Nursing Care Plan Assignment Brief: Develop a comprehensive nursing care plan for the patient you assessed during your simulation

Assignment Brief: Nursing Care Plan

Introduction

In this assignment, you are required to develop a comprehensive nursing care plan for the patient you assessed during your simulation. The purpose is to demonstrate your ability to identify patient problems, prioritise care, implement evidence-based nursing interventions, and reflect on your clinical decision-making.

Word count suggestion: 1000 words.
Assessment criteria: Critical thinking, evidence-based care, professional communication, and reflective practice.

Your work should be written in a structured academic format (introduction, body, conclusion, references)

Body of the Assignment

1. Patient Information Condition

• Provide a brief overview of the patient scenario from your simulation scenario.
• Include relevant background such as age, presenting complaint, medical history, and clinical findings.

2. Identification of Patient Problems

• List the actual and potential problems identified during your assessment.
• Support your findings with clinical reasoning and relevant evidence (e.g., abnormal vital signs, pain, risk of deterioration).

3. Prioritisation of Problems

• Discuss how you prioritised the problems using a recognised framework (e.g., ABCDE,).
• Justify why one problem should be addressed before another.

4. Nursing Interventions
For each prioritised problem:

• Outline at least three nursing interventions.
• Provide the rationale for each intervention supported by evidence or guidelines (e.g., NICE, NMC Code, local hospital protocols).
• Include both independent nursing actions and multidisciplinary collaboration where relevant.

5. Escalation SBAR Communication

• Explain when and how you would escalate concerns to senior staff or the multidisciplinary team.
• Use the SBAR (Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation) framework to demonstrate structured communication.
• Provide an example of how you would present your patients case using SBAR.

6. Reflection

• Reflect on your performance in the SIM scenario.
• Consider what went well, what challenges you faced, and what you would do differently in the future.
• Use a reflective model such as Gibbs Reflective Cycle or Driscolls Model of Reflection.

Conclusion

• Summarise the key points of your care plan.
• Reinforce the importance of problem identification, prioritisation, safe interventions, and effective communication in delivering quality patient care.

References

• Use Harvard referencing style.
• Include at least 5 8 academic and professional sources such as textbooks, journal articles, NICE guidelines, or NMC Code.