Question

INSTRUCTIONS:

After the reading case scenario below, discuss how the LPN can appropriately prioritize and delegate tasks. Remember to critique two of your classmates' posts; include your rationale; and utilze your eBook as a reference.

Case Scenario

A nurse has been practicing as an LPN for 6 weeks, and felt ready to assume full responsibility for his own patient assignment. The nurse seldom asked for help and could usually accomplish all of his assigned tasks independently. On the first morning, his preceptor agreed that he could handle a full patient assignment. The 7:00 am report was as follows: The patient receiving blood would need vital signs checked at 7:30 am; a newly admitted patient was scheduled for surgery in less than 1 hour; a diabetic patient with nausea had just returned from x-ray; a patient ruled out for a myocardial infarction was scheduled for discharge; and a patient with asthma had her light on. The charge nurse assigned a nursing assistant to help the LPN.

Answer 1

As for prioritizing
If you look at the list of your true potential problems, you will assign a rating to each item.

A: Things that need to be addressed now (if not, the patient will be seriously harmed)
B: Things that need to be addressed first (you can definitely ignore these issues)
100: Things that need to be taken care of today (do not make them wait for any discharge from the back and put the final routine care)
500: a patient can help the progression of healing (these tend to be more proactive and business mobility, nutrition and long-term therapies)
Now depending on what works, you may have a lot of deserted competitors. For UCI or ED, they are too many to have seen already ... or at least now. You will need to provide the most appropriate priority patient because you have resources available to you.

For example, let's say your patient and C2 is 6.8% at 86% hemoglobin saturation of room air. Both must be addressed in a timely manner; in this case, you can improve a patient's room now and soon the oxygenation status of oxygen. It only takes a moment to grab a nasal oxygen cannula or a person to do the immediate thing (of course, but they're not always next to keeping things simple for this example). Get the blood of power to be transfused, although it is still very large, to be the future. So this is something to ask about pain. Doc. These two things are necessary to the heart in you, and in a timely manner they are prioritized more effectively for both.

How do you think about prioritization and time management? Just ask yourself questions:

Is this problem acute, chronic or problem? (Sharp generally decaying over the spot)
What can I do to fix it faster? (If you choose both interventions and one can equally benefit the patient, and the quickest / easiest first)
If you failed to perform the correct patient (the patient thinks about health and some life-threatening things!)
What do you want to delegate to maximize results? (To use the resources!)
What matters to me so much so that they would not fear: can it be done in any way, so that there is more? (Sometimes you have to routinely wait when the unexpected arises)
What can I do as a nurse, who is it and what does the job consist of? (Who can be patient while waiting for help to arrive in their 1500s)
Will the treatment, the diagnosis and especially the impact register the condition of the patient that it is supposed to be? (The patient must take care that the nurses coordinate it, even though he did a lot of therapies, docs / treatments / medications ... it is the frequency with which he drives and everything he gets).

SCENERIO:

A nurse is practicing for the LPN, as she is at 6 weeks, and they thought it was theirs, bear with them, they must be prepared for the Marchiennes song service. In fact, rarely is a nurse used to being independent of their affairs and all the things we ask of them. At dawn each teacher could handle a complete patient Alban. 7:00 pm In the report, she said, the patient's vital signs is necessary, be it at 7:30 am so that the consumption of the blood of the words is extinguished; 1 hour, the diabetic patient is related to the new approach to be received at the feet of the patient, a ray of nausea recently arrived from 10 o'clock; Be patient too, because he is excluded so that he is clean from the flow of seeds, and he is programmed for a myocardial infarction; be patient and drop the case with asthma. The position carries a nursing assistant assigned to assist LPN.