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Hi Jen

I have read through all available resources but I am finding the instructions for the action plan section unclear.

I am unsure of where to place the smart goal and the table related information (objectives, strategies, activities, resources, time, measurement).

Do we place the smart goal in the 100 words box titled "action plan", and the table related information in the or the 650 words box titled "How will you achieve this in your next placement"?

Or is the"How will you achieve this in your next placement" box for an essay style answer of that question? while the

Thank you for your time

Warm regards

Re: 4: Action plan

That is very clear and helpful. Thank you for posting this example to help us understand.

Warm regards

This is an example of a well written action -plan from a previous A grade standard paper

I hope it helps to clarify your questions

Regards

jen

2. Engages in therapeutic and professional relationships

Your Action Plan for improvement of this standard

S - In my 5 week placement in ICU

M - I will be able to effectively communicate with multi-disciplinary teams

A - This is achievable, withincreased confidence

R - This is realistic, it is something that all nurses need to do.

T - By the end of my placement (03/11/19)

In my 5 week NCR placement in ICU, I aim to be confident in effectively communicating with multi-disciplinary teams, such as doctors about my patient's conditions and care. By the end of my placement on the 03/11/2019 I will be able to effectively communicate with multi-disciplinary teams.

Word count: 98 (Max 100)

​​​​​​​Identify how you will achieve this in your next placement

Objective:

To confidently communicate effectively to multi-disciplinary teams such as doctors about patient care, to enhance my patient quality care.

Strategies:

Strategies for improvement include:

• Involving myself when my patient has multi disciplinary teams around, such as doctors, social workers, speech pathologists. Health professionals should function as a team to deliver comprehensive care that addresses as many as the patients needs as possible (NSW Government). This will enable me to engage in conversations about my patients and involve myself to act within the patients health care team.

• Communicating with the multi disciplinary professionals after they have seen my patient. By communicating with other health professionals involved in my patients care, after they have seen the patient, I will be able to improve my care towards the patient. I will know what is going on, what is planned, if anything has changed in the patients care plan. I will also be able to clarify anything that the doctor or health professional has said, if my patient does not understand. Epstein (2014), explains that enhanced communication between different levels of health care professionals, can reduce mortality and also improve patient quality care, along with health care professional satisfaction.

• Getting to know my patients, their medical history and current condition, so I know what to discuss with multi disciplinary teams. By reading through my patients notes, I will be able to find out what type of care my patient requires. I will then be able to communicate any concerns I have with the patients doctor, this will in turn help enhance the patient care in which I provide.​​​​​​​

• Ensure I know who my patients doctor is along with any other multi disciplinary team they are involved with. Knowing who the doctor is, is extremely important so I know who to call or page if my patient suddenly deteriorates or if there is an emergency.

Activities:

• I will need to attend and participate in patient handovers, to gain an understanding on my patients conditions, in which I can communicate my understandings or concernsto the multi disciplinary team.


• Page the patients doctor when needed, for example if my patient requiresa Standard Clinical Review due to one of their vital signs being out of parameter I would page their doctor and communicate the issue. Ghiyasvandian, Zakerimoghadam and Peyravi (2015),states by professionally communicating in a clinical setting, health professionals build relationships with each other and become more confident in exchanging knowledge and making clinical decisions about patient care.


• Include myself when the Doctor or other health professionals are with the patient. When the patients doctor is doing the rounds to their patients, I will aim to include myself in the room if allowed.


• Read through patient notes and history. This will allow me to gain an understanding on my patients condition so I am able to voice any concerns I have to the multi disciplinary team.

Resources:

• Patientfiles including current notes and medical history


• The computer to access the hospital paging resources


• Patient notes to find out their doctors name.

Timeline:

• In my 5 week NCR placement from the 30th of September to the 3rd of November.

