Learning Outcomes:
• Analyse and apply the importance of infection control and prevention in a health care environment
• Analyse Gordon’s functional health patterns framework – Skin- intimate care, SSKIN pressure area management, waterlow measurement, incontinence associated dermatitis. Nutrition and metabolism, MUST tool and intake and output, elimination- urinary and bladder- Bristol Tool.
• Assess and reflect how the nursing process provides a comprehensive nursing assessment of the patient based on NADA Nursing Diagnosis classification.
• Describe and integrate methods of measuring, recording and documentation of clinical observations using the early warning score (EWS) and clinical reasoning tool ISBAR in structuring and standardizing communication.