Apply and integrate knowledge of the key NMBA Registered
Nurse Standards for Nursing Practice, National Safety and
Quality Health Service Standards, and National Health Priorities
to enable effective clinical decision making, planning and action
in a range of situations that reflect the diversity of contemporary
health care settings and challenges.
2. Apply knowledge of anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology
to support evidence-based decisions for planning and action in
a range of clinical situations.
3. Demonstrate clinical reasoning and clinical decision making in
line with safe and quality person-centred care across the
lifespan.
4. Apply knowledge and skills to communicatThis assessment task must:
? Use QUT APA referencing for citing academic literature
? Assignment cover sheet must be included as the first page of
your document. Then continue using this word document on
page 2 to write the rest of your assessment.

Assignment:NMBA Registered Nurse Standards

Assignment:NMBA Registered Nurse Standards
? Question 1: Formal academic sentence structure with in text
referencing (approx. 600-700 words)
? Question 2: Use the ISBAR acronym (approx. 300-400 words)
? Be submitted in electronic format as a single Abode Acrobat
PDF document via TurnitinYou will engage in a face-to-face clinical simulation scenario based
on interprofessional teamwork. This scenario will require that you
use a collaborative approach to respond to the problems and
challenges of the given situation. You will watch videos andcomplete pre-reading before the session. After the session, you will
undertake critical analysis and evaluation of a particular aspect of
the simulation.1. Review the Mr Harry Bright case study including the videos that
set the context, the simulation pre-reading and the patient
related documentation available in your Blackboard site under
Week 4 Clinical Simulation and Assessment Task 1.
2. Review the knowledge and skills relating to:
a. Nursing Care implications: Coronary Artery Disease,
Angioplasty (PTCI), Chest Pain, Bleeding and/or haematoma.
b. Processes for patient assessment
c. ISBAR framework for effective communication
d. Vital sign monitoring
e. IVT and infusion management
f. BGL monitoring
g. Clinical reasoning and decision-making.
3. View the Clinical Simulation Learning Experience video.
4. Participate in the Clinical Simulation and debrief.
5. Reflect on your clinical simulation experience and write your
response to the following two questions:
Question 1: (approx. 600-700 words)
Assessment is a key component of nursing practice, required
for planning and provision of patient and family centred care.
The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) in the
national competency standard for registered nurses states that,
The registered nurse assesses, plans, implements and
evaluates nursing care in collaboration with individuals and the
multidisciplinary health care team so as to achieve goals and
health outcomes.
The simulation scenario involved Mr Bright who had just
undergone an angioplasty. A potential problem related to this
procedure includes impaired tissue perfusion related to
haematoma formation or bleeding.
You are required to find five (5) contemporary, valid research
journal articles (no older than 7 years) relating to the care of the
patient undergoing angioplasty. Read the articles focusing on
the assessment elements of care required post procedure.
(Dont forget to link your assessment reasoning to anatomy and
physiology and pathophysiology).
? Reflecting on the simulation, you are required to identify
CORRECT nursing assessment performed on Mr Bright
relating to the problem stated above. Justify your discussion
using evidence from your researched articles.Reflecting on the simulation, you are now required to
identify those elements of nursing assessment that were
NOT performed on Mr Bright relating to the problem stated
above. Justify your discussion using evidence from your
researched articles.
Question 2: (approx. 300-400 words)
National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards for
Clinical Handover recommend that communication of patient
information should be conducted in a standardised format
using a structured process in order to transfer relevant patient
information.
In the simulation, ISBAR was the structured format used to
communicate patient information.
? Reflect on the simulation at the point in time when Mr
Bright complained of chest pain. Using the ISBAR format,
dot point your structured verbal handover to the doctor
advising of the patients chest pain. (You will need to access
the patients clinical documentation available on Blackboard
to complete all areas of ISBAR). As chest pain is an
emergency situation, the information provided in ISBAR
needs to be concise.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.

 

ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CLASS

Discussion Questions (DQ)

Initial responses to the DQ should address all components of the questions asked, include a minimum of one scholarly source, and be at least 250 words.
Successful responses are substantive (i.e., add something new to the discussion, engage others in the discussion, well-developed idea) and include at least one scholarly source.
One or two sentence responses, simple statements of agreement or “good post,” and responses that are off-topic will not count as substantive. Substantive responses should be at least 150 words.
I encourage you to incorporate the readings from the week (as applicable) into your responses.
Weekly Participation

Your initial responses to the mandatory DQ do not count toward participation and are graded separately.
In addition to the DQ responses, you must post at least one reply to peers (or me) on three separate days, for a total of three replies.
Participation posts do not require a scholarly source/citation (unless you cite someone else’s work).
Part of your weekly participation includes viewing the weekly announcement and attesting to watching it in the comments. These announcements are made to ensure you understand everything that is due during the week.
APA Format and Writing Quality

Familiarize yourself with APA format and practice using it correctly. It is used for most writing assignments for your degree. Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for APA paper templates, citation examples, tips, etc. Points will be deducted for poor use of APA format or absence of APA format (if required).
Cite all sources of information! When in doubt, cite the source. Paraphrasing also requires a citation.
I highly recommend using the APA Publication Manual, 6th edition.
Use of Direct Quotes

I discourage overutilization of direct quotes in DQs and assignments at the Masters’ level and deduct points accordingly.
As Masters’ level students, it is important that you be able to critically analyze and interpret information from journal articles and other resources. Simply restating someone else’s words does not demonstrate an understanding of the content or critical analysis of the content.
It is best to paraphrase content and cite your source.
LopesWrite Policy

For assignments that need to be submitted to LopesWrite, please be sure you have received your report and Similarity Index (SI) percentage BEFORE you do a “final submit” to me.
Once you have received your report, please review it. This report will show you grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors that can easily be fixed. Take the extra few minutes to review instead of getting counted off for these mistakes.
Review your similarities. Did you forget to cite something? Did you not paraphrase well enough? Is your paper made up of someone else’s thoughts more than your own?
Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for tips on improving your paper and SI score.
Late Policy

The university’s policy on late assignments is 10% penalty PER DAY LATE. This also applies to late DQ replies.
Please communicate with me if you anticipate having to submit an assignment late. I am happy to be flexible, with advance notice. We may be able to work out an extension based on extenuating circumstances.
If you do not communicate with me before submitting an assignment late, the GCU late policy will be in effect.
I do not accept assignments that are two or more weeks late unless we have worked out an extension.
As per policy, no assignments are accepted after the last day of class. Any assignment submitted after midnight on the last day of class will not be accepted for grading.
Communication

Communication is so very important. There are multiple ways to communicate with me:
Questions to Instructor Forum: This is a great place to ask course content or assignment questions. If you have a question, there is a good chance one of your peers does as well. This is a public forum for the class.
Individual Forum: This is a private forum to ask me questions or send me messages. This will be checked at least once every 24 hours.