Instructions on Assessment:
Summative Assessment:
This will be electronic submission and feedback will be provided via Blackboard Ultra.
For this assessment you are required to write a 2000-word assignment analysing the role of the nurse in the delivery of key interventions for a patient with complex needs.
By doing this you will demonstrate your understanding of the need to provide contemporary and evidence-based nursing care for people with an identified acute, critical or chronic condition [ this can include an acute episode of a longstanding condition e.g. Diabetes Mellitus and Hypoglycaemia].
Your assignment should also reflect all the module learning outcomes.
(MLOs 1-5)
Mapping to Programme Goals and Objectives
Knowledge & Understanding:
- Demonstrate an understanding of co-morbidities and the demands of meeting peoples complex nursing and social care needs when prioritising care plans taking into consideration reasonable adjustments and mental capacity
- Understand and recognise the need to respond to the challenges of providing safe, effective and person-centred nursing care for people who have co-morbidities and complex care needs monitoring and evaluating the quality of experiences of complex care, facilitating the safe discharge and transition of people between caseloads, settings and services.
Intellectual / Professional Skills & Abilities:
- Demonstrate an understanding of research and other evidence and systematically evaluate its relevance to practice
Personal Values Attributes (Global / Cultural awareness, Ethics, Curiosity) (PVA):
- Demonstrate and understand the personal attributes and behaviours that promote effective team working within inter professional practice across diverse and complex environments, leveraging the commonalities among professionals
- Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of exercising political awareness to maximise the influence and effect of registered nursing on quality of care, patient safety and cost effectiveness.
ASSESSMENT REGULATIONS
You are advised to read the guidance for students regarding assessment policies. They are available online here
Academic Misconduct
The Assessment Regulations for Taught Awards (ARTA) contain the Regulations and procedures applying to cheating, plagiarism, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Systems, and other forms of academic misconduct.
The full policy is available here
You are reminded that plagiarism, collusion, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Systems, and other forms of academic misconduct, as referred to in the Academic Misconduct procedure of the assessment regulations, are taken very seriously. Assignments in which evidence of plagiarism or other forms of academic misconduct is found may receive a mark of zero.
Late submission of work
Where coursework is submitted without approval, after the published hand-in deadline, the following penalties will apply. For coursework submitted up to 1 working day (24 hours) after the published hand-in deadline without approval, 10% of the total marks available for the assessment (i.e.100%)shall be deductedfrom the assessment mark.
For clarity: a late piece of work that would have scored 65%, 55% or 45% had it been handed in on time will be awarded 55%, 45% or 35% respectively as 10% of the total available marks will have been deducted.
The Penalty does not apply to Pass/Fail Modules, i.e., there will be no penalty for late submission if assessments on Pass/Fail are submitted up to 1 working day (24 hours) afterthe published hand-in deadline.
Coursework submitted more than 1 day (24 hours) after the published hand-in deadline without approval will be marked as zero but will be eligible for referral. The reassessment should where appropriate, and as determined by the Module Leader, be the same method (e.g., essay) but maybe with a different task (e.g., different essay title) or with the same task (e.g., the same essay title) as indicated in the Module handbook.
In modules where there is more than one assessment component, Students are not required to complete all assessment components if an overall Pass Mark (40% UG, 50% PGT) has been achieved.
The only permitted exception will be in cases where the University is prevented from doing so by a PSRB requirement. In the case of PSRB requirements, a variation order will be required from the regulations.
In modules, where there is more than one assessment component and an overall pass mark has not been achieved, Students will be eligible for a referral* in the individual failed module and/or not attempted component(s) of assessment.
These provisions apply to all assessments, including those assessed on a Pass/Fail basis.
The full policy can be found here
Word limits
The word count is to be declared on the front page of your assignment and the assignment cover sheet. The word count does not include your reference list.
Please note, in text citations [e.g. (Smith, 2011)] and direct secondary quotations [e.g. dib-dab nonsense analysis (Smith, 2011 p.123)] are INCLUDED in the word count.
If this word count is falsified, students are reminded that under ARTA this will be regarded as academic misconduct.
For those assessments where students are required to keep to the word limit, it is proposed that they should be informed that the marker will stop reading at the point when they judge that the word limit exceeds the recommended word count by more than 10%. The marker will indicate the point at which they stop reading on the text.
Students must retain an electronic copy of this assignment (including ALL appendices) and it must be made available within 24hours of them requesting it be submitted.