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There were a number of nursing priorities identified, the patient also has hypertension. The key priority for nursing care with this patient is her learning about disability and the potential communication barriers that may occur. The patient’s hypertension is well controlled with medication for these reasons. So we will focus this assignment around communication barriers with people with learning disabilities, the importance of good communication between the multi-disciplinary team within the unit. So it is important that we explore any issues with consenting to the procedure as it is imperative that the patient is fully aware of the procedure and understands the possible risks and complications.

So it is mandatory that we introduced ourselves to the patient stating that we was a student nurse and gained verbal consent to carry on with the assessment, as a student nurse you must respect patient’s wishes at all times, if they do not wish for a student to carry out the assessment this must be respected, the patient wishes out way the need for the student to gain experience (NMC 2005). In accordance with the NMC 2008 where it states that nurses must protect and promote dignity all pre-assessments are carried out in a private room (NMC 2008). My mentor made aware by the reception staff before that the patient has learning disabilities. I ensured that short sentences and the appropriate language. Also ensure that the patient was given the time to process what was being said to her?
During the assessment we need to be keen to make sure that the patient was clear about what the procedure involves and the routine of the day, throughout the assessment we are concerned that while we believe the patient did understand the Procedure, we are concerned as to whether all the possible complications and post procedure instructions were fully understood, I was also