ASSESSMENT INFORMATION
Assessment Title
Written Assignment
Purpose
This assessment will provide students with an opportunity to engage with a health consumer, to gain insight into the impact chronic illness and/or disability has on the consumers life, and to plan person-centered care in partnership with a consumer. Students will have the opportunity to apply specific frameworks to demonstrate critical thinking, clinical reasoning and the principles of caring for people with a chronic illness or disability. Written consent from your interviewee to conduct your interview is required.
Stream A Due Date
Wednesday, 24th March 2021
Stream B Due Date Wednesday, 5th May, 2021
Time Due
9am
Weighting
50%
Length
1750 words (+/- 10%; includes intext citations, excludes reference list)
Assessment Rubric
Appendix A of the NRSG372 unit outline
LEO Resource Written Assignment Unpacking video, NRSG372 LEO assessment tile
LOs Assessed
LO1, LO2, LO3, LO6
Task
You are required to conduct a phone or video call interview with a real person in your community who has a chronic illness or disability to discover the impact this has on their life. You will need to prepare for your interview. McGrath, Palmgren & Liljedahl (2019) suggest twelve steps for conducting research interviews; this article is linked on the NRSG372 reading list for Module one.
Identify two (2) care priorities for your interviewee. Present each priority using the Levett-Jones (2018) Clinical Reasoning Cycle, completing the cycle for each priority as outlined in the paragraph structure section of this document. For each priority, identify and rationalise where the person sits on the Roper-LoganTierney (RLT) model of nursing independence to dependence continuum. It is expected that appropriate evidence-based literature will be used to support your assignment.
Consent Form
You will need to gain written consent from your interviewee PRIOR to conducting your interview and inform your interviewee they may be called at random by the LIC to confirm consent. There must be evidence that you have interviewed (via phone or video call) a real person in your community, demonstrated by the consent form and unique circumstances outlined in your essay. If there is evidence that students have not conducted a genuine interview an NN grade for the assessment will be awarded.
Confidentiality must be maintained. You must de-identify your interviewee in your paper, by use of a pseudonym, and state this clearly in your paper. Any identifiable location, organisation, or workplace must be deidentified.
This assessment does not encourage you to diagnose conditions or suggest treatments to your interviewee.
Those under 18 years of age, carers, or currently enrolled students at Australian Catholic University, are not to be interviewed.
Students are not to approach strangers for interviews, or to put themselves into
situations of risk. Please be aware of the impact of conducting an interview on your interviewee. Should your interviewee become upset, please finish the Safety interview at that point, and contact the LIC for further advice.
Paragraph Structure
Introduction: Introduce the interviewee with a pseudonym (and clearly state it is a pseudonym), their health status and condition(s), introduce your two care priorities, outline the frameworks used, finishing with goals associated with each care priority with a focus on patient centred care. (max 10% of word count).
Para 1: What is your first priority? What information have you used to arrive at this? Where on the RLT dependence/independence continuum (by way of equipment, treatments, or interventions) Be specific and explain the priority in depth here.
Para 2: What will the consequences be if you do not address this as your priority? This is where you need to justify this being your priority- use evidence to support.
Para 3: What is your goal as the nurse in relation to the identified care priority? And what will your intervention be? You will need to substantiate this with evidence and a rationale and bring in the NSQHS partnering with consumers standard.
Para 4: What is your second priority? What information have you used to arrive at this? Where on the RLT dependence/independence continuum (by way of equipment, treatments, or interventions) Be specific and explain the priority in depth here.
Para 5: What will the consequences be if you do not address this as your priority? This is where you need to justify this being your priority- use evidence to support.
Para 6: What is your goal as the nurse in relation to the identified care priority? And what will your intervention be? You will need to substantiate this with evidence and a rationale and bring in the NSQHS partnering with consumers standard.
Conclusion: What have you done throughout the paper? What are the next steps? Evaluation of the interventions will demonstrate what? (max 10% of word count).
Submission
1. Consent Form is to be submitted to the “Assessment One Consent Form” LEO dropbox on your campus tile. Please ensure you submit to the dropbox assigned to your stream.
2. Written assignment is to be submitted to the “Assessment One Written Assignment” LEO dropbox on your campus tile. Please ensure you submit to the dropbox assigned to your stream.
FORMATTING
File format
.doc or .docx (not .pdf files)
Margins
2.54cm, all sides
Font and size
11-point Calibri or Arial
Spacing
1.5 spacing
Paragraph
Aligned to left margin, indent first line of each paragraph 1.27cm
Title Page
Not to be used
Level 1 Heading
Centered, bold, capitalize each word (14-point Calibri or Arial)
Level 2 Headings
Not to be used
Structure
Introduction, main paragraphs, conclusion, reference list
Direct quotes
Always require page number. No more than 10% of WC in direct quotes
Header
Page number top right corner (9 point Calibri or Arial)
Footer
Name – Student Number – Ax1 – NRG372 – 2021 (in 9 point Calibri or Arial)
REFRENCING
Referencing Style
APA 7th
Minimum References A minimum of 17 high quality resources are to be used.
Age of References
Published in the last 5 years as this area of knowledge is rapidly developing
List Heading
“References” is centered, bold, on a new page. (in 14 point Calibri or Arial)
Alphabetical Order
References are arranged alphabetically by author family name
Hanging Indent
Second and subsequent lines of a reference have a hanging indent
DOI
Presented as functional hyperlink
Spacing
Double spacing the entire reference list, both within and between entries
ADMINISTRATION
Late Penalties
Late penalties will be applied from 9:01am on the due date, incurring 5% penalty of the maximum marks available up to a maximum of 15%. Assessment tasks
received more than three calendar days after the due or exten receive feedback but will not not be allocated a mark.
Penalty Timeframe Penalty
09:01am Wednesday to 9am Thursday 5% penalty
09:01am Thursday to 9am Friday 10% penalty
09:01am Friday to 9am Saturday 15% penalty
Received after 09:01 Saturday No mark allocated
Example:
An assignment is submitted 12 hours late and is initially mark
100. A 5% penalty is applied (5% of 100 is 5 marks). Therefore, the student receives 55 out of 100 as a final mark. ded date will
Marks Deducted
5 marks
10 marks
15 marks
ed at 60 out of
Return of Marks
Marks will be generally returned in three weeks; if this is not achievable, you will be notified via your campus LEO forum.
Final Assignment
Marks for the final assessment (assessment two) of NRSG372 will be withheld until after grade ratification and grade release.
Assessment template project informed by ACU student forums, ACU Librarians and the Academic Skills Unit.
