First do no harm: Teaching and assessing the recognition and rescue of deteriorating patients to nursing students
Tucker, Guy, Unsworth, John and Hindmarsh, Yvonne (2015) First do no harm: Teaching and assessing the recognition and rescue of deteriorating patients to nursing students. Journal of Nurse Education and Practice, 5 (6). pp. 31-38. ISSN 1925-4040
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Abstract
Failure to recognise and appropriately rescue the deteriorating patient is a global issue which has the potential to cause serious harm to patients. Such recognition and rescue of a deteriorating patient requires both technical and non-technical skills and there are multiple points for potential failure. The taking and recording of vital observations is one of the cornerstones of recognising deterioration. However, such observations are often delegated to students and the least experienced staff. This paper explores the teaching and assessment of under-graduate nursing students to recognise and arrange the rescue of a deteriorating patient within the first 16 weeks of their course. The paper describes the development of an integrated Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) and the subsequent evaluation of this using survey data, student performance results and unobtrusive methods. The results suggest that it is possible to use an integrated OSCE to assess students even at such an early stage in their course. Although data from other Higher Education Institutions in the UK suggests that integrated OSCEs at such an early stage are rare. The appropriate teaching of vital observations, structured hand off and reporting enable students to contribute to safer care and to adhere to the maxim “First Do No Harm”.
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Item ID: 9033 |
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.5430/jnep.v5n6p31 |
ISSN: 1925-4040 |
URI: http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/9033 | Official URL: http://www.sciedu.ca/journal/index.php/jnep/articl... |
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Date Deposited: 26 Mar 2018 15:27 |
Last Modified: 18 Dec 2019 16:06 |
Author: | Guy Tucker |
Author: | John Unsworth |
Author: | Yvonne Hindmarsh |
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Faculty of Health Sciences and WellbeingFaculty of Health Sciences and Wellbeing > School of Nursing and Health Sciences
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