NRSG366: Caring for Patients with Chronic Illness- ISBAR- Nursing Assignment Help

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Task: Students will undertake within their tutorial IBL teams the following activities related to the role of the community nurse in caring for patients with chronic illness and/or disability. Each team member is responsible for equal contribution to the activities and all team members are required to be present for the team presentation. Presentation days and times will be allocated by your tutorial facilitator. Teams will be asked to function in the capacity of a community nurse who is allocated a workload for a single day in a designated area. Teams are provided with patient scenarios related to 4 patients with varying chronic conditions who require to be seen in single day on your morning shift. One of these is a new patient and requires a longer more extensive visit. Each team will present the following information to the tutorial facilitator and be able to respond to questions. The presentation will take the format of a case load conference or community handover and include:

• An outline of the role of the community nurse in relation to each patient drawing upon a job description.
• ISBAR handover for each patient. You should use the components of the clinical reasoning cycle (over page) to guide your ISBAR handover.
• Daily Planner including travel time, patient consult time and meal breaks
• Reference list
• Team Contribution Declaration
• One Assessment Rubric Per Team Member

You should aim to answer these questions as part of your ISBAR handover: 1. What is the pathophysiology of the client’s current condition(s)? What is your assessment of the client’s current medication including pharmacology and pharmacokinetics? 2. Consider the patient/collect cues- what information do you have? 3. Assessments required- What further information do you need or would like prior to your visit? 4. Identify problem/Issue- why are you visiting them? What will you do once there? 5. Establish Goal- What is it that you aim to achieve through your care and how will you undertake the care required? 6. Evaluation- what strategies will you use to evaluate the outcomes?