discuss the relevance of patient centred care and the importance (or not) of the patient’s involvement in their care and consider how relevant health policy shapes or guidelines informs decisions.

 

Clinical Decision-Making Assessment: A report into the clinical decisions made for a clinical care scenario.

You have to write a report on a clinical care scenario that involves clinical decision making.

Consider any clinical placements recent or one that you can remember. Think of an episode of care that was undertaken. This does not have to be good or bad. Please avoid anything that may be personal, emotive or considered poor practice and needs escalating. We are using this as an opportunity to learn why something happened in a particular way or why it may be best for it to be undertaken differently. You are also able to frame this on one of the case studies if you choose to.

The clinical care scenario care will provide the framework for the report and the critical discussions and therefore ensure that it has sufficient content to be able to explore, and not too much that it is hard to cover.

Tasks to undertake in order to write the report:

1. Identify an episode of care. Write down the details.
2. Consider the clinical decisions made and the processes involved getting to that decision. By doing this you may uncover elements that you will explore within your clinical care scenario. For instance, experience, ethical or professional aspects may influence the decision-making process.
3. Write down the key clinical decisions made. Break these down so that they can be explored. You may not choose to write all of these down. Focus on the important aspects

 

The report has to cover the following aspects

1. A brief summary of the clinical decisions made.
2. A discussion of the pathophysiology and pharmacology relevant to the episode of care
3. The importance of person-centred care and involving patients in their decisions around the planning and implementation of their care.
4. Discuss the relevance of health policy in relation to the episode of care.
5. Critical discussion and evidence to support or refute the decisions that were made
6. Evaluating the effect of the decision

Included in the report there must be consideration towards:

Ethical issues and professionalism.

Systematic approaches to care, for instance the Nursing process.

There must be critical discussion and evidence to support your writing from a wide range of sources.

Word count 2500+/- 10% due on the 27^th of April at 10.00am.

 

You will be offered the opportunity to undertake a formative to support you with your assignment.

The formative will consist of 500 words on section 2: Explore the relevant pathophysiology and pharmacology relevant to this clinical care scenario. Include in the appendix your clinical care scenario and an outline of your report (bullet points). 11th of February at 10 am

Report into the clinical decisions made and the rationale and evidence supporting or refuting these clinical decisions.
Date
	Clinical care scenario concerning… (note all names, places of work have been changed to protect patient confidentiality)
This report is about the clinical care scenario found in appendix 1. Please refer to this for information regarding the nature and the issues discussed in the report.
1.			Identify the key clinical decisions made that are relevant to this clinical care scenario of care and will be explored further within this report. You may choose to frame this section in context of a suitable decision-making model. Include here any ethical or professional issues.
2.				Explore the relevant pathophysiology and pharmacology relevant to this clinical care scenario
3. 4. 5.		In this section. In relation to the clinical decisions made; critically discuss the evidence supporting or refuting these decisions, discuss the relevance of patient centred care and the importance (or not) of the patient’s involvement in their care and consider how relevant health policy shapes or guidelines informs decisions.
6		In respect of the findings in the report; evaluate the care given and how the evidence supporting or refuting the clinical decisions made will impact on future practice.