Written Assignment NUR2203 Nursing the Surgical Patient: Task overview
Assessment
Nursing the Surgical Patient
Assignment Objectives
1. Demonstrate the use of research evidence for nursing practice applied to the care of a surgical patient
2. Augment skills in clinical decision making and reasoning through synthesising and analysing information required to care for a surgical patient
3. Apply appropriate assessment, problem solving, planning, prioritising of interventions to care for the selected client scenario chosen
4. Demonstrate the nurses role in monitoring and implementing prioritised nursing interventions in response identified patient needs
5. Demonstrate the ability to communicate specific patient care issues succinctly according to scholarly writing and referencing conventions
Standard 1: Thinks critically and analyses nursing practice.
RNs use a variety of thinking strategies and the best available evidence in making decisions and providing safe, quality nursing practice within person-centred and evidence-based frameworks.
Standard 4: Comprehensively conducts assessments. RNs accurately conduct comprehensive and systematic assessments. They analyse information and data and communicate outcomes as the basis for practice.
Standard 6: Provides safe, appropriate and responsive quality nursing practice.
RNs provide and may delegate, quality and ethical goal directed actions. These are based on comprehensive and systematic assessment, and the best available evidence to achieve planned and agreed outcomes.
Standard 7: Evaluates outcomes to inform nursing practice.
RNs take responsibility for the evaluation of practice based on agreed priorities, goals, plans and outcomes and revises practice accordingly
(NMBA 2018) Registered Nurse standards of practice Retrieved from: http://www.nursingmidwiferyboard.gov.au/Codes-GuidelinesStatements/Professional-standards/registered-nurse-standards-for-practice.aspx
Length
2000 words +/-10% (including headings) (word length includes in-text referencing and excludes your reference list)
Case Study
Sarah Brown a 66 year old retired teacher has been admitted for an open right hemicolectomy. Sarah presented to her GP with a three month history of generalised abdominal pain and occasional diarrhoea. A colonoscopy found a mass in the ascending colon. Initial pathology of the biopsy showed a poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma of the ascending colon. Please refer to the following pre and post-operative assessment data to answer the assignment questions.
Pre-operative clinical data
