Essay:You are a new graduate nurse and part of a small multidisciplinary team… 1 answer below »

Description/Focus: Four short-essay questions
Value: 40%
Length: 1600 words (i.e. 4 short essays of 400 words each)
Assessment Task:
You will find four questions below relating to an evolving clinical scenario. Respond to each question in chronological order. Each response must use correctly structured paragraphs in response to the task (400 words maximum per question).
You are a new graduate nurse and part of a small multidisciplinary team in a large 24-hour medical clinic. A young woman has just presented. She is dishevelled, appears nervous, constantly moving about the waiting room looking closely at different objects. She responds warily to any interaction with other patients. She has asked reception several times if a doctor can see her now. The duty doctor asks you to sit in and assist him with the interview.
1. Describe the key communication skills you will use in order to engage with her in the interview. (400 words)
The young woman gives her name as Sarah. In response to asking why she has attended, she gives a clearly articulated story about a school teacher using radiation to control her thoughts. She describes difficulty getting onto the train to attend school as she feels other passengers can find out what she is thinking. When you ask her how she feels about her situation she says it is very confusing and frightening. In response to the doctor asking if he can help, she says she wants him to “make it all stop”.
2. There are a number of clinical signs and symptoms in the scenario so far. Identify three significant signs or symptoms and s