Identify a relevant issue in practice nursing and which will be focused on a subject area over the five taught days of this module, critically evaluate the implications for practice development and how you can facilitate change within the general practice setting.

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Concepts of practice nursing

Assessment Details

You are required to complete a 3000 word essay.  Any tables of content, figures within the text, complete references and appendices[1] are not included in your word count.

You will be expected to identify a relevant issue in practice nursing, critically evaluate the implications for practice development and how you as a Practice Nurse can facilitate change within the general practice setting. This essay will provide you an opportunity to demonstrate your knowledge and to relate how health policy has been a catalyst for change in the primary care setting. You will be expected to identify a relevant issue in practice nursing and which will be focused on a subject area over the five taught days of this module, critically evaluate the implications for practice development and how you can facilitate change within the general practice setting. Detailed guidance will be provided by the module leader during the module. Detailed guidance will be provided by the module leader during the module.

Evaluate the principles and theories/styles of leadership and management and management and change to determine their relevance to the care setting and the provision of healthcare services. Critically analyse the National, political and local drivers for leadership and change management, change agents, barriers/resistance, quality and safety, the quality assurance, clinical governance and risk management strategies, NICE and their relevance to the clinical setting.

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Clinical practice experience

Critically evaluate a management and/or leadership issue with reference to recent clinical practice experience. The essay should include reference to current national policy and guidance relating to practice.

Introduction (400 words):
-Identify the leadership or management issue that forms the focus of this assignment.
-Outline the importance of this issue in terms of current national policy and legislation related to practice. (LO4)

Main body PART ONE (1000 words):
-Evaluate a range of theoretical principles and processes associated with modern leadership or management to your chosen practice based example. (LO1, LO2)

Main body PART TWO (1000 words):
-Identify and critically analyse the evidence that underpins the practice issue being discussed. (LO5)

Main body PART THREE (1200 words):
-Critically analyse the leadership or management approach that was taken or that could be taken to address this identified situation, including risk management and National Quality Assurance strategies. (LO3)

-Additionally, you should focus on your role and the role of the nurse in leading or managing the identified issue – teamwork, inter- professional learning, self-development – and the impact on practice for patients and colleagues. (LO6)

Learning Outcomes (LO):
1. Evaluate the principles and theories/styles of leadership and management and management and change to determine their relevance to the care setting and the provision of healthcare services.

2. Evaluate the concepts and processes of leadership and management, management of change in relation to the delivery of healthcare and professional practice.

3. Critically analyse the National, political and local drivers for leadership and change management, change agents, barriers/resistance, quality and safety, the quality assurance, clinical governance and risk management strategies, NICE and their relevance to the clinical setting.

4. Analyse and apply legislation and policy on the provision of healthcare in England and Wales and reflect on the implications for professional practice.

5. Analyse research and other evidence and justify healthcare decisions, even when made on the basis of limited information and engage in legally and ethically defensible practice.

6. Criticallyanalysetheconceptofteam working/leadership, inter-professional working and its application to their own, and others’ practice and the continuing development of knowledge & lifelong learning

How can Mental Health nurses support patients’ emotional needs developed from Adverse Child Experiences?

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Adverse Child Experiences

How can Mental Health nurses support patients’ emotional needs developed from Adverse Child Experiences?

Write a concise report of 1250 words therefore, total word allowance is 2,500. You may use sub-headings to structure your report. Provide an overview of the professional issues raised in the scenario and outline the potential impact of these on patient outcome supported by relevant contemporary evidence. Critically discuss with rationale how you would respond to this scenario demonstrating safe and effective practice in line with The Code (NMC 2018).

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Nursing workbook

Welcome to NURS 1450 Leadership and Management in Adult Nursing

You are about to qualify as an adult nurse which is a complex and diverse field of nursing.  The scenarios in this workbook provide you with the opportunity to apply knowledge of professional issues to realistic scenarios that you may face in the workplace.

It is important that you discuss and relate leadership and management styles and other relevant material taught in the module within these scenarios. You are advised to refer and include the NHS Leadership Model. You may also wish to link the impact of COVID 19 to the issues you discuss in the workbook.

These scenarios relate to the following professional issues:

  1. Care and compassion (compulsory)
  2. Time Management and prioritisation (option A)
  3. Risk management (option B)
  4. Safeguarding (option C)

You should complete two reports centred around a discussion of the professional issue in relation to the outlined scenario.  Professional issue 1. Care and compassion is compulsory, you may choose 1 other and for each:

  • Write a concise report of 1250 words therefore, total word allowance is 2,500. You may use sub-headings to structure your report.
  • Provide an overview of the professional issues raised in the scenario and outline the potential impact of these on patient outcome supported by relevant contemporary evidence.
  • Critically discuss with rationale how you would respond to this scenario demonstrating safe and effective practice in line with The Code (NMC 2018).
  • You should discuss related professional issues such as leadership, accountability, confidentiality and the patient experience.
  • You should discuss practice implications in relation to relevant national or professional guidance and policy
  • You may provide one reference list for both reports.

 

You should refer to additional guidance provided by the Module leader in the assignment preparation sessions on the Module and on the Module Moodle shell.

Indicate the reasons and evidence for the argument. Discuss the reasons and evidence against the argument. Summarise both points of view and discuss and explain your own viewpoint.

