Answer To: 2000 word written assignment The final written assessment measures application of knowledge relating...
Soumi answered on May 01 2021
Running Head: NURSING 1
NURSING 11
NURSING
Table of Contents
Section 1: Self Reflection 3
Section 2: Clinical Question 4
2.3 4
Section 3: Prioritisation 5
Section 4: Professional 7
4.2 7
References 10
Section 1: Self Reflection
Nursing is a noble profession. It is a backbone of healthcare industry as after doctors, nurses play main role in taking care of patients or make decisions in the time of crisis like sudden deterioration of health of patient. The graduate nurse program offered by the Western Sydney University allows the people to get learning along with the professional experience. The course offered three years full time course. This course is also available online but the requirement for online are different from full time. Online course is completed in twelve trimesters (Western Sydney University, 2019).
The admission criteria include student to comply with NSW ministry of health special requirement for clinical practicum, which includes criminal record clearance card, verification of immunisation, NSW health code of conduct signed, and student needs to complete a working with children check leading to issuance of clearance number under category of volunteer. Qualification of course needed 240 credit points. On successful completion of credit point, degree in nursing is awarded. The program includes additional core unit and elective unit to increase the knowledge of the students. The course includes professional practice experience and simulation. In the beginning of course, stress is given on the simulation so that every student is well aware of his or her role as a nurse. In the later stages, more hours are involved in clinical practices (Western Sydney University, 2019).
All my life I wanted to contribute to the society and work in improving the quality of health of people of my community. The course provides me opportunity to contribute in society by increasing the awareness of health issues. I can provide care to the elderly or differently abled people of the community. The learning outcome of this course is to produce highly skilled nurses capable of handling crisis. My skills of pressure handling, time management along with the skills developed during my course study will allow me to become an asset to the healthcare industry.
Section 2: Clinical Question
2.3
The scenario selected is that I am taking care of the male patient admitted to the hospital with seizures for investigation. This means the reason for the seizures are unknown and investigation must be done to identify the cause. When I reached the bathroom, patient was lying on the floor. This means patient has undergone seizure and fall down on the floor. Falling on floor may be responsible for unconsciousness of the patient. There can be series of more than one seizure, which keep the patient unconscious.
As suggested by Fisher et al. (2017), seizures are sudden uncontrollable electrical disturbance in the brain. It can change the behavior, feelings, emotions and level of consciousness. Type of seizure depends upon its severity. Although, many times cause of seizure is not known, but it can be symptom of other diseases such as infection, injury, meningitis and stroke. Normally, seizure occurs for few seconds, but when its duration is more than one minute, then immediate action is needed. As noted by Mashour and Hudetz (2018), unconsciousness occurs when there is lack of flow of blood or oxygen in brain, which result in collapsing.
The first logical step in this scenario is to check the pulse and breathing of the patient. As suggested by Massey, Sowers, Dlouhy and Richerson (2014), in some cases, breathing of patient does not return during epileptic seizures or when seizure remains for more than two minutes due to tightening of the chest muscles. If patient is not breathing, he was given immediately CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) to bring back breathing and pulse. If the patient is breathing, then he should be turn upside down, so that face lies towards the floor. This prevents the saliva to block the air passage and patient can breathe without struggle (Podmore, Vitale, Crowe and Vaska, 2015).
After making sure of proper breathing, dangerous things, which can hurt the patients, if lying beside him, are removed. This will prevent patient to fall for any injury while moving arms or legs when regains consciousness. Then, help is called out so that patient can be taken out of the bathroom to further assess the injury they may had occurred when patient fall down on floor. During transfer, I make sure that if any seizure occurs, then patient must not be controlled, as it is involuntary action.
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