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Assignment Task

1. Produce a person-centred care plan to address the needs of the patient in the Case Study (LO 1
   and 3)
2. Write a 2000 word critical essay addressing the assignment title (LO 2 and 4)
   Aim of the Assignment
3. The Care Plan (1000 words)
   Select an episode of care from the co-produced case study and apply your knowledge and understanding
   of the principles of assessment and systematic nursing diagnosis to produce a holistic person-centred care
   plan.
   The care plan should identify the patient’s health needs, problems and goals and identify nursing
   interventions that will address them. The care plan should include detail of how you will evaluate the
   effectiveness of care.
4. The Essay (2000 words)
   Produce an evidence-based, critical discussion which further explores your patient’s care needs and at
   least two proposed nursing interventions.
   You will use evidence from academic and professional sources to provide a justification for your
   interventions and how they will be evaluated.
   The essay should also consider the role of others in the provision of person-centred care such as the
   patient, their family, other agencies, and members of the Multidisciplinary Team (MDT).
   These two assessment tasks will demonstrate your learning from this module and provide you with an
   opportunity to show that you can devise safe and effective care plans based on a sound evidence base.
   You will also show the clinical skill of care planning and your understanding of working within an
   effective MDT.
   Assignment
   Guidelines
   Assessment Planning
   ‘Failing to plan, is planning to fail’
   Please access the UW Study Skills resources to help you prepare for writing your assignment. An essay
   planning template is also available on Blackboard.
   1 – The Care Plan
   Here is some general guidance for designing a care plan. Present your care plan in a table format, you
   may wish to use the following as headings or sections on your care plan template.
5. Assessment: This should identify the patient’s health needs, problems, and goals. It involves
   collecting information or data from the patient, family members, and healthcare team. This may
   include a physical assessment, review of medical and social history and other diagnostic tests.
   (This part will be available within your case study)
6. Diagnosis: Analyse the patient’s data and identify actual or potential nursing diagnoses.
7. Planning: Develop a plan of care based on the nursing diagnoses identified in the assessment. This
   plan should include patient-centred goals, interventions and expected outcomes. Goals should be
   specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART). (LO 1)
8. Implementation: Implement the interventions identified in the care plan. This may include
   administering medications, providing patient education, performing nursing procedures and
   collaborating with other healthcare professionals.
9. Evaluation: Evaluate the effectiveness of the care plan by comparing the patient’s progress to the
   goals and expected outcomes. Document the patient’s response to the interventions and revise the
   care plan as needed. (LO 3)
   Here is a general format for documenting a nursing care plan:

• Patient Information: Name, age, sex, medical history, current diagnosis, and other relevant
  information.
• Nursing Diagnosis
• Goals and Expected Outcomes: State the patient-centred goals and expected outcomes for the
  nursing diagnosis.
• Interventions: Describe the nursing interventions that will be implemented to achieve the goals and
  expected outcomes.
• Evaluation: Document the patient’s response to the interventions and evaluate the effectiveness of
  the care plan.
• Revision: Revise the care plan as needed based on the patient’s progress and response to
  interventions.
  It’s important to remember that this is just a general template, and the specific format of your nursing care
  plan may vary on your individual patient needs.
  Part 2 – Essay
  Enhancing Patient Care through Evidence-Based Nursing Interventions and Effective
  Multidisciplinary Team working: A Critical discussion
  This essay will critically explore and justify at least two nursing interventions identified in your care
  plan. You will also discuss provision of the care in the context of an effective multidisciplinary team.
  A suggested layout is provided below:
• Your essay should have a clear, organised structure. Each section should present your ideas in a way that
  the reader can understand, follow, and be convinced by your arguments. You should support your
  report with robust evidence cited throughout in Harvard (University of Worcester) style.
  Introduction
  This section will introduce the aim of your essay and provide an overview of what your reader should
  expect. You may introduce the nursing process or define and explain care planning. Introduce your case
  study with a very brief overview of your patient remembering not to recount the whole case. You can
  place the patient scenario as an appendix. Begin with a brief overview of the importance of patient care
  and the role of evidence-based nursing interventions and multidisciplinary teamwork in enhancing it.
  Provide some background information on the topic and explain why it is important to critically discuss
  these issues. Identify the nursing interventions you plan to discuss.
  Rationale for Care Planning and Evidence based interventions
  This section will explore the need for planning patient care to ensure it is person-centred, safe and
  effective.
  Hint: Use our Key Text and Resource List.
  You can discuss the concept of evidence-based practice and its importance in nursing. Provide one or two
  examples of evidence-based nursing interventions that have been shown to enhance patient care, such as
  the use of care bundles, patient education, and early intervention strategies.
