Assignment:
Answer the following 3 questions; the only requirement is that each answer is at least 200 words and at least 2 cited resources for each answer. If you need me to give you more information, please let me know.
1) Read "Case Study: Communicating Accurate Information in a Care Situation" at the beginning of Chapter 12 in the textbook. Prepare a communication plan or memo to share what you have found with a physician and post this information in the discussion forum. Identify similarities and differences between your response and those of your peers. Need Assignment Help?
2) What are the benefits of professional development for health care providers? What are the benefits of professional development for the patients with whom the health care providers interact and for the organizations in which they are employed? Choose two benefits of professional development for health care providers and explain how they motivate you in your academic and professional career.
3) Considering what you have learned throughout this course, what communication and teamwork skills and behaviors can you apply in the health care organization for which you work or hope to work to improve patient care and to advance your professional career? What can you do today to set your professional plans in motion?
Here is the case study below for question 1 and the name of the book is called foundations of interprofessional collaborative practice in health care. Chapter 12 page 177
Case Study: Communicating Accurate Information in a Care Situation
Specific Sub-competency to consider and apply: CC1.
You are a new nurse working on a cardiac step-down unit. Eva Schmidt is a 76-year-old patient who was admitted 4 days ago with a diagnosis of congestive heart failure. She was transferred to your step-down unit from the cardiac intensive care unit (CICU). This is your first day working with her and her second day on the unit. Mrs. Schmidt mentions to you how much better she is feeling since she is finally getting some "good food." She tells you the food on your unit is great compared with the "cardboard" tasting food in CICU. She describes the breakfast that she had this morning (scrambled eggs with ham and cheese) and last night's "delicious" dinner. You notice that her weight is up 2.2 pounds from her weight on admission to your unit and that she has 2+ pitting edema in her feet and ankles. You check her diet order and it is for a "regular diet."
You are the nurse calling the physician to update the patient's status to avert future complications. You think that an oral diuretic (water pill) is indicated because Mrs. Schmidt's blood pressure is rising, her weight is up, pitting edema is present, and she has had no diet or fluid restrictions.