Nurse’s role in facilitating safe, Quality outcomes for patient-centered care

1. Introduce the background of the patient

• Health history
• Economic and social history
• Spiritual and cultural considerations
• Family members and relationships
• Community of residence

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1. Medical diagnoses

• Discuss pathophysiology of disease or symptoms with focus on current health problem(s)
• Analyze the risk factors and patient’s assessment findings that relate to the pathophysiology or disease conditions

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1. Patient assessment

• Discuss physical assessment findings including vital signs and allergies
• Evaluate the medications including the reasons for patient taking each one.
• Evaluate laboratory and diagnostic tests relevant to care of the patient
• Emphasis should be on the analysis of assessment data to care for patient

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1. Analyze the case and progress toward outcomes using the nursing process framework

• Identify one priority diagnosis and two other nursing diagnoses and provide brief plan of care with rationales and interventions that are realistic and individualized to patient.
• Evaluate the care provided to the patient and the patient’s achievement of care outcomes

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1. Examine how a systems approach to collaboration with other members of the interdisciplinary team contributed to safe patient care.

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1. Evaluate discharge planning goals or other long term planning goals for the patient.

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1. Discuss how the nurse provided or could have provided for the spiritual and cultural needs of the patient.

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1. Evaluate one or more of the agency specific policies and the impact on the provision of care for this patient.

• Was policy a barrier or facilitator for care?
• How does nursing leadership advocate for safe, quality care?

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1. Analyze ethical and legal standards that impacted the care of the patient and family. Possible discussion topics include: ethical standards for professional nursing practice, end-of-life decisions and advanced directives, respect for ethical rights of patients (autonomy, beneficence, etc.)

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1. Analyze ethical and legal standards that impacted the care of the patient and family. Possible discussion topics include: ethical standards for professional nursing practice, end-of-life decisions and advanced directives, respect for ethical rights of patients (autonomy, beneficence, etc.)Reflect on additional learning that you need to enhance your care of a similar patient care situation in the future.

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1. Scholarly presentation of work

• Uses textbooks and recent journal articles to support discussion points
• APA format for style, grammar, in-text citations, and references
• Absence of spelling errors

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