Assessment task 1: Exploring Environmental Considerations when Nursing Critically Ill People Intent: For critically ill people and their families, the critical care environment in the Emergency...

Assessment task 1: Exploring Environmental Considerations when Nursing Critically Ill People Intent: For critically ill people and their families, the critical care environment in the Emergency Department or Intensive Care Unit is often foreign and confronting. Together with the illness or injury which led to admission, treatment, medication, hospital routines may affect homeostatic body function and control. These external stressors have the potential to affect the person physically, psychologically, socially, culturally and spiritually in a way which may ultimately compromise healing and recovery. It is imperative that while caring for people who are critically ill, that nurses consider the impact of the environment on the person’s illness, healing, and recovery. An awareness of how the environment affects a person who is critically ill, allows nurses to initiate and incorporate nursing care to support the person through their illness by addressing environmental stressors while undergoing treatment in the critical care setting. Groupwork: Individual Weight: 80% Task: For this assignment, choose ONE of the following, and consider how the environmental factors related to the either the Emergency Department or Intensive Care Unit contribute to a critically ill person’s: Vulnerability and alterations in autonomy Alterations in communication capabilities Alterations in privacy Alterations in sleep patterns (This topic is the one I would like to choose for this essay) Explore how the environmental factors related to the Emergency Department OR the Intensive Care Unit contribute to your chosen topic, and discuss how nurses can provide holistic person centred care to minimise the impact of the environment and put the patient in the best possible condition for self-healing. In doing so, consider the environmental impact on the patient's physical, psychological, social, cultural and spiritual components of self. The assessment is to be written in essay format (third person) using scholarly academic writing skills. Discussion is expected to be well structured, reflective, analytical and well supported with current literature cited in text and in the reference list using UTS Harvard Referencing style. Introduction: No subheading. Begin with an introduction, an overview of the work telling the reader what it is they are about to read. This may be done following completion of the body so that all points mentioned in the introduction are present and in sequence with the body and align with the assessment task. Body: Be sure your work is well structured and set out in themes. Use specific subheadings that signpost discussion for the reader. Proof read prior to submission to ensure good flow of discussion throughout. Conclusion: No subheading. You may like to indicate to the reader by commencing with ‘In conclusion..’, To conclude...’etc, then write a concluding statement where you highlight what you have learned from completion of this work (do not simply describe what was discussed). Length: 2000 words (excluding subheadings, appendices and reference list) Please follow the HD guidelines