Nursing Assignment - Healthcare Management, Priorities, and Skills

This nursing assignment addresses key aspects of healthcare management, including time management, work priorities, and professional development. The assignment begins by outlining a daily task schedule for a nurse, detailing the rationale behind each activity. It then explores strategies for efficie...Read More

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Nursing Assignment 1
Question 1:
TIME Task Rationale
0700
Greet clients First thing that should be done after arriving at the
workplace is to greeting the client as it aids in
maintaining a healthy professional relationship with the
client.
0800
Assist clients with
breakfast
Client should be provided with breakfast at proper time
in order to improve the health condition of the client and
also avoid further deterioration of health.
0900
Make beds Beds are made, bedsheets are changed so that client
feels fresh and can rest properly.
0930 Fold linens Linens are folded so that client feels good and fresh.
1030
15-20 minutes morning
tea
Break should be taken to relieve the stress.
1100
Tidy stock room In order to prevent contamination and thereby to reduce
health related risks.
1130
Assist clients to the
dining room for lunch
In order to provide proper meal to the patient at specific
time.
1230
Take a 30 minute lunch
break
To provide energy and rest to the body in order to work
better in the later half.
1300
Attend staff meeting To discuss about important updates and information
related to health care service and the patients.

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1400
Take around the tea
trolley
In order to provide refreshment to every patient.
1430 10 minute break To refresh our mind.
1500
Check that all
documentation (e.g. falls
risk assessments,
progress notes and
charts) is up to date
To ensure that the client is getting the proper treatment
(Perry, Potter and Ostendorf 2015).
1600
Shift finish - handover To provide proper update regarding patient treatment to
the one who will be in- charge
Question 2:
 Arriving early as it helps in completing the work within the stipulated time without any
delay.
 Taking notes about the health condition of the client at once will save time by avoiding
the burden of doing same work over and over again.
 Being flexible at the workplace helps in managing the client’s requirement at specific
time.
 Carefully listening to the client as it helps in avoiding future misunderstanding and will
require extra time for that (Cherry and Jacob 2016).

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Question 3:
 Computer software programs- Software helps in maintaining the health record of the
client as well helps in organizing other documents.
 Smartphones – With the help of different application of the smartphones such as,
calendar helps in keeping tab of the important date. With the help of emails, important
information can be distributed. Internet helps in accessing various information related to
patient treatment.
 Intranet- with the help of intranet, important information could be accessed easily among
the healthcare staff in limited time (Kowitlawakul et al. 2015).
Question 4:
 Formal feedback: while taking formal feedback, defensiveness should be avoided as it
can lead to conflict, appreciation is showed as it encourages the patient to provide an
honest feedback. While taking the feedback it is also ensured that the person understand
the feedback properly so that it can be improved.
 Informal feedback: In informal feedback, the feedback is evaluated for further
improvisation, ask them how you can change for better suggestion and defensiveness
should be avoided to avoid any conflict.
 360 degree feedback: In this, the person collecting should remain focussed to get detailed
feedback, ask them how you can improvise for better suggestion and defensiveness
should be avoided to avoid intra-organizational conflict (Mettiäinen 2015).
Question 5-
While assisting a client in the shower, an emergency buzzer starts ringing. In that case, I
will first try to complete the shower of the patient by myself or will ask any other health- care

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staff for assistance in order to complete the work quickly. This will provide me some time to
tend to the emergency. If after hearing the buzzer, I will run for the emergency, it will harm my
rapport with the patient as well as the patient will not get the required care. As both the works are
equally important, I will try to manage both within time (Twigg et al. 2016).
Question 6:
Absenteeism is frequently observed among an organization. In such cases, it is important
to achieve all the work objectives even when there is one less staff. In order to do so, it is
important to manage the time effectively which requires flexibility among the staff for
accommodating some more work. In order to do all the task in specific time, a to-do list should
be prepared which will ensure that nothing remains unattended. Activity log is also created in
such cases to ensure everything is on their time such as patient care (Tsakitzidis et al. 2017).
Question 7:
Personal development options include coaching and mentoring. With the help of
coaching and mentoring, professional knowledge will be enhanced. Enhancement in professional
knowledge helps in better patient care which will improving the recovery process of the patient.
It also helps in enhancing the professional skill which will assist while handling the situation. Job
rotation will also help in professional development. With the help of job rotation, knowledge
regarding different roles will be enhanced which help in future while handling the patient.
Internal classroom training helps in enhancing the professional skill as well as professional
knowledge and experience among the healthcare staff (Stewart-Lord, Baillie and Woods 2017).

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Question 8:
The mandatory standards that is required to maintain the AHPRA registration is to do
about 20 hours of continuing professional development. CPD helps in processing the track and
documenting the skills that help in enhancing the professional knowledge and experience that
can be gained either formally by taking classes or coaching or informally by job rotation. 10
hours must be related to the medication endorsement for all the nurses that are schedules for the
medicine endorsement. With the help of these they can prescribe medicine of level 2, 3 and 4 in
emergency condition in absence of general practitioner (King 2018).

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