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Management Workbook

Promoting the Development and Understanding of Management Issues for Pre-Registration Nurses

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Scenario 2 - Time Management and Prioritising

You have been allocated an acutely ill patient to care for on a one to one basis. The patient is NBM, has a central line for IV fluids and antibiotics, and has a surgical wound with 2 drains and a urinary catheter. They require oxygen continuously, need frequent suctioning and are unable to move themselves around the bed. The patient has had no bowel movement for 4 days.

Question 1

Question 1: What nursing care will you plan to give this patient throughout your shift?

Question 2

Question 2: The patient's visitors arrive when you are about to carry out some pressure area care, what do you do?

Question 3

Question 3: Another member of staff asks you to come to the next room to assist with toileting a patient. How would you respond and what would be your reasoning?

Question 4

Question 4: If you had not achieved all you had intended with this patient's care at the end of your shift, what should you do?

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