Nursing Paper-Wound Management Plan

Wound Management Plan

Task instructions:
You are required to write a wound management for a resident you are caring for on your placement this includes filling in a wound management chart (see attached), interviewing the resident and reading the current history
Please note that if you are unable to find a resident with a wound by the end of the first week of placement, the clinical educator needs to contact the subject teacher who will arrange an alternative scenario to be completed by the student.

▪ You are to gather information on a resident during clinical placement
▪ You will need to ask permission from the clinical placement facility before you begin gather information about your chosen resident
▪ No identifying information should be included in the wound care plan

Wound Care Plan – please address the following:

1. Diagnosis of chosen resident including:
• Presenting problem
• Other medical conditions (including chronic health conditions)
• The type of wound and how it occurred (ie friction, tearing, accident)
2. Evaluation of the wound including:
• Wound bed status (include colour/s)
• Wound measurements
• Condition of surrounding skin (ie intact, breaking down)
• Wound exudate (colour, consistency, odour)
3. Physiology of the healing process taking into consideration the wound and any factors that may impact on the healing process (ie chronic health conditions, location of wound, age of resident)
4. Evaluation of the wound management plan including:
• Dressing/s
• Frequency of dressing changes
• How the wound is cleaned
• Progress being made
• Any changes that occur to the plan during clinical placement
5. Health education that may be provided to the resident in regards to their wound
6. Pain management relating to the wound
7. Wound care assessment plan included (provided to students via Brightspace)

Submission guidelines:
▪ Students to complete and attach Assessment Cover Sheet to completed Assessment Task.
▪ This is an individual assignment
▪ The assignment must be submitted via Brightspace the Friday one week post the last day of your clinical placement. Your file must be saved using the following format: Your family name_student number_assessment task identifier e.g. Hall_100123123_Case Study 1
▪ You must keep a copy of all work that is submitted
▪ While this assignment is using resident data that you do not need to reference any source that you use to support your work must be referenced. Plagiarism is not acceptable. The laws of copyright mean that you cannot copy or cut and paste test from resource material. The assignment must be in your own words and must be referenced appropriately.
▪ Typing for the introduction should be in Arial size 12 with 1.5 line spacing. For the Nursing Care plan please use typing Arial size 12 with single line spacing.
▪ Please refer to the Student Information Handbook for information regarding late submission.
▪ The word limit for the introduction is 1000 – 1250 words. In-text references are included in the word count. The assignment will not be assessed beyond the allocated word limited.

Section D – Conditions for assessment
Conditions:
Student to complete and attach Assessment Cover Sheet to the completed Assessment Task.
▪ This is an individual assessment
▪ Discuss with your assessor if your feel you require special consideration or adjustment for this task
▪ Student must meet all the conditions in the marking guide to be deemed satisfactory in this task.
▪ You must pass all the questions in order to pass the assessment.
▪ Students may resubmit this task if deemed not successful within the enrolment period as per Holmesglen assessment procedure if they meet the requirement to be eligible to a resubmission.
▪ Students may appeal and assessment decision according to the Holmesglen procedure.
▪ You must submit your assignment via Turnitin. Similarity should not be over 30% for the assignment to be marked.

Equipment/resources students must supply:
Equipment/resources to be provided by the RTO:
▪ Residents information

▪ Assignment on Brightspace
▪ Wound care assessment plan