HEA8101 Assessment Item 2 Case Study Report

Assessment name

HEA8101 Assessment Item 2 Case Study Report

Brief task description

Case Study: An older persons care event (falling short of quality, safe care) and influences on practice

Rationale for assessment task

Assessment 2 Case Study assists you to develop the knowledge and skill to improve the professional care of older people and their family, by critically analysing a case study within a broader social, cultural, historical and political context to direct reform and improvements to care. Assessment 2 will assist you to develop the

Due Date

Due by 23rd May 2023, by 2355hrs AEST

Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST)

Length

2000 words (+- 10%) Word length includes in-text referencing and excludes your reference list and appendices

Marks out of:

Weighting:

Marks: 50

Weighting: 50% weighting of overall course

Course Objectives measured

1, 2, 3,4 & 5

Graduate Attributes 1, 2, 4, 5 & 6.

Exemplar/Example provided

Example of assessment is not available as this Assessment Item is new.

Task detail

Assessment 2 Case Study Report: Older person care event (falling short of quality, safe care) and influences on practice

**Make sure you use choose a different client to Assessment 1 for the focus of this Assessment

Background Information

Critically analysing older peoples care experiences within a broader social, cultural, historical and political context is useful in raising our conscious awareness of different influences that impact care that may be hidden from our view. This raised awareness about these aspects of care improves our understanding as nurses and assist us in directing action strategies that can improve care of older people and their family from a multi-leveled approach.

Instructions:

1. Write a 2000-word report that critically analyses a Case Study within your clinical practice that you have identified as falling short of quality, safe care. This analysis is retrospective, to enable you to explore the various aspects and influences (historical, social, cultural factors and perspectives, challenges and issues), impacting the care practice of this older person.

2. The following information is provided to assist you in structure of the essay and to guide writing the critical analysis.

Structure Report

Title Page

Table of Contents

Introduction (One paragraph)

Thesis statement.

Introduce your older person (do not use real names).

Orientate the reader to what you will be writing about (include main points).

For example, you may like to introduce your client this way: A fragile 89-year-old Caucasian male, living in a private Residential Aged Care Facility (RACF) in Western suburbs of Sydney had a suspected Urinary Tract Infection (UTI). Etc...).

Body (Eight paragraphs the following is a guide only)

Include a brief history (as relevant to the case study and situation).

Provide brief details about the care that was provided for that situation.

Provide details about the rationale for that particular care practice for the client.

Describe what happened during the clients care that you identified as being a concern and or problematic?

Provide details of how you evaluated that care practice to form a judgment that the care fell short of quality, safe care

Describe and critically analyse the historical, social, and cultural factors that influence this care practice?

How did the care practice/situation, impact on the client, family, department, organisation and nursing profession? (What were the issues and challenges?)

Who benefited and or was disadvantaged by the practice?

Detail the power relations between these groups?

Provide quality improvement strategies that can improve the care of your client and their family specifically, and generally for older people, from a multi-leveled approach (patient/individual level; departmental level; organisational level; & Governance level).

Provide justification for these quality improvement strategies.

Please ensure your written statements within your body paragraphs are supported by reference to relevant literature.

Conclusion (One paragraph)

Include a summary and link back to:

Thesis statement

Include overview of main points and synthesis of ideas by linking all concepts and elements together.

Recommendations

Include a set of recommendations (QI strategies) to improve care.

These need to be multileveled inclusive of: (patient/individual/family; ward/unit//department; organisation; and environment levels.

Writing Style

1. Correct Academic Writing as per USQ guidelines

2. Your assignment should be completed in Word format.

3. Include your name, student number and page number in the footer.

4. Write in the third person.

Do not attach the marking rubric

Referencing/ citations

1. APA 7th Edition Referencing

2. In-text citation is required

3. A full reference list is required at the end of the assignment

For further information on APA 7th edition referencing at

https: //lor.usq.edu.au/usq/file/04aca4f5-1761-4c52-92be-f08e71a0b207/1/APA SEVEN Referencing Guide.pdf

- Contemporary literature must be sourced (no more than 7 years old; seminal literature acceptable)

Formatting Style

Essay formatting style: This includes:

1st line of each paragraph is indented; Margins: 2cm on 4 sides; & Double-spacing line spacing (2 line spacing); Font size: 12 Times New Roman Times, no subheadings, include page numbers

Resources available to complete task

USQ academic writing is provided in links on the course Resources Tab.

https://www.usq.edu.au/library/study-support/assignments

Referencing

https://www.usq.edu.au/library/referencing

Extension Requests

Extension online application https://usqassist.custhelp.com/app/forms/deferred_assessment

Late Submissions Penalty

Please refer to the link on late submission of assessment items and penalties applied Late Submissions of Assignments 4.2.4

http://policy.usq.edu.au/documents/14749PL#4.4

Penalty is 5% of the total mark, per business day.

What you need to submit

Submission requirements

1. On a word document include your name and student number.

2. On this same word document, insert page numbers

3. Adherence to the stated word limit is required

4. All parts of the assessment should be attempted

This assessment task must:

Use APA 7for citing academic literature

Be submitted in electronic format as Microsoft Word document via the online submission link on the HEA8101 Study Desk, located under the Assessment tab Assessment 2 Item.

Turnitin (text matching software)

submission requirements

Turnitin Text matching from intellectual sources software

Please note, when submitting your assignment as a word document, it will be automatically checked via Turnitin.

Submitting through Turnitin is required before final submission.

The Turnitin process may take up to 24 hours to produce a report. Therefore, allow adequate time to do this and address any issues of text matching in your essay detected by Turnitin before final submission.

*Any percentage that relates to content text matching in your essay detected by Turnitin is a concern and requires you to address this.

The following link provides information on Turnitin (sourced from USQ learning centre). There is a drop-down box that you can click. From this, you will be able to view a variety of questions and answers that will help most queries. https://www.usq.edu.au/learningcentre/usqstudydesk-skills/turnitin

File Name Conventions

Save your document with the following naming conventions: surname_initialORstudentnumber_HEA8101_A1.doc

Moderation

All staff who are assessing your work meet to discuss and compare grading decisions before marks or grades are finalised.

Academic Integrity Statement

The USQ policy on Academic Integrity can be found on the link below:

https://policy.usq.edu.au/documents/14133PL