3805NRS Health & Illness in the Older Person

3805NRS Health & Illness in the Older Person

Assessment 3: Creative Synthesis Poster & Presentation

Word Count: 1500 words (50%)

Due Date: Week 12, Wednesday October 9th, 5pm

AIM:

Registered nurses work with individuals, groups, and communities to improve health. One way to do this is to analyse how risks to health can be reduced during changes to natural, social and/ or governmental elements in our society. As clinical leaders, registered nurses are expected to collect information about an emerging health risk from a variety of sources and collate this information into a meaningful analysis with recommendations for a specific audience. The audience for these analyses can be the public, older people or carers of older people, or nurses working in a range of practice contexts.

The ability of registered nurses to communicate and educate using a variety of methods is an important skill and responsibility. This assignment provides an opportunity to engage in a patient education exercise commonly used by registered nurses, by developing a risk reduction poster for an identified health risk to older people, targeted at a particular audience, supported by an evidence-based written justification.This task is aligned to Learning Outcomes 1, 2 and 3.

TASK DESCRIPTION:

There are two parts to this assignment. You must complete both parts.

Part 1 involves you in selecting/justifying the choice of a health risk to older people and creating a one-sided A4 size poster (300 words) designed to educate a chosen audience (select one - patients or families or staff) about that risk and recommend evidence-based nursing interventions.

Part 2 is a written justification (1200 words) that includes evidence that justifies the information contained in the poster.

The total word allocation for this assignment is 1500 words.

WHAT TO INCLUDE IN YOUR POSTER AND JUSTIFICATION?

Part 1 - On your poster you must:

Identify a health risk for a specific older adult population (aged over 65 years or over 50 years if Australias First People),and

Recommend and justify the nursing interventions for older people diagnosed with, or at risk of, complex health conditions and/or cognitive decline associated with your selected health risk, and

Identify changes in the environment (natural, social, and governmental) that put at risk the health of older people.

Part 2 In your justification you must:

Provide a discussion of the rationale and supporting evidence for the selection of the health risk in the specified older adult population, and

Justify your selection of the audience, included content, implications for nursing care related to change in environment, and the relevancy of selected poster features for your target audience, and

Evaluate the implications for nursing care related to changes in the environment (natural, social, and governmental) that have an impact on the health of older people.

Instructions for poster & written justification presentation and formatting:

The poster must be one A4 page and maybe portrait or landscape.

Follow the YouTube video guidelines provided for creating your poster on your CANVAS course site.

Font must be greater than, or equal to,10-pointfont.

The poster must contain the students name and student ID number.

Sources for images not taken by the author must be shown.

The poster must allow at least a 1 cm margin from each edge of the slide.

References for in-text citations must be presented in a final reference list at the end of the written justification.

There is no need to present your reference list on the poster.

The assignment submission Poster & Written Justification must be uploaded as a PDF document (saves formatting).

Follow the YouTube video guidelines for saving your assignment as a PDF format.

The poster and written justification must be collated into one document before submission upload.

Other Elements:

Present your work according to Academic standards: Always refer totheGriffith Health Writing and Referencing Guide.

Use academic language and health specific terminology throughout.

You may use headings to organise your work.

Use thethird personin your writing.

Refer to the marking guidelineswhen writing your assignment. This will assist you in calculating the weightings of the sections for your assignment.

It is important that you maintain confidentiality as peruniversity guidelinesand include no identifying demographic information about patients, colleagues, or institutions. Please use pseudonyms.

A minimum of ten (10) different sourcesfrom the scholarly literature should informyourposter / written justification.

Ensure that you use scholarly literature(digitised readings, research articles,relevant Government reports andtextbooks) that has been predominantly published within the last5 years [2018-2023].

Include your references on a new page, correctly formatted as per APA7and theGriffith Health Writing and Referencing Guide

Youdo notneed to submitaUniversityAssignment Coversheet.

Complete theElectronic cover sheetafter which the Final submission point will appear.

Youdoneed to include a correctly formatted title page -State youractualword count(excluding your reference list) on the AssignmentTitle Page(refer to theGriffith Health Writing and Referencing Guide).

Save in multiple places.

Submityourassessmentelectronically via Learning@Griffith

Markers will stop marking your assignment once the word limit is reached.