Value:50%
Length:1,800 words
TASK
You are the registered nurse caring for a patient on their return to the hospital ward following surgery. You will be provided with the clinical scenario on the Interact2 site for this subject. Apply the clinical reasoning cycle to this scenario at the point in time in which you have assumed nursing care of the patient, to
establishone
priority
goal of care. Use the headings of the clinical reasoning cycle to guide your thinking.
The following book chapter will guide you through each phase of the clinical reasoning cycle. It can be accessed via your subject Interact2 site.
Levett-Jones, T. (2018). Clinical reasoning: what it is and why it matters. In T. Levett-Jones (Ed.),Clinical reasoning: learning to think like a nurse(2nd ed., pp. 2-13). Pearson Australia.
For this purpose of this assessment, not all phases of the clinical reasoning cycle need to be responded to. The phases of the cycle that you need to discuss and their suggested word count are:
Phase 2- Collect information (300 words).
Use a systematic assessment tool (e.g. Head-to-Toe, A2K or Primary/Secondary Survey) to collect all relevant objective and subjective data in the scenario.
Phase 3- Process information (500 words)
Phase 4- Identify problems/ issues (300 words)
Phase 5- Establish goal of care (300 words).
For the purpose of this assessment, identify and discuss oneprioritygoal only, using the SMART goal format. For more information about SMART goals, see:
Doran, G. T. (1981).
There's a SMART Way to Write Management's Goals and Objectives.Management Review, 70, 35-36. If you don’t use you will not receive any marks for phase 2
Phase 8- Reflection (400 words)
It is not a place to write what you liked and didn’t like about the assessment. It is where you document your learning and how it implies to your current or future nursing practises. Talk about you light bulk moments, ‘oh yeah I didn’t know a low blood pressure meant this or could mean this’ Thinking about the bigger picture, having light bulk moments and looking at history and tying it all together but it is all being tied together being guided by clinical reasoning cycle process and linking that to why this part I so important.