Assignment: Patient Requiring Hospitalization
Assignment: Patient Requiring Hospitalization
Assignment: Patient Requiring Hospitalization
Nursing practise
Nursing Practice
Assessment 1: Case Study
Nursing management of a patient requiring hospitalisation
Length: 2500 words
The aim and purpose of Assessment 1 is to provide students the opportunity to demonstrate they:
• Are developing their ability to locate, interpret, integrate, synthesize and apply nursing knowledge from NUR243, other units they have comleted and a range of current, reliable sources to a patient or scenario they may meet in day to day nursing practice in medical/surgical settings
• Are developing appropriate critical thinking, clinical reasoning and sound clinical decision making processes and strategies essential for safe, evidence-based and competent nursing practice in medical/surgical settings
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Assignment: Patient Requiring Hospitalization
Assignment: Patient Requiring Hospitalization
• Are able to focus their attention to the needs of the individual patient as the key concern of nursing practice in health care settings
• Have a developing understanding of the role and scope of practice of the registered nurse in the Australian health care context
• Are progressing towards the level of professional written communication required for nursing practice in Australia
• Are demonstrating ethical and professional practice by adhering to the University’s academic integrity standards and plagiarism policy
The format for Assessment 1 is objective, academic writing style in proper sentences and topic paragraphs under the headings below.
Note: An introduction and conclusion are not required in this assignment.
• Item 1: Clinical presentation
• Item 2: Nursing management – Adequate oxygenation
• Item 3: Nursing management – Medication management.
• Item 4: Nursing management – Rationale for prescribed treatments and nursing interventions.
• Item 5: Safe, effective nursing care
• Item 6: Health promotion
• Item 7: Culturally responsive nursing care
• References
Assignment: Patient Requiring Hospitalization
Assignment: Patient Requiring Hospitalization
Assessment 1 is to be presented:
• As a computer generated document in Word format. PDF documents will not be accepted
• 1.5 or double-spaced in either Arial, Times New Roman or Calibri font, size 11 or 12
• In clear, coherent Australian English that demonstrates progression towards the standard for written communication for professional nursing practice in Australia
• Using appropriate professional terminology and formal academic language and style
• With no acronyms and abbreviations
• With no dot points, lists, diagrams or tables
• No more that 10% over or under that stated word count
• The word counts for each items are a guide for the amount of content for each item
• Use of trade names is not acceptable. Only generic terms or names are to be used when referring to specific medications or other prescribed treatments or resources that may be used in nursing practice
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Assignment: Patient Requiring Hospitalization
Your lecturer and assignment markers will check your sources where they have concerns as to the originality of your work.
Academic Integrity: Use of current, reliable evidence for practice
Markers must be able to access ALL your sources. All resources must be accessible via CDU databases or freely available by internet search.
• All resources for NUR243 assignments must be from quality, reliable and reputable sources and must be relevant to nursing. Carefully evaluate the material you locate in nursing, medical and allied health journals or texts as it may not always address or be related to, the nursing management issue you are asked to address and/or the Australian context.
• All resources must be dated no earlier than 2006
• There must be at least 12 peer-reviewed journal articles reporting original research or formal systematic or literature reviews cited in your assignment and all must have complete and correct referencing details. Note: This includes the 3 articles for Item 2 of the assignment
• Only one textbook can be cited as a reference in the assignment and it must be a current edition.
• Relevant documents from reputable, reliable, professional websites may be used where it is appropriate to do so.
Resources that are NOT appropriate
The following are NOT appropriate resources as they cannot be considered reliable sources of information:
• Dictionaries
• Journal abstracts
• Journal articles that are not in English
• Journal articles that cannot be accessed via CDU databases or search engines
• Websites such as Wikipedia, myDr, Nurse.com, Scribd, and other nursing/health/medical blog sites
• Information from organisational intranet sites or other sites that require registration or log in to access material. This is not publicly available information.
• Consumer websites such as the Better Health Channel or consumer information from government departments or agencies
• Preview copies of books from online retailers
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Topic
Brian’s story
Brian is 65 years old and lives with his dog ‘Spider’ in a town flat on the first floor of a block of units in a government housing estate.
About a year ago Brian had to move to town from his home community because his increasing health needs could not be readily met in his community. He misses his community, the close bonds with family and friends back home and is worried about his family’s welfare in his absence.
Brian has been a smoker for 30 years. He smokes 20 cigarettes per day and has a history of recurrent chest infections, hypertension, sleep apnoea and gout. He has a persistent cough that he calls a ‘smoker’s cough’. Recently he has noticed his cough is getting worse and producing greenish coloured sputum.
Over the last few days he has been finding it increasingly difficult to walk up stairs and to look after himself. He now has to stop every few minutes to catch his breath and decided it was time to come to the Emergency Department at the hospital where you are practicing.
On your shift today, the Emergency Nurse gives you the following handover as part of Brian’s admission to the setting where you are practicing today as a registered nurse:
Brian presented to the Emergency Department because his respiratory function has been deteriorating over the last few days. After medical review, his provisional medical diagnosis is an acute chest infection exacerbating suspected chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He is being admitted for treatment and further investigation of his respiratory function.
Brian’s current medications include allopurinol, cilazipril and metoprolol and in the emergency department he has had first doses of ampicillin and a combination bronchodilator by metered dose inhaler which are to continue until review. The doctor also ordered low flow oxygen via nasal prongs, chest physio after the bronchodilator therapy and a high energy, high protein diet.
The Emergency nurse also tells you that Brian has reported he hasn’t had a shower for two days because he gets “too puffed out’ and that he is very worried about his dog ‘Spider’ who has been left locked up alone in his flat. He also is concerned that his family back in the community doesn’t know that he’s not well and had come to hospital.
Your task in Assessment 1 is to critically discuss some of the key nursing issues related to Brian’s care on your shift. Details of the specific nursing issues to address are identified on the following pages.
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Tasks
Based on Brian’s case and the information you have available, address the following seven (7) items.
Do not make up or assume information in relation to Brian’s case. Only use what you know from the case study information on the previous page.
Note: In most items Assessment 1, textbooks are not appropriate resources.
Item 1: Clinical presentation No Textbooks are to be used in this section
Brian is part of your patient allocation for your shift today. You haven’t met or seen him as yet. An important first step in the clinical reasoning process is to anticipate what you might see, hear and feel when you first meet Brian.
Using current, reliable journal articles to support your thoughts and ideas (Textbooks are not appropriate sources in this section)
• Describe what you might expect to see, hear and/or feel when you do your initial assessment of Brian AND
• Explain why you might expect to see, hear or feel these findings