NURS3001 Sem 1 2020 ‐ Case Study XXXXXXXXXX
CASE STUDY (WORD LIMIT = 1800 WORDS +/- 10%)
What do we need to do? This group assessment is worth 25 marks and assists you achieve unit learning outcomes:
ULO 1: Evaluate common behavioural responses to illness, and physical and psychological disability within different community acute contexts; and
ULO 4: Analyse communication strategies employed by individuals, families and the interprofessional health care team to assist adaptive responses to acute illness.
This assessment builds on your annotated bibliography assessment and uses the same case study videos. While watching the videos, you
should have identified that there were areas where health professionals could improve their practice to improve patient outcomes. This
assessment requires your group to evaluate your case study person’s behavioural and psychological responses to their illness and situation
(i.e., the physical and social environment). You will also need to identify and evaluate the communication strategies used by health
professionals during that person’s experience. Lastly, the assessment asks you to formulate specific and explicit recommendations you would
make to the health service to overcome the issues/problems/concerns you have identified. Detailed instructions are as follows:
• Your paper should have a title above a
ief introduction paragraph where you introduce your topic, provide context to the issue, outline
the main topics/ideas that your paper will discuss (e.g. “This paper first discusses…. then examines….”) so that your reader has a clear map to
navigate your paper and knows what to expect. Additionally, your paper should have a
ief conclusion paragraph at the end of your paper
where you
iefly summarise your paper and restate your main ideas.
• After the introduction paragraph, give a very
ief overview of the person in the case study. This should be no more than approximately 200
words. The idea is that the reader should get a sense of the main concerns in this person’s presentation but we do not need to know
everything about them – only the main key concerns that you are going to talk about later in your paper. We are also aware that the case
study videos contain missing information about the person so we are only interested in what information they do provide in their stories (i.e.,
you do not need to mention things like “unknown age” if it is not known etc. Your marker is aware that information is missing).
• In the next section, you need to evaluate the case study person’s behavioural and psychological responses to their illness and situation (i.e.,
the physical and social environment). You must actively compare, contrast, analyse, and apply the research literature to explain why the
person experienced those particular responses. Different people respond very differently to the same illness and situation so you need to
compare and contrast the research literature with your person’s responses to explain why the person in the video responded in the way they
did to manage their responses to the illness and their situation. For all content in this section, you must focus on the person’s
psychological
ehavioural characteristics, as well as the physical and social environment rather than the person’s physical illness and
pathophysiology as explanations for their responses. This section will synthesise the ideas initially presented in your individual annotated
ibliographies.
• In the next section, you need to identify and evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the communication strategies used by the health
professionals (either as outlined by the case study person in the nursing videos or strategies you have observed in the paramedicine
students’ video). Determine which strategies appeared to improve the outcome for the person and ones that could have been done better. It
is not necessarily that the communication was ‘wrong’, rather there are elements of the communication that may have resulted in an even
etter outcome for the person if conducted differently. You will need to compare and contrast the communication strategies identified in the
video to those you have read about in the research literature to determine which elements are most likely to affect patient outcomes, both
positively and negatively. You must then apply the findings of this research to the case study scenario.
