Planning, monitoring, and subsequent treatment of patients

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this assessment and this module, you will have demonstrated your ability to:

1. Critically appraise assessment, planning, monitoring, and subsequent treatment of patients presenting with acute illness.

    

2. Critically evaluate their own professional practice in relation to the management of acutely ill patients.

    

3. Critically reflect upon, and demonstrate competence in, the theory and practice related to acute illness.

Summative Assessments [Graded Assessments]

Summative Assessment [Graded Assessment] Guidelines

Coursework 1

 Acutely Ill Patient Care Case

• No individuals (including patients and staff) should be contacted.
• No medical, health or any other records should be used.
• Confidentiality needs to be maintained including the explicit use of pseudonyms and, as appropriate, removal or modification of personal identifiers.

Episode of Care

• Only one episode of care should be discussed – the episode of care that is discussed needs to be identified at the start.

Focus

• The focus should be the patient.

Patient Case

Can be a:

• Patient recently or previously encountered by you or colleagues.
• Patient in your current or previous health settings.
• Patient you have professionally and anonymously discussed with other professionals.
• Patient encountered during student placement (during your nursing training).
• Made-up case study, accommodating issues you would like to explore, within the confinements of the Learning Outcomes.

Cannot be a case from:

• Journals.
• The internet.
• Books.
• Published sources.
• Similar sources to the above.

Introduction

Brief, key background information, relevant literature including explaining what the case of acute illness is and  what the work will explore.

Patient information

Demographic of the patient, the patient’s main compliant/s, relevant medical, and psychosocial history, management of the patient and reflection.

Discussion

Discussion of the relevant literature, arguments with rationale, inferences explained, lessons learnt or what we can take from the discussions, considerations for practice and/or research going forward, strengths and/or limitations.

Coursework 2

Using a systematic approach demonstrate the management of a patient with acute illness. Presentation  of 6-10 slides with recorded audio 4-8 minutes

Formative Assessment

In preparation for the summative assessment all students will be required to engage in the activities in the different units of the ‘Study Materials’. These need to be posted on the Discussion Board.

Rubric

On the following page you will find the rubric that your tutor will use for marking. The rubric will help identify different areas of strength and those areas in need of further improvement. Your tutor will also provide personalised feedback and feedforward in relation to your achievement of the Learning Outcomes for this module. 

Assessment Presentation 

Presentation is an important part of your academic work. Please follow the presentation guidelines below. 

Title Page

Your title page must include: 1) the name of the university, 2) the course title, 3) the module code and title, 4) the name of the module tutor, 5) the word count, and 6) statements (see below).

Originality statement

‘I declare that this assessment is my own work and that I have correctly acknowledged the work of others using the Harvard referencing. This assessment is in accordance with University guidance on good academic conduct.’

Confidentiality statement (if applicable)

‘I declare that confidentiality of people discussed in this work is maintained; there is no identifiable information of these individuals.’

Manuscript

Your manuscript needs to;

•        Include page numbers (pages should be numbered at the top right).

•        Be double-spaced

•        Have a 1-inch (2.54 cm) margin, Times New Roman or Arial, 12 font. 

•        Maintain the confidentiality of service users/patients/clients and persons associated with them, service colleagues and organisations. 

•        Include a reference list (Harvard referencing), headed with ‘References’ centred, do not make it bold. Please refer to Cite Them Right. 

•        Use ‘the author’ to describe yourself (however you can use ‘I’ or ‘my’ etc. in self-reflection e.g., this phenomenon was often present in my practice).

Useful Links

Library Activity: Night of the Hungry, Hungry Robot! Online Escape Room!: https://libguides.derby.ac.uk/hungryrobot 

Library: https://www.derby.ac.uk/services/library/ 

Assessment regulations: https://www.derby.ac.uk/about/organisation/academic-regulations/ (sections F and E).

Study Skills: https://www.derby.ac.uk/services/library/study-skills/ 

Turnitin (video): https://youtu.be/822ZoLhsNZE 

IT Service Centre: https://www.derby.ac.uk/services/its/it-services-for-students/help-and-advice/ 

Cite Them Right: https://www.citethemrightonline.com/