Week 6 CAP203 Q&A and Assessment 2 Help by Melissa Singletary

Working in the ED

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What is the priority care for this patient?

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What is the situation? - top priority
What risks are associated with the patient's situation?
What other factors could be contributing to my patient's situation?
- Look for signs and symptoms.
- What is the patient's medical/surgical history?
What medications/alcohol/substances (drugs) that the patient takes could be impacting the situation?

Secondarily, prioritise the patient's medical and surgical history into the patient's plan of care

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Cardiac
Respiratory
Peripheral Circulation
Diabetes
Liver/Kidney Disease
Skin Integrity/Wounds

Confusion and Delirium

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What caused the patient to be confused and forgetful?

What is the difference between confusion and delirium?
What are the signs and symptoms?
What assessment will I complete based on the symptoms?

ChatGpt and Google - Why should I avoid using these resources for my assessment answers?

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Answers do not come from a nursing context and are not evidence-based.
Nursing course textbooks provide the best answers.
You cannot verify if ChatGPT or Google is correct.

What is your scope of practice as a medical/ surgical nurse?

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Legal and Ethical Concerns

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Must use an Australian government website or Australian book on legal and ethical issues!

What assessments were wrong? Why?

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What patient problems were wrong and why?

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Nursing patient problems must be prioritised.

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#1 Based on reason for admission
Prioritise patient problems!
Medical history may impact the reason for admission, so they must be included in the care plan.
Must care for medical needs based on current home regime (give home meds) or based on medical history (for non-compliant patients)
Patients may come in with many problems, but you will only have time to deal with the priority patient problems related to admission.
You may even have to consider another patient's priority problem over another patient based on your time available.
- Example share to me by one of our educators.

Nursing Care Plans

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Risk for Infection
Risk for VTE or DVT
Risk for Fluid Imbalance
Acute Pain
Risk for a Fall
Risk of Skin Integrity
Lack of knowledge
Difficulty coping

Nicola's Patient Problems

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Critical Thinking Question #1: Nursing Prioritisation

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Critical Thinking Question #2: Nursing Prioritisation

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Australian Nursing Assessment and Documents.

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Nursing Assessments: Must fall within your scope of practice

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List out the names of healthcare professionals and include their primary role (include nursing specialty roles).

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Susan's Case Study: Apply critical thinking and develop patient problems

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Review of Susan's Story: Start at 3:48 mins to review the situation and observe behaviours and responses to the situation

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What is the situation?

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Family, Trauma, & Healing - 24 Hours in A&E - Medical Documentary: Susan sustained an open fracture of the tib/fibula. She is rushed to St. George's Hospital and requires emergent surgery.

Identify Susan's Preoperative Patient Problems and Priority of Patient Care?

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What assessments and nursing care will you provide first?

What is your top priority?

Susan's Medical History: (made up for this discussion)

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Medical History:

Bipolar
Major Depression
Diabetes Type II

Surgical History:

Knee Replacement
Grommets Bilateral Ears

Q&A Research Activity

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https://forms.office.com/r/gCM8cC7ksz

Acute Care Surgery in Geriatrics - Review these chapters: Not available in the Torrens Library

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Reference: Petrone, P., & Brathwaite, C. E. M. (2023). Acute care surgery in geriatric patients. Springer Nature.

Chapter 14: Discussing Goals of Care in the Geriatric Acute Care Surgery Patient - pages 115 - 1130
Chapter 26: Geriatric Hip Fractures: pages 227 - 234
Chapter 39: Perioperative Management of Geriatric Patients - pages 355 - 362
Chapter 40: Surgical Risk Assessment in the Elderly - pages 363 - 370
Chapter 56: Nursing Considerations in Management of Geriatric Patients - pages 533 - 546
Chapter 59: Implementing Nursing Care Plans - pages 561 - 570

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-30651-8

Use your CAP203 Resources: Located in the 'Discussions' section of MyLearn.

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Write your assessment using the CAP203 textbooks as references. Paraphrase the citation to support your work.

Use page numbers with the in-text citations.
If you are unsure about how to do this, please contact the library and/or Torrens Academic Services.
Students who do not include page numbers will be reported to the Academic Integrity Office.

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All your CAP203 course textbooks have page numbers when you use the ClinicalKey Student Nursing, Torrens Library.

You'll need to log in via your institution.
Find the textbook via a search OR use the Key Text for Multiple Modules Textbook Links in MyLearn.
Then, open up the textbook in your Bookshelf.

View in Bookshelf

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MyLearn Reading List: Key Texts for Multiple Modules

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Assessment 2 Instructions & Writing Tips

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Assessment 2 APA 7th Edition Template

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Save time and use the template.

When using a table, formatting the paper can be challenging.

You will need to download the template.