Assignment paper
1. Review the following case study
Barbara is an HCA who has been working on the general medicine unit
for the past year. Today she is being asked to mentor David, a newly
hired HCA. David has been working as a casual in residential care and
will be working as a casual HCA on Barbara’s medical unit as well. Today
is the first day that David will begin his mentorship with Barbara. Just as
Barbara and David are about to get Mr. Roberts out of bed, Barbara is
called by the LPN to offer assistance to Mrs. Jones in the next room.
When she returns to Mr. Roberts’ room, she sees David struggling to get
Mr. Roberts out of bed. David identifies that the physiotherapy assistant
who just popped in the room a few moments ago stated that Mr. Roberts
can get out of bed on his own. Mr. Roberts is an ALC (Alternate Level of
Care) patient and has been on the medical unit for the past 30 days and
is well known to Barbara. A second patient on this unit, also named Mr.
Roberts, had been admitted for pneumonia several days ago and is
awaiting his discharge.
2. Discuss the following questions:
a. How might Barbara approach David about his decision to get Mr.
Roberts out of bed?
b. What recommendations should Barbara suggest to David about his
future decision-making processes related to patient care?
c. What other team members should be made aware of this situation?
d. Identify two ways that interprofessional communication could be
improved in this scenario?
