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CNA772 Interpreting Patient Deterioration Assignment - School of Nursing - University of Tasmania, Australia
Intended Learning Outcomes - On completion of this unit, you will be able to:
1. Critically analyse and describe the applied pathophysiology as related to an acutely ill patient with a condition that results in alterations or failure of the cardiac, respiratory or haemodynamic system;
2. Evaluate and discuss therapeutic medical and nursing management of an acutely ill patient that enables decision making;
3. Demonstrate the ability to apply analytical skills to the data gained from nursing assessment, monitoring and laboratory findings to evaluate therapeutic interventions.
Assessment task - Essay
Topic -Nursing interventions on Septic Shock
Task Description - This assessment task enables you to deeply engage with the literature around the management of an acutely ill patient. You must select a patient for the case study who has experienced either shock, acute respiratory or cardiac dysfunction; if in doubt as to your case, it will be useful to discuss your choice with your tutor prior to commencing writing. Please review the Echo360 lecture for examples of suitable cases.
Write a brief summary of the patient's current health problem, relevant history and any specific early management provided to address the primary problem prior to arriving in your ward/department if relevant. This should be sufficient to set the scene for the reader and the introduction should take up no more than one (1) to one and a half (1 ½) pages.
At all times you must maintain patient confidentiality by assigning the person a pseudonym and not disclosing personal identifying information. Please note that no patient details are required, and it is your interpretation of the management of the patient's physiological status that is examined. There is no need to include patient's test results unless significant to the case.
Please do not include diagrams, pictures or tables in the essay, it is your role to interpret the information, not reproduce data. Ethics approval from health care institutions are not required as you are not providing any identifying information, nor patient specifics.
To facilitate demonstrating depth of knowledge related to acutely ill patients, critically analyse the related health problem (shock, or acute respiratory or cardiac dysfunction) using evidence-based findings, limit your paper to an explanation of the physiology underlying the problem and the management provided. The management should be restricted to the key elements used to address the problem and should be linked back to the altered physiology.
Include a conclusion to the paper that draws the key elements together. Use a minimum of 10 scholarly references to support your discussion themes ensuring that you correctly reference your work. You must clearly demonstrate the related pathophysiology in the body of your paper. References in the main should be no more than five years since publication.
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