CLINICAL SCENARIO -

Part A - Identifying three nursing care priorities

Identify the three nursing care priorities using the first four steps of the Clinical Reasoning Cycle

1. Consider the patient - describe facts and contents. This is the first stage of the clinical reasoning cycle, the nurse begins to gain an initial impression of the client' situation. 

2. Collect cues/information - review the information, gather new information and recall knowledge; 

3. Process information - to interpret, discriminate, relate, infer, match the data and predict an outcome.

4. Identify problems/issues - synthesise all the information that has been collected and processed in order to identify the most significant patient problems or issues. You only need to identify three (3) issues for this assignment. 

Part B: Having identified all of the nursing care priorities, choose the top priority of care and then discuss using the remaining 4 steps in the Clinical Reasoning Cycle.

5. Establish goals - setting up the goal with the patient (demonstrating dignity) for the particular nursing issue. The goal should be specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and timely (SMART).

6. Take action - showing your nursing interventions/strategies with the relevant rationale(s) for each intervention.

7. Evaluate outcomes showing the expected outcomes and how you would evaluate them (objectively and subjectively). These should relate to your Goals. Think about using both objective and subjective data to evaluate the effectiveness of the nursing actions.

8. Reflection - what you have learned from this process and what you could have done differently.

Assignment Files-

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