Title
Preventing Complications: Five Questions to Ask
Author Name
or School
Linda Caputi ©
FDLTCC
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the SLO (s)
Patient Relationship
Centered Care
Informatics/Technology
Nursing Judgment/Evidence
Based care
Student
Learning
Outcome(s)
x
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the Competency (s)
Communication Skills
Nursing Process
Learning Needs
Documentation
Informatics
Prioritization
x
X
x
Nursing Judgment
x
x
x
x
x
x
Professional Identify and
behaviors
Professionalism
Ethical/Legal
Quality Improvement
Patient Care Concerns
Systems
Patient Complications
Safe Nursing
Communication
Safety
Teamwork and
Collaboration
Managing Care of the
Individual Patient
x
Knowledge/Practice/Ethical
Comportment
K
P
E
Conflict Recognition
Managing Care of the Individual
Patient
Assign/Monitor
Where should this assignment be used:
Classroom
Clinical Setting
Independent Study
Online/Web Based
Skills Lab
Simulation
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Revised from Linda Caputi © (What type of assignment is this?)
Patient Care Assignment
Non Patient Care Assignments
Patient Care
Thinking Focused
Patient Focused
Systems Focused
The assignments are related to
Assignments encourages
The student focuses on
Assignments help the
the student while providing
critical thinking and clinical
specific aspects of
student understand the
patient care in the clinical
reasoning and teaches
patient care such as
clinical world, the nurse’s
setting.
students to think like a
safety, falls, diabetes,
work therein, and the effect
Example: Concept mapping care
nurse.
other diseases, etc.
of the system on the nurse
for one or multiple patients.
and the patient.
Example: How the system
completes medication
administration from order to
delivery to patient.
x
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ASSIGNMENT: Preventing Complications: Five Questions to Ask
Competencies measured in this assignment:
NURSING JUDGMENT/EVIDENCE BASED CARE-PRIORITIZATION OF CARE COMPETENCY:
Describe (K), demonstrate (P), and value (E) the ability to prioritize care in delivering quality, patient centered nursing care
across the lifespan.
NURSING JUDGMENT/EVIDENCE BASED CARE-NURSING JUDGMENT COMPETENCY:
Identify (K), use (P), and appreciate (E) evidence based care when conducting a focused assessment, choosing nursing
interventions within a plan of care, monitoring, and reporting changes in the individualized patient's condition across the
lifespan.
SAFETY - PATIENT COMPLICATIONS COMPETENCY:
Identify (K), implement actions (P), and recognize (E) one's responsibility to detect and respond to actual/potential patient
complications and report changes to the appropriate health care provider.
For your patient answer these questions.
Questions
NURSING JUDGMENT/EVIDENCE BASED CARE-NURSING
JUDGMENT COMPETENCY: Knowledge/Practice
1.
What are you on alert for today with this patient?
2.
What are the important assessments to make?
Answers
SAFETY - PATIENT COMPLICATIONS COMPETENCY:
Knowledge/Practice
3.
What actual/potential complications may occur? What
could go wrong?
4.
What interventions will prevent complications?
NURSING JUDGMENT/EVIDENCE BASED CAREPRIORITIZATION OF CARE COMPETENCY: Knowledge/Practice
5.
What will you do if these complications do occur?
Reflections on the “Five Questions” Assignment
NURSING JUDGMENT/EVIDENCE BASED CARE-NURSING
JUDGMENT COMPETENCY: Ethical Comportment
SAFETY - PATIENT COMPLICATIONS COMPETENCY: Ethical
Comportment
NURSING JUDGMENT/EVIDENCE BASED CAREPRIORITIZATION OF CARE COMPETENCY: Ethical
Comportment
6.
Why is it importance to you as a LPN to be able to
identify actual/potential complications and prioritize
care?
7.
What is the value to your patients for you to be able to
identify actual/potential complications and prioritize
care?
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Preventing Complications: Five Questions to Ask
Grading Rubrics
Criteria
Satisfactory (__points each)
Needs Improvement (__ points
each)
Question
1
Correctly identifies what to be alert
for with patient.
Question
2
Correctly identifies important
assessments to make.
Question
3
Correctly identifies
actual/potential complications.
Question
4
Correctly identifies interventions to
use to prevent complications.
Question
5
Correctly identifies what to do if
complications do occur.
Questions
6 and 7
Reflection
Identifies the importance to
themselves and their patients of
being able to identify
actual/potential complications and
to be able to prioritize care.
Correctly identifies what to be alert
for with patient with supportive
cues.
Correctly identifies important
assessments to make with
supportive cues.
Correctly identifies
actual/potential complications
with supportive cues.
Correctly identifies interventions to
use to prevent complications with
supportive cues.
Correctly identifies what to do if
complications do occur with
supportive cues.
Identifies the importance to
themselves or their patients (but
not both) of being able to identify
actual/potential complications and
to be able to prioritize care.
Points:
Revised from Linda Caputi © 2013
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Unsatisfactory (__points each)
Unable to correctly identify what
to be alert for with patient.
Unable to correctly identify
important assessments to make.
Unable to correctly identify
actual/potential complications.
Unable to correctly identify
interventions to use to prevent
complications.
Unable to correctly identify what
to do if complications do occur.
Unable to identify the importance
to themselves or their patients of
being able to identify
actual/potential complications
and to be able to prioritize care.