  Evidence based Nursing Interventions
  In this section provide an academic argument and justification for each of your identified nursing
  interventions. Use literature from guidelines, publications, primary research articles to justify the
  intervention. The ‘why we are doing it?’.
  You can also critically analyse the strengths and weaknesses of your chosen nursing interventions in
  enhancing patient care. Discuss the challenges and barriers to implementing evidence-based nursing
  interventions in practice. Can you identify any strategies to overcome those challenges?
  You may wish to discuss any ethical, legal, or social issues that may arise from the implementation of
  these approaches. Consider the implications of these issues for nursing practice and patient outcomes.
  Multidisciplinary teamwork
  In this section, you can discuss the importance of effective teamwork in healthcare and the benefits of a
  multidisciplinary approach to patient care. What does national policy and government guidance say about
  integrated care delivery? Provide examples of how nurses work collaboratively with other healthcare
  professionals and their families to enhance patient care. Discuss the challenges and barriers to effective
  multidisciplinary teamwork in healthcare.
  Can you make the link between evidence-based nursing interventions and multidisciplinary teamwork? In
  this section, you can also discuss how evidence-based nursing interventions and effective
  multidisciplinary teamwork are interrelated.
  Conclusion
  Summarise the key points of the essay and provide some recommendations for enhancing patient care
  through evidence-based nursing interventions and effective multidisciplinary teamwork. Highlight the
  importance of ongoing research and evaluation in these areas to ensure that patient care continues to
  improve over time.
  No new information should be introduced here.
  Presentation of your work All submitted work should have:
• An appropriate font and size (eg Arial 12) which is legible.
• Headings in bold
• References in Harvard style
• Reference lists should be presented in alphabetical order
• Appendices, if used, should be in alphabetical order or numeric order (eg. Appendix A, B, C or 1, 2, 3)
• Numbered pages
• UW Student number on each page in footer or header
  Academic Convention
  Assignments should be supported by primary sources where possible. Use references from a range of
  appropriate academic and professional literature. If textbooks are used, they should be the most recent
  edition available. A complete reference list should be included at the end of the assignment or
  presentation slides.
  Your reading should be wider than the resource list so that your work represents your interpretation of
  many sources you have read and how they relate to your patient scenario and nursing practice.
  Quotes do not demonstrate your understanding of concepts and should only be used when paraphrasing
  might alter meaning (for example a definition). If quotes are used, they should support your discussion
  rather than be stated alone. Paraphrasing and synthesis of ideas is of greater academic value. Quotes
  longer than 3 or 4 lines should be rarely used, and if they are included, they must be indented and singlespaced.
  Harvard referencing guidance can be accessed at:
  https://library.worc.ac.uk/referencing
  The word count does not include reference lists or appendices but does include in-text citations.
  Work will only be marked up to the 10% excess point. This means if you write over 3,300 words, words
  after that will not be marked.
  For late submissions and mitigating circumstances, please refer to your course handbook – it is important
  that you understand the University regulations around submission of assignments.
  Confidentiality Confidentiality must be maintained. In compliance with the Data Protection Act (2018) and the
  Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC, 2018), this assignment must not contain any information that
  could identify patients, staff, placements or localities in either the main text or appendices. Further
  information about the Confidentiality Policy can be found in your course handbook or you can access it
  here.
  Referencing Trust
  Policies
  If a particular Trust policy is an integral part of your work, how you reference it will depend on whether it
  is publicly available or not. Please seek advice from the academic librarians on how to reference
  appropriately
  If the policy is publicly available on the World Wide Web, then it is acceptable to reference it by
  including the name of the Trust as the author.
  You should also ensure that you adhere to any other University of Worcester Harvard referencing
  guidance within your module and course handbooks.
  Late submission and
  Mitigating circumstances
  For late submissions and mitigating circumstances please refer to your course handbook.
  If you submit coursework late but within 7 days (one week) of the due date you will have your work
  marked but the grade will be capped at D- (recorded as L1 grade on SOLE). All assignments submitted
  later than 7 days (one week) will not be marked and a grade L2 will be recorded.
  You are expected to submit all assignments by the due date. If you have mitigating circumstances
  preventing you from meeting the due date you should submit a claim within 7 days of the due date. You
  will be expected to provide evidence to support the claim which covers the period immediately leading up
  to the assessment.
  PLEASE NOTE:
• You must submit all items of assessment for a module in order to pass.
• If you do not submit an item of assessment, you will automatically fail the module regardless of any
  overall mark achieved.
  Please liaise with the module lead in advance if there are any issues pertaining to this.
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  submission
  Formative sessions are incorporated throughout the timetable in the form on workshops. Individual
  assignment tutorials will not normally be available. Please use Ask the Team for any queries related to the
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