Blog 17: Third Answer

1.  What is your EQ?

How can a Psychiatric Technician best provide quality care to a Psychiatric Patient?

2.  What is your first answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

One of the best ways to ensure quality patient care is by assuring that the patient is at the center of care.

3.  What is your second answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

One of the best ways to ensure quality patient care is by being competent in the field of nursing and pathophysiology.

4. What is your third answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

One of the best ways to ensure quality patient care is by ensuring that your team and patients are safe.

5.  List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.

Answer 1

1. A One to One
2. Forming a Treatment Plan
3. Given specific medication

Answer 2

1. Knowledge of recognizing signs and symptoms of abnormalities
2. Knowing interventions and properly following the doctors orders
3. Evaluation of Intervention

Answer 3

1. Completely electronic medical records help assure accuracy and an instantaneous, smooth flow of information so staff throughout the hospital are current on a patient’s status.
2. Separate accommodations, with higher staff-to-patient ratios, for increased privacy, supervision and assistance.
3. “Continuity of Care”Being able to provide the appropriate level of care required for a patient at any given time.

6.  What printed source best supports your answer?

Textbook of Basic Nursing

7.  What other source supports your answer?

Information gathered during my third interviews.

8.  Tie this together with a concluding thought.

Quality patient care is a difficult thing to find anywhere nowadays and being able to properly provide safety along with quality care is extremely important for the patients health.