Module 1 – Critical Thinking, decision making and professional development
Module 1 – Critical Thinking, decision making and professional development
As part of this module please undertake the following activity and upload your answer into your e- Portfolio. Please remember that this forms part of your assessment for this unit.
On returning from your tea break you are met by several staff members who relate the following information to you concerning your patients.
i. Mrs Chew’s intravenous (IV) infusion has tissued, her IV fluids are running behind and she has missed her 14.00 hrs IV antibiotic.
ii. Mr Smith’s visitor has fainted.
iii. One of the staff toilets has blocked and is overflowing and waste is pouring out rapidly.
iv. Mr Esposito is scheduled to leave the ward now for his cardiac catheterisation and he has still not received his preoperative medication.
v. One of the surgical consultants (VMO) is waiting to discuss a medication error that happened last week.
vi. As you are taking this handover, an elderly female post-operative patient collapses to the floor and is unconscious. She has had facial surgery.
The other RN is busy with NUM role. Staff currently available on the ward to assist you in addressing these issues include: the ward clerk, an Enrolled Nurse who is currently undertaking her IV cannulation certificate but is not yet competent, and an AIN.
ACTIVITY
Using the above scenario:
1: In order of priority, identify which tasks you yourself will undertake and which tasks you will delegate.
2: Document your rationales in detail.
Module 2 – Collaborative and Therapeutic Practice This module requires you to consider your communication with various members of the multidisciplinary team using case studies and scenarios provided.
Your mandatory assessment requirements for module one include
1. Complete Activity 2 and upload your answers onto your e-Portfolio.
2. Choose one case study and upload your answers onto your e-Portfolio.
ACTIVITY 2
Reading:
The “MND Australia Fact Sheet on Multidisciplinary Teams” outlines professional groups who could make up a multidisciplinary health care team for a patient with motor neurone disease (MND).
Please read this fact sheet, answer the following questions, and upload your answers on your e-Portfolio on LEO. This forms part of your assessment for this unit.
1. Identify factors that determine which healthcare professionals are required to be involved in a health care team?
2. Who should lead the health care team?
3. Who is the most important member of the health care team?
CASE STUDY 1
Grant Thompson was a fit 37 year old man, a father of two young children and married for 14 years to Georgina. Grant was a truck driver who was involved in an MVA 6 months ago and suffered extensive injuries to his leg and a mild head injury. His recovery has been slow and he relies heavily on the use of a wheelchair but can now walk for short distances with the aid of a walker. Georgina wants Grant to come home and rehabilitate there. She has made some modifications to their home, ramps put in, handrails in the bathroom and toilet.
