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Assignment: Ensuring and Assessing the Effectiveness of Communication

I. Patient Centered Care

1. How can you ensure and assess the effectiveness of communication with the patient and family?

2. How can you integrate your patient's preferences/values as you coordinate your plan of care or provide any needed education?

3. How can you ensure that your patient is an active partner while under your care and promote self-care once they are discharged?

II. Teamwork & Collaboration

1. What would you do if you were not comfortable performing any new skill that was required to take care of this patient?

III. Evidence Based Practice

1. As a new nurse, what resources could you utilize to provide current, evidence based and individualized care planning based on the needs of this patient?

IV. Safety/Quality Improvement

1. What would you as the nurse do if you almost gave the wrong dose of one of the ordered medications because of a similarity in the label provided by the pharmacy to another drug?

V. Informatics

1. What medical electronic databases are available in your clinical setting that would be a resource if needed to obtain needed information on a medication you have not given before or an illness/surgery you have never seen before?