Assessment task:

Critically reflect upon and evaluate your own use of advanced communication within clinical practice and create reasoned plans for advanced communication in challenging situations based on an analysis of the relevant literature. Apply knowledge of advanced communication to situations involving clients, students or other health professionals and discuss the outcome.

From your clinical experience take an example of a "difficult patient", a significant interaction with a problem student or with another health professional that you have encountered in the past and narrate your interaction and communication.

Narrate a significant conversation under the following headings (you can include more headings as you may deem necessary):

• Describe the incident/event - What happened?

• Identify emotions and issues - Why it happened?

• Review the related literature to analyse what happened - Do other people have similar problems?

• Suggest best practice in light of evidence - How did others solve the problem?

• Create a reasoned plan for future communication in similar significant circumstances - How would you deal with it?

This is a written assessment with a maximum limit of 3000 words (excluding the title, abstract and references). This written part carries 90 marks.

One part of the assessment is the presentation. This can be a short video illustrating an aspect of the assessment (initial incident, final outcome etc). This can be oral audio or video narrative or a role play. You can also use a "voice over powerpoint" presentation or any other multimedia format you may find interesting. Be creative in your presentation. This part carries 10 marks and is an essential part of the assessment. Assessments without the presentation will be marked as fail.

Some of the files may be too big or in a format that cannot be uploaded on the moodle. Please don't leave it to the last minute and give yourself enough time for troubleshooting. If the files cannot be uploaded to the Moodle, contact the unit coordinator so that the file can be transferred by other means.

You must ask yourself the following:

• Is the introduction to the case engaging to the audience?

• Is the description of the case clear and concise whilst giving all the relevant background information?

• Have you critically reflected upon and evaluated your own use of advanced communication within clinical practice?

• Does the analysis of the case demonstrate academic rigour, depth and insight?

• Do your reflections on your own performance, practice and any feedback received demonstrate insight? Have you described a plan for performance improvement?

• Have you created reasoned plans for advanced communication in challenging situations based on an analysis of the relevant literature?

• Have you applied knowledge of advanced communication to situations involving clients, students and other health professionals and discussed the outcome of strategies used in the communication? (You may have to apply knowledge of advanced communications to situations involving clients, students and other health professionals. Analyse how you have (or would) initiate the discussion using advanced communication strategies/knowledge/criteria. Evaluate the process and address problems encountered and things you perceived you did well. Discuss the outcome).

• Is the conclusion concise and clear in its evaluation and summary of the significance of the communication pitfalls and in its vision for your performance development?
• Last, but not the least, check the manuscript for spellings, grammar and appropriate use of language. You can take help from academic learning centre.

This assessment must be submitted with all client's identifying factors removed. Identifying factors include such things as patient name, date of birth and clinical site name (or the name of the student or other health practitioners) for example.

You must achieve a pass mark of 50% to pass this assessment, and you must pass this assessment to pass the unit.

Further details and marking rubric is available on the Moodle page.

You will create a portfolio of clinical report writing in this assessment - you will construct written reports which effectively communicate an interpretation of patient findings to referrers and other health professionals.

Report Writing: Submit 3 normal and 7 abnormal cases with relevant key images in jpg format (not the whole study), referral, sonographer's worksheet and full written report (created by you). The reports should be professional, comprehensive, precise, discuss the clinical indications, relevant history, scanning techniques, imaging findings, probable diagnosis, differential diagnosis, recommendations and advice regarding other imaging modalities (Based on the RANZCR recommendations). You can use cases from your routine clinical practice, or borrow studies from other colleagues. There is no restriction on the type of patients. Please be sure to anonymize the patients completely. At least 2 of the cases should be "Urgent". Please note that these are not "case reports", but clinical interpretative reports that radiologists usually write as a result of a sonographic examination. Each written report (excluding the attachments) should not be more than 1000 words.

The Assessment Criteria will address the following areas of your performance:

• Patient care and communication.
• Knowledge of duty of care and best practice as a sonographer.
• Recognition and understanding of the relevant rules and laws governing effective communication.
• Ability to recognize the need to extend the clinical communication where appropriate.
• Accurate documentation and communication of findings.

Please check the manuscript for spelling and grammar mistakes and make sure that appropriate language has been used.

Marks are equally divided into 10 reports (3 normal and 7 abnormal cases - 10% each report).

Detailed Assessment Criteria and marking rubric will be available on this Unit's Moodle site.