Patient Accountability Essay

Professional accountability/Attendance:

I introduced myself to the nurse responsible for the assigned patient after unit change of shift meeting. Patient report was received by the third shift nurse about patient condition and future care requirements. Meet with patient and family after report to be introduced and perform initial patient assessment.

Patient and family centered care:

Perform patient health and safety assessment while gathering information from patient and family about diagnosis. Read patient’s health electronic record in order to better understand patient symptoms as well as to perform a more knowledgeable patient care at the time of communicating and providing patient education about his treatment.

Teamwork and collaboration:

Communicate constantly to the nurse responsible to the assigned Patient as well as other members of the health care system. Be able to have a positive team interaction and collaboration with classmates by assisted them at time of patient especial needs and requirements.
Evidence base practice:
See attached research document.
Quality improvement:
Incorporate hospital policies and protocols to improve patient care as hand wash before and after entering a patient room as well as PPE. Introduce and applied nursing skills as well as to identify patient needs while providing assessment and care of the patient. Be attentive to patient responses and reaction to be able to understand verbal and not verbal communication.
Informatics:
Use epic to achieve a better understanding of patient’s health, diagnosis and treatment while caring for a patient.

Used epic also to chart patient vital signs, assessments, input and output, safety and medications administration. Introduce informatics to improve and standardizes patients care.

Safety:

Introduce safety precautions at all times to improve patients health care. Assess patient’s environment like bed side rails, call lights within patient reach, allergic bands and arm bands before administrating medication plus incorporating the using the barcode scanning system and two ID identification.

Reflection:

My assigned patient was very easy to take care of and required very minimum attention and care due to the patient age, independency and constant family support. However, the patient was very collaborative at time of assessment and medication. The fact the patient was able to provide his own personal hygiene and was ready to be discharged made our interaction shorter; however, it is always nice to see patients feeling better and able to go home and try to continue with their own routines and family relationship. On the other hand the fact that my patient was getting discharge allow me to be a little more involve with other patients on the unit and assist my classmate with their patients. The fact that Friday was my last at Children’s Hospital make me think on how much I enjoyed the rotation and work with children, it has been definitely a great experience that make me considered pediatric as a possible place of work and a field that seems very tentative as a possible route to

follow.