The most important thing you must consider for this assignment is that it is sequential. This means you cannot answer the questions out of sequence, the assignment won’t make sense to the marker if you attempt to do this. For example to answer Q3 you should have answered Q2 first and so on.

Q1: Is asking you to consider how the stress of the operation might affect his blood pressure. Do not confuse this with how diabetes and hypertension will affect his wound healing, that is not what the question is asking you.

Q2: Is asking you to consider the most important problems – remember ABCDE.

Q3: Is asking you to identify patient centered nursing goals for the problems you have identified from Q2 – I would strongly urge you to review the PowerPoint on Goal Setting as to how to write a concise patient centred nursing goal.

Q4: Is asking you to only pick 2 of those nursing goals (any 2 the choice is yours) and using the literature provide an evidenced-based rationale as to why these interventions are appropriate in this case.

• Minimum 20 references;
• Can use books as references but maximum of 5 and must be no later than 5 years old;
• Can use reputable medical/nursing based websites – 5 maximum;
• Can reference journal articles up to 10 years old;
• The assignment is a case study so can use question and answer format – no need for introduction and conclusion;
• APA referencing as per QUT referencing policy.