NRS 490 Grand Canyon University COVID19 Care Planning Team Summary
NRS 490 Grand Canyon University COVID19 Care Planning Team Summary
Description
This document describes the scholarly activity elements that should be included in a five paragraph summary. You may use this resource to help guide the preparation of the Scholarly Activities assignment, due in Topic 10.
This section consists of a single paragraph that succinctly describes the scholarly activity that you attended/participated in, the target market for the activity, and the benefit of the activity to you.
This section consists of either a short narrative or a list of bullet points that concisely identifies the problems the scholarly activity is designed to solve. Educate: What is the current state of the activity topic? Explain why this is a problem, and for whom is it a problem? Inspire: What could a nurse achieve by participating in the scholarly activity? Use declarative sentences with simple words to communicate each point. Less is more.
This section consists of either a short paragraph or a list of bullet points that concisely describes the solution to a proposed practice problem that the scholarly activity addressed and how it addresses the problem outlined in the previous section.
This section consists of short paragraphs that define the opportunity that the scholarly activity is designed to capture. It is important to cover the objectives and goals that were met. How will attending/participating in this scholarly activity help you grow as a nurse? NRS 490 Grand Canyon University COVID19 Care Planning Team Summary
Program Competencies Addressed
This section consists of a list of program competencies that were addressed in this scholarly activity. Please use the list from the ISP.
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Overview
The scholarly activity, I have participated in were Nursing Council Meeting (NCM) and Care Team Conference (CTM). The NCM is schedule to meet quarterly, while CTM every week on Tuesday. The NCM reviews the Kardex for the patients in the ICU, which contains summary of patient orders, demographic information and other nursing care instructions for individual patients. The NCM team members are ICU nurses, quality manger, and Director Of Nursing (DON). The CTM is an interdisciplinary team meeting that has practitioners from health professions such as case manager, rehab director, physicians, pomologist, nurses, dietician, pharmacist, wound care nurse etc. The team meet weekly to make the future plan of care and has an established ongoing communication (e.g., a daily rounding on patients) among team members to ensure that various aspects of patients’ healthcare needs are integrated, aligned, addressed, and met in a time-efficient manner.
Problem
The Kardex holds the day to day information on the patient conditions per shift. It carries information such as patient’s mental, phycological, daily activities etc. Also, it has information on type of tube feeding, iv site and date of change, diagnoses, status of Foley catheter, fall risk, tracheostomy, ventilation, tele monitor etc. During the Kardex review, the team members reviews all information on the patient and updates the missing information. Some of the issues find out as patient fall, missing the iv site, Foley catheter, and tracheostomy care and dressing change date. Also, any missing information find on the Kardex is updated and make a note, so it can be monitor in future. The issue find is the family member is unaware of the physiological and psychological condition change or improvement in it or future discharge planning.
Solution
As all missing information reviewed, corrected, and noted, than reported to quality manger. The quality manger will look at the issue individually and research if any policy requires to change. The patient fall status and occurrence mainly focused too, and assessed based on the root cause analysis. To improve over all care for patient, continuous education on the related subject such as all types of tub care and attain the needs of high fall risk patients provided and it is mandatory to attend. The CTM meeting reviewed on the any problems related to the patients’ physiological and psychological conditions during the stay and plan the future care in order to improve the patient conditions. Also, discussed on the patient improvement, discharge planning, PT/OT activity to get the strength back for daily activities etc. In the TCM meeting the family members are involved for the particular patient and made aware of the patient day to day condition and future planning.
Opportunity
This activity added to my knowledge base on how the Kardex reviewed and its importance for all healthcare professionals to review daily changes in the patient. Also, it helps me to understand the how the policies can be change to improve the patient care and its work flow. I was able to meet the competency of profession role (Domain 1) by experiencing the collaboration of physician, nursing leaders and leaders from other disciplines in addressing issues in a wide range of health care settings (1.1) and assuming management and leadership roles in promoting patient safety and quality care (1.3) and participate in health care policy development to influence nursing practice (1.4). This scholarly activity allowed me to explore the theoretical foundations of nursing practice (Domain 2) by advancing my understanding and value the processes of critical thinking, ethical reasoning and decision making (2.3). The TCM meeting helped me to address the domain of Communications/Informatics (Domain 4) by witnessing the professional communications and collaborations between interdisciplinary health care professionals to provide safe and effective care (4.3). Overall this experience will help me begin to see the importance of my nursing position as a larger picture of health care improvement in patient outcome. NRS 490 Grand Canyon University COVID19 Care Planning Team Summary
Program Competencies Addressed
1.1, 1.3, 1.4, 2.3, 4.3
Hours
3.5 hours
