing care.
Description
The aim of this assessment is to develop your ability to plan, implement and document appropriate nursing care. Nurses use a range of sources, methods and processes to collect and analyse data to inform nursing care and interventions. Using a case study, you will apply the knowledge and skills you have gained in this subject to demonstrate your ability to assess and use your clinical reasoning and decision-making skills to plan and provide safe nursing care. It also gives you the opportunity to demonstrate your understanding of different cultural, lifespan considerations and person-centred care principles.
You are now preparing for your first-year professional experience placement (PEP). To ensure you provide safe and effective quality person-centred nursing care and maximise your learning potential during placement, it is important to develop a robust theoretical understanding of how, when, and why nursing care is performed. This forms a large part of your future role and responsibility as a registered nurse. Keep in mind that the information and nursing interventions that you have learnt throughout this subject have built upon your learning from all previous subjects undertaken. This assessment task will help you use what you have learnt to develop your capability (knowledge, abilities and attributes) to provide safe person-centred care.
Case Scenario
You are presented with a case scenario of Mr. Bandler, a 36-year-old male, who is in the emergency short-stay unit for assessment of elevated blood glucose levels.
Part A: Assessment for Care Planning
You have been provided with a handover using the ISBAR format from night duty to AM shift. Charts and forms from Mr. Bandler's medical record are available to assist you. Please note: charts are deliberately not dated so are to be considered current. For assessment purposes please use the most recent set of vital signs and BGL at 0600am.
The RN you are working with has identified a problem in related to Mr. Bandler:
Mr. Bandler is experiencing an elevated blood glucose level related to newly diagnosed Type 2 diabetes melitus.
The RN has asked you to:
1. Create a person-centred SMART goal for the problem statement, it is important to clearly specify what you want to happen and by when.
2. Identify two independent nursing interventions for the problem statement and provide a rationale for each of the interventions. Each intervention must have an evidence-based rationale with references to explain why that intervention is appropriate to achieve.
3. Briefly describe how you will assess if your interventions have been effective. Think about what assessments you can do to evaluate this.
Part B: Patient education (3-minute voice recording)
Problem Statement: Mr. Bandler is experiencing an elevated blood glucose level related to a knowledge deficit in relation to his new diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes Mellitus.
Smart Goal: Mr. Bandler will verbalize accurate information about Type 2 diabetes Mellitus by discharge.
Nursing Intervention: Provide patient education
Record the education you would give Mr. Bandler AND the nursing care that will be undertaken to address the problem statement.