Assessment Brief Outline

Assessment Brief Outline

Assessment Brief 22/23

Module Title: Managing Long Term Conditions

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Level: 7

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Assessment title: Critical Review of the evidence of the Management of Long-term Conditions, with a specific focus of one chosen condition

Mode of submission: This assessment should be submitted electronically via the assessment link on Blackboard.

Your submission should be referenced using the APA 6th Edition. Guidance on how to do this is available on the library gatewayYou should format your work using size 12 Cambria or Arial font. Your paragraphs should be formatted in 1.5 line spacing. Please include a front page detailing your name, module title and module leader and your word count.

Task details and instructions: You are required to produce a case study that demonstrates your critical appraisal skills in identifying and reviewing best evidence in the management of your chosen long-term condition in the local, national and global context. Within your case study you will be able to demonstrate how you will make informed judgements based on this evidence and how this will change or improve future practice. Within your case study you should.

Provide an introduction to a long-term condition that is relevant to your own area of practice that requires management, illustrating why it is relevant/important.

Identify, select and synthesise the information required to effectively assess, diagnosis, investigate and manage the patient with a long-term condition.

Justify effective and efficient patient management strategies utilising evidence-based practice, apply and justify appropriate methods for audit and clinical evaluation of services for people with long term condition

Critically reflect upon current theories and concepts underpinning professional practice and their clinical application in generic and specialist management of a variety of long-term conditions.

Critically discuss the structure, policies and wider context of chronic disease management and evaluate their impact on patients with these conditions.

Further information about the assessment can be found on the module Blackboard site, along with previous exemplar submissions that can guide you.

Module

learning outcomes: On successful completion of this assessment, you will be able to:

Module Learning Outcomes

1. Critically reflect upon current theories and concepts underpinning professional practice and their clinical application in generic and specialist management of a variety of long-term conditions.

2. Justify effective and efficient patient management strategies utilising evidence-based practice

3. # Critically evaluate the structure, policies and wider context of chronic disease management and appraise their impact on patients with these conditions.

Guidance linked to grid Marks for your assessment will be allocated based on the following criteria

Subject Knowledge and Understanding

To complete this element successfully you need to.

Demonstrate your ability to apply current theories and concepts that underpin the management of your chosen long-term condition across the local, national and global context of the management of chronic diseases and long-term conditions.

Intellectual Skills: including understanding, judgement, analysis, evaluation and synthesis

To complete this element successfully you need to

Demonstrate some critical analysis and critical evaluation as well as synthesising your knowledge of the evidence-base to make informed judgements.

Subject specific skills and application to practice

To complete this element successfully you need to ..Apply the theories and concepts to your practice, as well as being able to articulate future recommendations to inform your practice. You should apply current policies at the local, national and global levels and critically discuss their impact on the patients as well as the management of long-term conditions

Transferable skills: including communication, presentation and organisation, dissemination

To complete this element successfully you need to .

Ensure organisation and presentation is evident in the work and that all guidance has been followed. Demonstrate a satisfactory level of skill in relation to sentence structure and grammar.

Weighting within module: This assessment is worth 100% of the overall module mark.

Word count/ duration (if applicable) The assignment should be 5000 words in length. This word limit relates to the word count given by the word count tool in Microsoft Word and should be included at the end of the document before the reference list. Work that is >10% over the word limit will be penalised by 10% of the available marks, i.e. you would lose 10 marks on this assessment task. Note that all text, apart from the list of references at the end of a document and text in appendices, is included in the word count.

Follow guidance above on what is to be included in the appendices. Please note that appendices should not be used as a mechanism to expand the volume or length of an assessment task.

Marking You should refer to the assessment criteria on the module Blackboard Module site.

As a guide you should consider allocating approximately one third of your word count on the identification, selection and synthesise of the information required to effectively assess, diagnosis, investigate and manage the patient with a long-term condition.

Feedback arrangements: You can expect to receive feedback within 15 working days

All marks and feedback are internally moderated and a sample is seen by the external examiner

Academic Misconduct

Academic misconduct is any action, attempted action or omission that may result in you gaining an unfair advantage over other students in an assessment, where there is evidence to demonstrate that your actions or behaviour arose from an intention to deceive the marker. It is a breach of the Code of Academic Conduct and as such will be investigated under the Academic Conduct Regulation. It is a serious matter and has the potential to result in a number of sanctions which could impact on your ability to progress academically. Further information on misconduct can be found by typing Academic Misconduct into the search tab in Blackboard.

Breaches of confidentiality and unethical practices

The University takes this very seriously and failure to follow confidentiality, anonymity, or follow research ethics protocols can result in a student having to go before an Academic Conduct Panel. You must not disclose the name of any patients/ service users, Trusts or other organisations, personnel or disclose any information that would mean an organisation, service or person can be identified.

Professionally regulated programmes: In any assignment a failure to identify a serious problem or an answer that would cause patient/client harm will result in a cause for concern and may impact on your final mark

Assessment Information

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