Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care & Parker Case Study – Nursing Assignment Help

Assignment Task

ASSESSMENT 
In this written assessment, students will formulate a plan of care attributed to a patient scenario using the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care. This will allow the students to demonstrate their understanding of the evidence-based health care practices, coordination of patient care to improve patient outcomes and associated pathophysiology, development of patient-centred goals, and interventions of care. This will, in turn, enable students to be clinically competent in nursing practice.
ASSESSMENT OVERVIEW
This is an individual assessment task based on a patient clinical scenario where students are expected to use clinical reasoning and critical thinking to apply the evidence-based nursing practice to develop a plan of patient-centred care.
PURPOSE

• Apply evidence-based nursing practice using national standards with an understanding of pathophysiological concepts to provide patient-centred care.
• Learn to think like a nurse to assess, plan, implement and evaluate the treatment and management of patients with acute and chronic conditions.
• Develop clinical reasoning, critical thinking, and critical decision-making skills which are required for the provision of culturally sensitive quality patient care.
• Through national standards learn competent levels of patient care in each phase (admission, discharge) of the nursing process.
• Develop an understanding of how to utilise national standards for a given case scenario to develop clinical proficiency and safety.

 LEARNING OUTCOMES
LO1: Integrate and corroborate evidence-based knowledge and legal and ethical considerations when making clinical decisions in relation to person-centred care scenarios across the lifespan with a range of deteriorating complex illnesses/conditions;
LO 3: Exemplify an interprofessional and interprofessional person-centred communication approach in comprehensive evidence-based assessment, and nursing interventions through simulated scenarios;
LO 5: Exemplify the use of remote and in-person digital health approaches in communications to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, other cultures, and people of diversity when delivering complex nursing interventions. 
ASSESSMENT DETAILS
The written assessment task is related to a case scenario that will be provided to students in week 1. The context of the scenario is based on Comprehensive patient care: Pressure injury covered in the first two weeks of the Block. 
The assessment piece should be developed using the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care standard. Evidence-based practice is applied to develop patient-centred care interventions using critical thinking and clinical reasoning to explore the patient’s history, presenting problems, and the related pathophysiological processes. With adherence to cultural awareness, the nursing standards, code of conduct, code of ethics, and legalities, a holistic care plan is developed by setting specific patient-centred goals and formulating care interventions.This is an academic assignment; therefore, academic standards inclusive of grammar, sentence structure, paraphrasing, and APA 7th edition referencing for both in-text citations and referencing list are required.
 

Case Study:
Mrs. Parker is a 61-year-old Aboriginal female. She has been admitted following a two-day history of chest pain associated with a purulent cough. The chest pain was sharp in nature, localised to the right lower thoracic region, and worse on deep inspiration. She has a past medical history of COPD, with a recent worsening of cough with viscous sputum and greener in colour, and she has difficulty breathing. Mrs. Parker has been trying some home remedies to help with her cough. However, the night she started having fever with chills and rigours she was brought to Emergency Department by her son. Mrs Parker was diagnosed with acute exacerbation of COPD secondary to pneumonia, leading to sepsis and impending septic shock. Mrs Parker lives with her husband; she and her husband like to help out their son in his poultry farm at least thrice a week. She is obese with a BMI of 32 and has a history of osteoarthritis, hypertension, and Type 2 diabetes.  It is Day 3 of Mrs Parker’s hospital admission. She is in a medical ward continuing her IV antibiotics. She is afebrile now and rates the pain as 1/10, and her breathing has improved with RR 20 breaths/minute, with Sao2 96% on RA. Her appetite is still poor, feels weak and unsteady on her feet.   After receiving a handover for the morning shift, you conduct a head-to-toe assessment on Mrs Parker. She tells you that she has had her head elevated all night, was quite sweaty, and is now experiencing some pain in her lower back.  With assistance from your preceptor RN, you turn her to her side to conduct a skin assessment of her back. You observe that her skin is moist with sweat, and you also notice erythema on the sacrum with a shallow open ulcer with a red wound bed.