1. Provide an overview of the patient: ● Briefly outline their current condition and include some basic pathophysiology. ● Discuss other relevant medical history, social environmental and family...

1. Provide an overview of the patient: ● Briefly outline their current condition and include some basic pathophysiology. ● Discuss other relevant medical history, social environmental and family situation. ● Identify and discuss risk factors (in other words what might go wrong to cause a respiratory infection and why). ● Use scholarly literature to support your discussion.
2. Comprehensive assessment ● Discuss 2 areas of the systematic assessments relevant to the client and their associated condition.  ● Include in your discussion 2 risk assessments that may be relevant for this client, including why they were chosen. ● Refer also to culture, ethnicity, family and the inter-professional team. ● Use scholarly literature to support your discussion.
3. Plan nursing care based on your assessments of the patient ● Discuss 2 specific strategies to meet the client’s needs identified in the assessment. ● From your analysis of the literature, propose and justify a plan to prevent a postoperative respiratory infection in this client. (i.e., make a case for what is best practice based on your reading, and provide supporting evidence). ● Compare and contrast differing views that you found in the literature and construct an argument for what you think is best practice (i.e., evidence-based) in this particular scenario. ● Use scholarly literature to support your discussion (i.e., journal articles and contemporary sources).
4. Evaluationof care ● Discuss any inter-professional collaboration that may be required to manage the patient whilst in hospital or at home. ● In your own words, and using reflective practice, discuss strategies to evaluate the plan of care.