Episode of Care – Summative
Within your reflection, describe the episode of care and how you assessed, delivered, and evaluated care.

In my placement I have been asked by the staff to take daily observations. This is important to manage a patient’s well-being and knowing if it Is needed to escalate. On one of the observations/vital signs I took a patient’s oxygen saturation which was 82% which was in range for a patient who has copd. However, I noticed her breathing was very shallow. I decided to escalate and ask a member of staff to come and check my findings.

What did you do well?

Escalate quickly.

Knowing that this wasn’t the ‘norm’.

Good communication with other staff members

What would you have done differently.

Maybe try to get the patient to change position and if they can’t do this themselves due to medical condition give them support. In this case the patient wasn’t talking and very sleepy even on oxygen 2l.