NURS3001 Sem 1 2020 ‐ Case Study XXXXXXXXXX
• Lastly, you need to make two (2) specific and explicit recommendations to the health service to overcome the issues/problems/concerns
you have identified. What could the health service do differently next time to improve the experiences of future patients and enhance
their health outcomes? Your suggestions must be able to be implemented by nurses or paramedics (relative to your degree enrolment) and
e focused on the behavioural and psychological aspects of this case study. It is not appropriate to simply say nurses and paramedics should
efer to other health professionals, such as psychologists and social workers to fix the issues you have identified. Your recommendations must
e about aspects of patient care that are led by nurses or paramedics and explain how these would be specifically built into everyday
practice (e.g., policies and procedures etc.) so that all relevant staff were implementing your recommendations. It is also not enough to
simply write “Provide education to the ward nurses/paramedics”. You need to be specific, that is, you must explain what sort of education
would be provided, as well as when it will be implemented, where, how, to who, and why. How are you going to get staff to actually put
these recommendations into practice? Remember that people's actual behaviour often does not reflect their education or knowledge about
something (e.g., most smokers are well aware of the health risks of smoking but continue anyway – it is not because they have a lack of
knowledge about this). This section should not read like a care plan for your particular case study person. The idea is to make
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ward/hospital/health service suggestions and recommendations that nurses and paramedics (and other key stakeholders such as managers
and policy makers) reading your paper could initiate to improve their service and/or prevent similar issues occu
ing to their patients in
future. You will need to support your recommendations with research literature demonstrating your ideas have merit and an evidence-
ase.
• APA 7th ed. format reference list.
How do we submit the
assessment?
The assessment is to be submitted online by ONE member of your group as a Word or Word compatible (NOT PDF or .pages) document using the
Turnitin link only. The student who submits the drafts to Turnitin needs to be the same student who submits the final document. The student who
submits the final document must ensure that all group members agree for that version of the document to be submitted for assessment. The
assessment was previously due on Sunday May 3rd 2020. It is now due by 2359hrs (WST) on Sunday 10th May 2020 (Week 10). DO NOT JUST LOOK
AT THE TURNITIN % SCORE – THERE IS NO “SAFE” % SCORE. YOU MUST LOOK AT THE REPORT ITSELF. It is your responsibility to ensure you submit
your drafts to Turnitin as early as possible before the due date so that you have enough time to act on the Turnitin feedback report. Drafts will be
overwritten with only the last version submitted being eligible for marking. Late penalties apply to submissions after the due date as per the Unit
Outline.
Please ensure your Turnitin submission title AND .doc/.docx document file name is in the following format:
StudentID_SubmittingStudentFamilyName_AssessmentTitle e.g., 12345678_Windsor_CS
It is your responsibility to ensure that you have uploaded the co
ect document (e.g., not a draft, the wrong file, or an unreadable/co
upt file) to the
co
ect submission portal before the due date and time. Please double check on Blackboard that you have co
ectly submitted a document to the
submission portal rather than assume that everything went through ok. If you have any problems uploading your assessment (e.g., if Turnitin or
Blackboard are not working on the due date) please email the Unit Coordinator with a copy of your final document for assessment as soon as
possible before the due date and time. Also ensure you have received a Turnitin receipt via email - if you have not received a receipt then your
submission has not gone through.
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falsely representing the amount of work you did as part of a group assessment to be academic misconduct. If you did not adequately participate
and/or contribute in the group work for this assessment, you cannot claim it as your own work. Additionally, it is also considered academic
misconduct for group members to attribute authorship to those group members who failed to adequately participate and/or contribute to the group
work (p. 13 of Curtin’s Student Guidelines for Avoiding Plagiarism). If the group is encountering major issues with one or more group members
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NURS3001 Sem 1 2020 ‐ Case Study XXXXXXXXXX
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work.
How does this assessment
elate to and assist me achieve
my profession’s national
practice/capability standards?
Nursing Students
This assessment has been designed to assist you to continue developing your
skills in relation to the following standards of the “Registered Nurse Standards
for Practice” (NMBA, 2016):
“Standard 1: Thinks critically and analyses nursing practice. RNs use a variety of thinking strategies and
the best available evidence in making decisions and providing safe, quality nursing practice within
person-centred and evidence-based frameworks. The registered nurse accesses, analyses, and uses the
est available evidence, that includes research findings, for safe, quality practice” (p. 3).
“Standard 5: Develops a plan for practice. RNs are responsible for the planning and communication of
nursing practice. Agreed plans are developed in partnership. They are based on the RNs appraisal of
comprehensive, relevant information, and evidence that is documented and communicated; uses
assessment data and best