NUR6065 nursing care Assignment help

1. NUR6065 Assessment overview and top tips Essay title: An exploration of the care and management of a patient with complex health needs. Introduction Your introduction should ‘set the scene’ for the marker, by succinctly signposting the explicit focus for each learning task; however, this does not mean that you would just reword the Learning Outcomes of the module. You should outline the chosen condition that will be the focus for your assignment (Colorectal Cancer (CRC) or Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)) and briefly summarise the key topics and the purpose of the assignment, which will be epidemiology, a specific aspect of nursing care, and an aspect of interprofessional working. The chosen condition should be the focus for your entire assignment (do not switch between CRC and TBI). Usually, an introduction is no more than 5-10% of the total word count. Epidemiology The main body of your assignment should start with a critical discussion of the epidemiology of CRC or TBI. By definition, this will require analysis of the evidence for the nature, spread, and possible causes of the chosen condition. In this section overall include a brief consideration of the bioscientific basis of the chosen condition. You may want to put this at the start to provide some context for the subsequent epidemiological discussion. Epidemiology is concerned with the distribution of a disease/condition in a population, and therefore your discussion may include global, national, and/or local incidence and prevalence of your chosen condition. This would be a great opportunity to start appreciating how critical analysis can be embedded in your assignment. Epidemiology is concerned also with determinants of a disease/condition and other health related outcomes. Therefore, this is where you will be able to demonstrate your understanding and critical appraisal of the evidence of factors including causation, association, risk factors, or factors that contribute to a risk of CRC or TBI. This section should conclude with a critical exploration of actual and potential impact and implications of the chosen condition on an individual, their family, and wider society. Care and management This part of the assignment focuses on the evidence-based care and management for someone with CRC or TBI. To meet the requirements of the learning task, you are required to evaluate how you would assess, manage and deliver high quality care within an interdisciplinary context. Here are the topics from the taught content of the module (in class, online and asynchronous) that can be integrated into your discussion: - - - - Agitation Communication Nausea and vomiting Neutropenia

2. - - - Sepsis Raised Intracranial Pressure (ICP) Rehabilitation Hopefully you will see from this list, that there is a relationship between these topics and therefore, the potential to integrate a couple (or more) topics to create an interesting and informative discussion about current, realistic and relevant research and evidenced-based clinical practice. As you will see from the module content, interprofessional working covers a variety of specialities and clinical settings and should be a feature of every patient’s journey. Therefore, this can be readily incorporated into your assignment. Here are some examples: - - - - - - Clinical Nurse Specialists Critical Care Outreach Specialist Nurse for Organ Donation Palliative Care Neuro Critical Care Rehabilitation Conclusion A conclusion should wrap up all your main points – so the conclusions that you have made from your critical discussions from each section. No new information in a conclusion! Usually, a conclusion is no more than 5-10% of the total word count.

3. Assignment structure – practical planning You have 3000 words to write (up to 3300 with 10% allowance). It may seem a lot, but once you start to write, you may find it more difficult to try and fit everything in. Therefore, a key part of writing your assignment is the planning stage. There are three things to consider: 1.What do you want to write about? These are the topics that interest you the most, and that you understand. Don’t choose a topic just because your friends are choosing that one, or you think it might be easier without having an appreciation for the literature or content to be discussed. Some students will choose a topic based on personal interest, previous clinical experience, or because they see it as valuable for their future career – all valid, intrinsic motivations. Whatever the reason, choosing a topic that is interesting to you, may help more engaged and interested with writing your assignment which in turn could lead to a more successful assessment. 2.What do you need to write about? This is meeting the assignment brief. You need to address all elements of the MAID – the learning tasks, and the requirement for sufficient bioscientific knowledge, and critical analysis. 3.What can you write about? This is where word count and style of writing come into play - everyone has a different writing style, some people can write very concisely and precisely, while others will have a more verbose (wordy) style. You cannot go over 3300 words so you may need to be strategic with what you want to write about (see no.1). Supposing an introduction is about 250 words, and a conclusion is about the same. You cannot write an introduction or a conclusion until you know what will be in your essay, so ignore them until afterwards (write them after you have finished everything else). That leaves you with 2500 words in the main body of your essay. A good paragraph is 200 - 300 words. So, as you have 3000 words, you have about 10x300 word paragraphs to write (approximately, not necessarily literally). When phrased like this, suddenly 3000 words does not seem a lot! Each paragraph needs to be about something - really, just one thing, properly explored. So, you need to have 10 (or 12) things to say in your essay. This means that each sentence in a paragraph should be adequately structured so that you can reach your main point of that paragraph by the end.

