Reference no: EM132591257
NSB236 Integrated Nursing Practice - Queensland University of Technology
ASSESSMENT TASK : The deteriorating patient
Learning outcome 1: Consolidate knowledge of key NMBA Registered Nurse Standards for Practice, National Safety and Quality Health Services Standards, and National Health Priorities to enable effective decision planning and action in a range of complex clinical situations across the lifespan.
Learning outcome 2. Apply knowledge of anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology to support evidence-based decision making associated with planning and action.
Learning outcome 3. Demonstrate structured decision making and clinical reasoning to review a range of health situations, synthesise evidence and data, determine priorities and formulate plans of care and interventions in line with timeframes and agreed goals
Case Study: The Deteriorating Patient
Task description: For this essay you are required to select ONE (1) case scenario related to the clinical deterioration of a patient:
Option 1: Acute Kidney Injury
Option 2: Cardiogenic Shock
The assessment tasks requires you to:
1. Review The National Safety and Quality Health (NSQH) Standards; Recognising and Responding to Acute Deterioration.
Recognising clinical deterioration is consider as a critical component to providing quality clinical care. The NSQH identifies eight factors that contribute to a failure to recognise and responding to clinical deterioration, and these include:
• Not monitoring physiological observations consistently, or not understanding changes in physiological observations
• Knowledge deficit of signs and symptoms that could signal deterioration
• Limited of awareness of the potential for a person's mental state to deteriorate
• Knowledge deficit of delirium, and the benefits of early recognition and treatment
• Knowledge deficit of formal systems for responding to deterioration
• Knowledge deficit of skills to manage patients who are deteriorating
• Failure to communicate clinical concerns, including in handover situations
• Attributing physical or mental symptoms to an existing condition, such as dementia or a mental health condition.
Identify one (1) factor that is relevant to your chosen case study and;
1a. Using evidence beyond the NSQH standard, discuss why failure to recognise and respond to clinical deterioration occurs, along with identifying contributing factors within the clinical environment that may lead to or result in failure to recognise or respond to clinical deterioration.
1b. Identify an evidence-based approach that would aid in reducing incidences of failure to recognise and respond to clinical deterioration for future delivery of clinical care.
2. From the chosen case study identify and discuss two (2) signs or symptoms of clinical deterioration associated with the pathophysiology of the patients' presenting problem.
3. Following on from your discussion, and related to the patients deterioration, identify one (1) priority problem associated with the patient's clinical presentation, and through the application of contemporary research provide a justification as to why the problem is a clinical priority within the case.
4. Discuss two (2) evidence based clinical interventions to address the priority problem and how to evaluate the efficacy of these interventions.
In order to undertake this essay, you will need to research the topic using current and relevant peer reviewed literature, in conjunction with reviewing:
• The lecture, tutorial and support materials associated with the relevant topic located on blackboard.
• Review the Quality Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care; Standard: Recognising and Responding to Acute Deterioration
• Your knowledge and understanding related to:
1. The physiology and pathophysiology of the primary diagnosis and associated clinical data identified within the chosen case study;
2. The physiological assessments relevant to the features within the case study.
Attachment:- Integrated Nursing Practice.rar