Fundamental skills for person and family centred practice

Assignment Task

Choose one member of the family from the module

• You need to discuss the appropriate communication and assessment skills required to facilitate person centred care for this family member.

• You need to include your professional responsibility in assessing and communicating with this patient

Detailed instructions

Introduction

Introduce your patient, give a brief background to them, must be anonymous. They have come to the accident and emergency department following a scald to their right arm

Main body

Describe the nursing process and explain why accurate assessment is vital here

Explain what the A-E assessment is and why it is important for your patient

Discuss why you need to follow on with a holistic assessment

Examine 2 assessment tools that are relevant for your patient and include subjective and objective data

Discuss why it is vital to have good communication skills – you will need to include what these are and what communication skills are required for your patient

Link this into what a therapeutic relationship is and why it is important

Discuss what professionalism is within nursing and what aspects need to be considered for your patient, e.g. consent; competence; documentation; confidentiality. This MUST be linked to the NMC, failure to recognise your governing body (NMC) will result in a fail.

Conclusion

Summarise what you have discussed in your essay