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Critical and reflect on teaching session provided

The advanced method is a persuasive approach that uses your argument as the starting point and has been adapted for ease of use as follows:

1.Start by introducing generally and express your point of view.

2.Explain your rational for the argument

3.Explain the reasons against the argument

The summary

  1. Start by introducing the argument to the reader and its importance
  2. Indicate the reasons and evidence for the argument.
  3. Discuss the reasons and evidence against the argument.
  4. Summarise both points of view and discuss and explain your own viewpoint.

If you struggle with knowing a clear process of building your work you may wish to consider an eight-stage approach to building critical appraisal skills in our writing developed by the author:

Stage 1: Explore the evidence: following your literature review, identify other people’s positions, lines of argument and conclusions.

Stage 2: Using a critical review framework (The CASP, Critical Appraisal Tool is useful, www.casp-uk.net) evaluate the evidence by weighing up opposing arguments and evidence, read between the lines and identify false or biased assumptions.

Stage 3: Examine the bias of opinion and the use of persuasive techniques.

Stage 4: Reflect on issues in a structured way, bringing logic and insight to the forefront of your discussion points.

Stage 5: Draw conclusions about the validity and reliability and justifiability of arguments based on good evidence and supportive ideas.

Stage 6: In academic writing we need to consider if we have explored the whole picture and not just one point of view.

Stage 7: Present your points in a structured, clear and convincing format that appears rational i.e.: we need to identify the reasons for what we believe and do and consider other people’s reasoning.

Stage 8:  Importantly we need to reach conclusions on what we have read, to voice our opinion and look at the impact of knowledge and ideas for practice.

Discuss issues with opioid prescriptions and how it threatens patient safety. Discuss ways to combat this issue including healthcare communication to increase patient safety. Peer reviewed references no older than 5 years.

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Patient Safety with Opioid Prescriptions

Discuss issues with opioid prescriptions and how it threatens patient safety. Discuss ways to combat this issue including healthcare communication to increase patient safety. Peer reviewed references no older than 5 years.

Using a critical incident approach critically appraise applicable infection prevention and control protocols, taking account of contemporary issues and debates in this field.

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Infection Prevention Control

Using a critical incident approach critically appraise applicable infection prevention and control protocols, taking account of contemporary issues and debates in this field.

Your essay should be structured in a formal academic manner with an Introduction, Main Body discussion and Conclusions, followed by a Reference List and (if necessary) Appendices. The Reference List and any Appendices are excluded from the word count.

Do inpatients whose healthcare team practices shift huddles than those who do not stay safer throughout their hospitalization? Provide a synopsis of the review of the research literature. Using the “Literature Evaluation Table,” determine the level and strength of the evidence for each of the eight research articles you have selected.

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Topic: Impact of Communication on Patient’s Safety

PICOT Question: Do inpatients whose healthcare team practices shift huddles than those who do not stay safer throughout their hospitalization?

Assessment Description

In nursing practice, accurate identification and application of research is essential to achieving successful outcomes. The ability to articulate research data and summarize relevant content supports the student’s ability to further develop and synthesize the assignments that constitute the components of the capstone project.

The assignment will be used to develop a written implementation plan.

For this assignment, provide a synopsis of the review of the research literature. Using the “Literature Evaluation Table,” determine the level and strength of the evidence for each of the eight research articles you have selected. The articles should be current (within the last 5 years) and closely relate to the PICOT question developed earlier in this course. The articles may include quantitative research, descriptive analyses, longitudinal studies, or meta-analysis articles. A systematic review may be used to provide background information for the purpose or problem identified in the proposed capstone project.

APA style is required for the body of this assignment and solid academic writing is expected, and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

Demonstrate a critical awareness of the professional and leadership relevance of group clinical supervision. Identify and critically discuss the main themes that emerged from a case discussed in Adult Group Clinical Supervision and relate these to promoting and developing resilience in care provision. Analyse aspects of their own learning and develop the ability to reflect and be reflexive through the process of group clinical supervision.

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Reflection, Leadership and Learning

Group Clinical Superviion (GCS)

Learning Outcomes

The learning outcomes that should be addressed by this assignment are :

  1. Demonstrate a critical awareness of the professional and leadership relevance of group clinical supervision.
  2. Identify and critically discuss the main themes that emerged from a case discussed in Adult Group Clinical Supervision and relate these to promoting and developing resilience in care provision.
  3. Analyse aspects of their own learning and develop the ability to reflect and be reflexive through the process of group clinical supervision.

 

  • Reflection is an important and powerful strategy for you to use to develop your professional practice. It enables the linking of practice experience with theoretical aspects of learning to help you to develop, moving from novice to skilled practitioner.
  • Reflection should enhance self-awareness, identifying personal strengths and the areas to focus on for development. Theory helps to direct that new learning by providing relevant knowledge.  Critically viewing both ourselves and new knowledge is very important.
  • Consider the knowledge that you have acquired, the skills you have developed and feelings you have about different situations that you have encountered and about your own development.

 

To address learning outcomes 1 and 3 it is important that you clearly indicate whether group clinical supervision has assisted you to develop a deeper understanding of practice situations and how this may have improved your practice and helped optimise patient outcomes.

Does prolonged wearing of PPE gowns for direct nursing care of civid-19 patients negatively influence nurses’ health and professional practice?

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Nurses’ health and professional practice

Does prolonged wearing of PPE gowns for direct nursing care of covid-19 patients negatively influence nurses’ health and professional practice?