NUR3605 Leadership, Governance and Culture

Assessment Brief

School of Nursing and Midwifery

Why am I doing this assessment?

This assignment will help you to understand and demonstrate the following unit learning outcomes (ULO):

1. Critique best practice principles for governance in the clinical environment.

1. Explain the roles of nurses and other health professionals in implementing quality improvement methodologies.

1. Examine how the National Safety and Quality Health Service standards govern clinical practice.

By completing these ULOs, you are demonstrating that you are working towards the following course learning outcomes (CLOs) and therefore, the related professional standards:

• CLO2: Critically analyse, interpret and conceptualise complex nursing practice.

• CLO4: Access, evaluate and synthesise relevant information from multiple sources using digital technologies to inform nursing practice.

• CLO5: Independently communicate nursing knowledge, concepts and values clearly and coherently.

The following course learning outcome/s will also be consolidated in this unit:

• CLO6: Demonstrate a global outlook with respect for cultural diversity, including Indigenous cultural competence.

• CLO8: Demonstrate autonomy, accountability and judgement for own learning and professional nursing practice in accordance with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia standards for practice.

Employability skills addressed

Select all that apply

Assessment Task Instructions

The assessment instructions have been designed to enable you to understand what is required to succeed in this assignment.

The aim of this Assignment is to use a quality improvement methods and clinical risk management frameworks to provide a report detailing your recommendations for a change in practice.

• Step 1:Read the attached From Death We Learn Post Operative Pulmonary Embolism. Note that this is an incomplete replication of the original as we want you to come up with your own ideas and actions.

• Step 2:Use a systematic approach to review the case for example a Root Cause Analysis (as discussed in the tutorial), to identify possible causes of the event and the situational factors that were present that may have increased the likelihood of such an error occurring

• In your discussion of this event, you areNOTrequired to make professional or clinical care recommendations in regard to the actions of the nurses/health care workers involved.

• Step 3: Complete a literature review based on the findings of your review (step 2). This will provide evidence for Step 5 where you need to provide two (2) recommendations for change.

• Step 4:Determine if the practice identified in the case study is current and follows best practice guidelines (both NSQHS, RN Standards for Practice and Facility Clinical Practice Guidelines e.g., RPH, SCGH, WACHS).

• Step 5:Using one of the quality improvement methodologies mentioned in the lecture, determinetwo recommendations for achangein practicewhich may circumvent such events recurring.

• Consider you are writing this report to your manager, safety committee, director etc. to support a change in practice recommendations.

• Step 6:Write your report (layout suggestions in the report template). You will need to identify the rationale for your responses based on the material in the modules and the literature. Ensure you include evidence to support your recommendations of any change or clinical improvement processes.

Format and Structure

This is a formal report, and you must follow the guidelines provided below and those in the tutorials and Canvas site:

• Title Page

• Executive summary/abstract (max 200 words- non-structured, must be a summary of the entire report, not a replication of the introduction)

• Table of contents

• Introduction/ Background (Approx150 words)

• Literature review (Approx300 words)

• Discussion relating to investigation findings and best practice (Approx700 words)

• Conclusions (Approx200 words)

• Recommendations (Approx 200 words)

• References(APA7th)

For general formatting, please follow the SNM assessment guide

What you should include

Please refer to the report writing ppt in Canvas

Connecting your learning

Assessment tasks in this course are designed to give you opportunities to integrate what you learn into or from other units.

Marking rubric

The marking rubric has been attached to the assessment in Canvas.

Feedback and moderation

Your results and feedback will be released in 15 working days from submission via Turnitin.

All unit assessments are subject to a robust moderation process. Note that results are not final until they are officially released at the end of semester following ratification at the progression panel and are therefore subject to change.

Additional Resources

• Library Referencing Guide

• Academic Integrity