2807NRS Essay Planning Guide
2807NRS Essay Planning Guide
* This is a guide only and you should regularly refer to the task description and marking criteria to ensure you have met the required criteria for this task.
Approved Headings Introduction Introduce your essay. Tell the reader what to expect and in what order. Provide the aim, context and name of your patient.
Health Concern Clearly identify one (1) potential health concern for the client and discuss why this is a health concern
This is a concern that the patient is at risk of (potential concern)
E.g. an asthmatic patient may have several concerns such as: ability to manage an acute asthma attack, or severe illness resulting from a simple chest infection
Health Promotion Education Session Identify one (1) culturally appropriate topic for a client health promotion education session that would address the identified health concern.
Identify a topic that would be appropriate to address the health concern
Make sure it is culturally appropriate (consider the patients culture)
Using Asthma as an example this would be something like: correct use of inhaled medication or how to manage an exacerbation of symptoms using an asthma management plan
Describe one specific, culturally appropriate health promotion activity that the RN could use to enable the client to modify/change their behaviour
How is the education delivered?
What makes this suitable for your client?
Discuss how the education session could be structured including type of method/tool used, setting for the health promotion activity, resources needed and participants to be involved
Identify what tools you would use (see topics 2.2 and 2.3 on course site where several are listed)
You may wish to combine the use of several tools for one session
You need to describe how the session would take place, who is involved, the location of the session, what resources would be used etc
Remember to come from the point of view of the RN in an acute setting (Ms Hernandez) or a community health role (Mr Bonner).
Justification Justify chosen education activity by providing rationales for the education session including method/tool used, setting for the health promotion activity, resources needed and participants to be involved
Include here discussion on why your activity would be effective
Use literature to support your chosen tools and activity
Explain how the topic addresses the health concern for the client and discuss how the topic will assist the client to self-manage their chronic condition and optimise their health
Use literature to support why Health Promotion on this topic is shown to be effective at reducing complications of the illness and empowering clients to manage their condition
Recent, scholarly literature used to support discussion
Conclusion
Summarise the assignment. All key elements of assignment included in conclusion.
No new information introduced here.
2807NRS Essay Planning Template
*Please use this template to assist in planning your 2807NRS Essay
Approved Headings Use this template to help design and plan your essay
Introduction Health Concern Clearly identify one (1) potential health concern for the client and discuss why this is a health concern
Health Promotion Education Session Identify one (1) culturally appropriate topic for a client health promotion education session that would address the identified health concern.
Describe one specific, culturally appropriate health promotion activity that the RN could use to enable the client to modify/change their behaviour, supported by recent, scholarly literature
Discuss how the education session could be structured including type of method/tool used, setting for the health promotion activity, resources needed and participants to be involved, supported by recent, scholarly literature
Justification Justifies chosen education activity by providing rationales for the education
session structure, method and resources described above
Explain how the topic addresses the health concern for the client and discuss how the topic will assist the client to self-manage their chronic condition and optimise their health;
Recent, scholarly literature used to support discussion
Conclusion
