Description
During Intensive , you will be assessing and implementing care for a patient experiencing a small bowel obstruction (SBO). During your workshop you will be required to consider a nursing care plan. Following this Intensive, using the provided CRC Nursing Care Plan Template you will need to consider the patient situation, identify normal and abnormal cues collected and identify the highest priority nursing problem. After devising your nursing problem, you will need to:
Develop SMART goal(s)
Devise nursing actions (at least 3) and specify if it is a nursing dependent or independent action
Provide a rationale for each action
Evaluate outcomes for each action.
Goals, Actions and Evaluation
For the nursing problem of highest importance:
Establish goals for each nursing problem: using the SMART acronym
List the related actions (minimum 3), in order of priority that you would undertake to achieve that goal. Specify if the action is a dependant or independent nursing action.
Provide a rationale that associates the pathophysiological and psychological principles with each selected nursing action
Describe how you would evaluate the effectiveness of the care provided (i.e. how will you know that your actions were beneficial to the patient?)
