Learning outcome/s being assessed:
- Apply the fundamentals of care framework (evidence-based nursing framework) and its application to nursing relationships.
- Apply principles of patient personal safety, including physical, psychosocial and environment safety for themselves and others.
Purpose:
This clinical case exploration is focused on the importance of patient safety and how it is positioned within the Fundamentals of Care Framework.
“It is well established that observable physiological and clinical abnormalities often come before serious adverse events such as unexpected death and cardiac arrest. Failures to recognise and respond to such abnormalities are preventable errors that can have devastating consequences for patients, families, whānau and clinicians” (Health Quality and Safety Commission, 2017, p. 1).
Patients can be kept safe through effective nursing care including assessment, communication & culturally responsive approaches.
Instructions:
There are three parts to this:
- Using the Fundamentals of Care Framework discuss how developing a therapeutic relationship promotes patient safety. (500 words)
- Discuss the importance of baseline clinical observations (vital signs) including:
- the components of a clinical vital sign assessment and where this sits within the Fundamentals of Care framework
- indications for taking vital sign observations and
- note which physiological signs may FIRST indicate a change in physical status and why (500 words)
- Discuss nurses advocating for patient safety in regard to medication including:
the components of medication safety and where this sits within the Fundamentals of Care framework