Measure of Success:

• My interim and final assessments on PebblePad completed by my preceptor will state that I can effectively communicate with multi disciplinary teams. I will also achieve a score on the ANSAT toolof at least a 4 for this standard


• I will feel confident in communicating with multi disciplinary teams such as doctors, about my patients care.

Word count: 584 (Max 650)

References

Epstein, N. E. (2014). Multidisciplinary in hospital teams improve patient outcome :A review.International Journal of Neurosurgery and Neurosciences, 5(7), 295-303. doi: 10.4103/2152-7806.139612

Ghiyasvandian, S.,Zakerimoghadam., M &Peyravi, H. (2015) Nurse as a facilitator to professional communication: A qualitative study.Global Journal of Health Science, 7(2), 294-303. doi: 10.5539/gjhs.v7n2p294
Thank you so much for your quick response but unfortunately, that doesn't answer my question, sorry.
My question was what to place in the 3 boxes.

If we place the action plan with information:objectives, strategies, activities, resources, time, measurementin theaction plan 100 words max box,what do we place in the"Identify how will you achieve this in your next placement"box?
I asked how you would like us to answer the"Identify how will you achieve this in your next placement"box and whether you'd like an essay style answer of that question?
If so, the action plan box is 100 words and I think we would take more than that to cover theobjectives, strategies, activities, resources, time & measurement.Thats why it appears as though we place out smart goal of 1-2 sentences in the action plan box and theobjectives, strategies, activities, resources, time & measurementanswer in the"Identify how will you achieve this in your next placement"box as its 650 words.
Apologies for not understanding, I just need more clarification.
Thank you for your time

In section fouraction planthere are three distinct sections for your action plans.

If you are unable to write within these I will follow up for you.

I would steer away from using a table but simply write under headings

Your first chosen standard

Select one of the standards of practice you have identified for improvement

Your Action Plan for improvement of this standard

Word count: 0 (Max 100)

​​​​​​​Identify how you will achieve this in your next placement

Word count: 0 (Max 650)

References

Hope this helps

Practice improvement portfolio

I have a question regarding the mapping template.

I understand we are required to write a summary that includes all clinical cues. However, are we supposed to tick the score we got for each cue, or the standard as a whole? I thought it was each, however, the sample template does not do this.

Thanks!

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TEACHE

You can just average the scores you received for the individual aspects of the standard and discuss your overall score for the standard or you can select aspects of the standard to focus on.

This might be the areas where you performed less well

Regards

Thank you for providing an example of a reflection in section 2. I have compared that to the examples provided on the library website. The example provided in the assignment matches a superficial reflection. We are instructed to do a deep reflection for each standard but I am finding it challenging to do a deep reflection in such little word count. Could you please provide an 'A' example of a deep reflection for one of the standards in section 2?

Thank you in advance.

Kind regards,

STUDENT
Hi

I have read through all available resources but I am finding the instructions for the action plan section unclear.

I am unsure of where to place the smart goal and the table related information (objectives, strategies, activities, resources, time, measurement).

Do we place the smart goal in the 100 words box titled "action plan", and the table related information in the or the 650 words box titled "How will you achieve this in your next placement"?

Or is the"How will you achieve this in your next placement" box for an essay style answer of that question? while the

Thank you for your time

Warm regards

Re: Reflection example

by Thursday, 3 September 2020, 4:55 PM

Please see three examples of deeper reflection in the attached documents

Kind regards

Re: Reflection example

byTeacher Thursday, 3 September 2020, 4:55 PM

Hi

Thank you for providing an example of a reflection in section 2. I have compared that to the examples provided on the library website. The example provided in the assignment matches a superficial reflection. We are instructed to do a deep reflection for each standard but I am finding it challenging to do a deep reflection in such little word count. Could you please provide an 'A' example of a deep reflection for one of the standards in section 2?

Thank you in advance.

Kind regards,

Please see three examples of deeper reflection in the attached documents

Kind regards

Mapping template 2.docx



Mapping template 3.docx



Mappting template 1.docx