NRS274 - Health Challenge : Bacterial Wound Infection Post Shoulder Arthroscopy

Assignment Task

This assessment task asks students to consider the following health challenge and address the points listed below:

Health Challenge : Bacterial wound infection post shoulder arthroscopy.

If you aren’t familiar with this health challenge, split it up and look it up. Use this guide to understand the given health challenge further.

Bacteria - the type of microorganism causing the infection. (Microorganisms include bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites, but for this task, it is bacteria). It is important to know this, as the pharmacological management of infections will differ depending on the microorganism.

Infection - “Invasion of a pathogenic microorganism causing symptoms” (Craft et al., 2023).

Bacterial wound infection - A wound infection that occurred due to an invasion by the microorganism bacteria .

Post shoulder arthroscopy- The infection has occurred after the shoulder arthroscopy.

Arthroscopy - A surgical procedure to examine the interior surfaces of a joint. This can be a diagnostic procedure sometimes or if there is joint damage, then a surgical repair is performed.

This assessment task does not ask you to defin e anything. This means that we expect that you know or can find out the elements of the task and can demonstrate your knowledge by explaining them. Please try not to provide definitions in your introduction or throughout your paper, as this does not demonstrate the level of knowledge expected and will use up valuable words.

It is strongly recommended that subheadings are used to organise the paper. This is a great idea for a number of reasons, including that it allows you to clearly show the marker that you have worked to structure your work, and that you have addressed each and every part of the task.

The task asks you to:

• Explain the underlying pathophysiology that results in each of the following abnormal assessment findings in the context of bacterial wound infection post shoulder arthroscopy.

This means that you do not select which ones you would like to talk about, you need to explain the pathophysiological processes for each of the following abnormal findings. A pass answer would explain them all individually, and an HD answer would identify the interconnecting processes that result in more than a single assessment finding. Please refer to the marking criteria to see the differentiation in grades.

The abnormal assessment findings listed are:

• • Purulent wound discharge.
  • The surgical site is painful.
  • Axillary body temperature of 39 degrees Celsius.

• Explain two (2) examples of evidence-based nursing care that could be applied to prevent and/or manage the health challenge. The examples must be within the scope of practice of a Registered Nurse.

Again, here we need to explain the examples we use. It is essential that we accompany our nursing care with current references, to demonstrate that it is evidence-based nursing care. For example:
Smith et al., (2023) identify _________ as a key nursing intervention when managing a patient with bacterial wound infection after surgery.
Then EXPLAIN this intervention
_______________ would involve doing ____ and ____ (Reference).

Then link to how this would prevent OR manage someone with bacterial wound infection after shoulder arthroscopy. If your intervention doesn’t do those things, you need to pick a different one!

Remember, you need 2 examples.

When we are talking about nursing care, this can be any action or intervention that falls within the scope of practice of a Registered Nurse. Anything we can do that will prevent or manage the condition and heal the wound. The closer you link your nursing care to preventing/managing the health challenge, the better your grade for this part!

• Identify and explain two (2) examples of evidence-based collaborative care that could be applied to prevent and/or manage the health challenge. 

This part asks you to identify 2 examples of collaborative care first. This means you need to clearly name it. E.g. An example of collaborative care that could be used to address this health challenge is a _________

The next part of the question asks you to explain the example. So here we need to explain how the identified multidisciplinary team member would help to prevent and/or manage bacterial wound infection. E.g. Smith & Robbs (2021) identified that………. would support the management of bacterial wound infection by providing ……..

This assessment item must be presented as a scholarly paper

This means that you must write in third person, no use of the terms ‘I, me, my, we, our, you’ etc. You also need to construct full sentences and paragraphs, no dot points. You can use headings to separate your work but these should be limited to only a couple.

Include an introduction, body, conclusion

The introduction contains references if needed and should introduce the task, a brief discussion on the given health challenge. Abbreviations should always be written out in full in the first use of the word. The introduction should also outline the structure of the paper. The first part explains…. The nursing care is then established as … and ….then, the collaborations to prevent and/or manage the health challenge are explained…

The body is the part of the paper that covers the assessment questions. These should have full sentences and paragraphs and you can use headings if you like to structure your work this way.

The conclusion summarises the content of your paper and for this reason, does not need to include references. This is because you have already acknowledged the source of the information in the body of the assessment and the conclusion does not introduce anything new that has not been discussed before. This is your perfect opportunity to summarise how you have addressed the assessment question!

E.g. The underlying pathophysiology of … and…. and … has been explained, the process of _________ has a clear link to many of these abnormal assessment findings. The nursing care of …. and …are current, evidence-based ways in which the nurse can prevent and manage bacterial wound infection …

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