Required Uniform Assignment: Clinical Concept Map
This assignment is designed to extend the learner's use of concept mapping as a tool for clinical care planning. The nursing process continues to provide the foundation for organizing information and thought, whereas the mapping becomes the process for intentional critical thinking and clinical reasoning.
COURSE OUTCOMES This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes.
CO 1. Demonstrate the nursing process while providing basic care to individuals and families reflecting different stages of the life span in the extended care, acute care, and community- based settings (PO#1).
CO 3. Demonstrate communication skills necessary for interaction with other health team members and for providing basic nursing care to individuals and families (PO#3).
CO 4. Incorporate critical thinking skills into clinical nursing practice (PO#4).
REQUIREMENTS
Choose an individual for whom you perform nursing care in the clinical setting. After performing a complete assessment of the person, create a concept map.
You will use the nursing process to map your findings, create and prioritize nursing diagnoses, plan interventions, and evaluate outcomes of those interventions. Use at least two published nursing references (other than textbooks) to support your plan of care.
In addition to the concept map and in relationship to it, you will submit a one-page reflective paper that addresses communication and safety and infection control. Based on your clinical experience with the person for whom you provided care, you will reflect on specific elements of communication used during your interaction. Finally, you will discuss issues of safety and infection control related to the care of the person.
Refer to the grading rubric for the detailed expectations regarding content.
PREPARING THE ASSIGNMENT
To prepare the concept map, you may use any software of your choosing. Your textbooks and the Internet may offer access to simple and free concept map creation tools.