Assessment Task 2B: Clinical reasoning report

Assessment Task 2B: Clinical reasoning report

Description

This assessment task requires you to submit a written report (1000words) that demonstrates your ability to apply selected phases of the clinical reasoning process, at an introductory level, to your assigned patient scenario from Assessment Task 2A:

1. Provide a brief summary of your assigned patient scenario.

This section relates to the ‘Consider the patient situation’ phase of

the clinical reasoning cycle.

2. List the objective and subjective data that you have collected from

reviewing the patient scenario information provided.

This section relates to the ‘Collect cues/information’ phase of the

clinical reasoning cycle.

3. Analyse and interpret your patient’s vital signs data and explain

the significance of the information in this patient’s context.

This section relates to the ‘Process information’ phase of the clinical

reasoning cycle.

4. Critically reflect on your clinical skills to gather vital signs data

(Assessment Task 2A).

This section relates to the ‘Reflect on process and new learning’

phase of the clinical reasoning cycle.

You should take the peer-review feedback from your partner into

account when you prepare for writing this section of the report and

upload the feedback form into the Assignments folder.

· Identify one strength (something you did well) during the skills

assessment and briefly explain why this promotes a positive

patient outcome.

· Identify one aspect of your practice for improvement

(something you did not do so well or did not do at all during the

skills assessment). Briefly explain what you should do differently

next time and why this is important for promoting a positive

patient outcome. Outline at least one course of action (what

further learning do you need to do) for improving this aspect of

your practice.

Sections 1, 2 & 3 (consider the patient situation, collect cues and

information, and process the information) should be approximately

700 words. Section 4 (critical reflection on the vital signs skills

assessment) should be approximately 300 words.

You will need to use relevant scholarly sources of information

(textbooks, journal articles, evidence-based practice guidelines or

clinical care standards) to support your analysis of your patient’s

health information and critical reflection. The Harvard referencing

style should be used for citation of information sources throughout

the text (in-text referencing) and a reference list at the end of the

report.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.