4. 10 steps to write your assignment: 1.Choose a focus for each learning task that is relevant to one of the conditions (do not panic if you have not decided just yet, you might change your mind as we progress through the module anyway!) 2.Do some reading around the topic – start on Moodle, look at the module reading list via the library, and do some of your literature searching. This will often be the longest step. Remember part of the marking criteria is demonstrating how widely you have read. Do not include references if you have not read past the abstract, this is poor academic practice, and writing, and may be obvious when your marker checks your reference lists and discovers that the article you have referenced says something entirely different to what you are claiming! 3.Once you have chosen your focus for each of the learning tasks, think about what your main point/argument/conclusion is for each one. 4.Write these down as 4 separate sentences. 5.Write 10-12 sentences that will help you reach your desired point for each learning task. 6.Those 10-12 sentences are the basis for your paragraphs, so now you need to think of how best to build your arguments/points/conclusions so that these messages are clear to your reader (marker!) 7.Add your introduction and conclusion (see below for further guidance on these). 8.Proof-read carefully and thoroughly. This is not just about checking for spelling and grammar mistakes; proof-reading is important to ensure your intended meaning is clear. At this point it is a useful idea to look back at your plan, and the assessment tasks to see if your assignment is aligned to the assessment tasks. Using an immersive reader such as ‘Read Aloud’ on Microsoft Word can be really helpful with this step. 9.Consider the marking criteria – a pass is 40-100% so choosing appropriate topics to write about is important, but how well you write about them, the accuracy, comprehension, depth, detail, discussion, analysis, and application to the condition is what will influence your overall mark. 10.Check your references follow the BCU Harvard referencing convention. Mistakes in referencing, such as lack of appropriate acknowledgement or plagiarism by misattribution (see point 2 above) are all significant concerns when writing at this level of academic study.

5. Introduction An assignment introduction has a job to do. It is a simple job. When it is done well, it enhances the essay because it contributes to the overall structure and organisation. So, what does make a good introduction? - Your assignment introduction should make it clear what your argument will be, specific to the focus you have chosen. A very straightforward sentence beginning "It will be argued...", "This essay will demonstrate...", or “The focus of this assignment is...” can be used introduce your argument. - The introduction is a signpost for your marker of the content to follow, which again is why we are suggesting that you write it after you’ve finished the rest of your assignment so that you can be sure what you have said in your introduction is present in the subsequent writing. - This is the first impression that your marker will see – so start well and start strong. Convince them of the importance of the topics you are considering. If there are careless mistakes in the introduction, it may make your marker think ‘what else have they been careless with?’ Conclusion Guess what? Your conclusion is another important paragraph that has a simple job to do. We can split that job into three parts, and since two of them are the same as the introduction, you can see that the conclusion will be rather like the introduction, which is partly why it makes sense to write them both at the same time. Job one: Link back to the question/title. Remind the reader what the essay set out to achieve. Job two: Summarise the main points of your paragraphs. No new points, no new detail, just remind the reader what they read and the things you said about why it matters. Job three: For this assignment the conclusion is the synopsis and demonstration of your understanding of evidence-based nursing care for the chosen condition. You want the marker to put down your essay and think "Right! This essay has been an outstanding, well-organised and structured assignment, which has effectively communicated well-supported comprehension of complex ideas and applied critical thinking throughout!"