QSEN: The Lewis Blackman Case Study Assignment
1. Engage in critical thinking and clinical reasoning to make client centered care decisions
2. Implement quality measures to improve client care
3. Participate in collaborative relationships with members of the interdisciplinary team, the client, and the client’s support persons
4. Use information management principles, techniques, and systems, and client care technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision-making
5. Assimilate professional, legal, and ethical guidelines in practice as a professional nurse.
Instructions:
Welcome to the Lewis Blackman Case Study. Please use the link below to help you answer subsequent questions about this case study discussed in each of the videos. Answers for each question should range between 50-100 words.
QSEN: The Lewis Blackman Story
General Guidelines: All responses must address all components of the assignment and be completed by the due date to receive credit. Please reference at least one of the student learning outcomes above in your response.
Question 1: When Helen Haskell says, “patients need to be empowered and nurses need to embrace it”, how do you react to her suggestion?
Question 2: What can health care professionals do to create a hospital culture that supports effective teamwork and patient-centered care?
Questions 3: Helen Haskell describes nurses focused on task completion (including documentation of a plan of care) rather than on accurate assessment, application of knowledge, listening to patient and family, and action on the patient’s behalf. How accurate is her depiction of nursing care you have observed? In instances where you have made similar observations, what contributes to this “misplaced” work focus?
Question 4: What policies or safeguards could help protect patients and families from a health care team’s inability to recognize a developing problem?
Question 5: What are your ideas about patient empowerment and nurse empowerment in terms of the overall safety of our health care systems? When are the interests of patients and nurses in alignment? When are they not?
References:
https://www.qsen.org/post/the-lewis-blackman-story