NURS11159 Introduction to Nursing

Assessment One, 1750 words +-10%

Due Week 6: 20^th April 2018 4 pm

Background:

The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) has developed several documents to guide Australian Registered Nurses in their practice. These also apply to students of Nursing.

These Documents include

· The International Council of Nurses Code of Ethics (adopted by NMBA effective March 2018)

· The Code of Professional Conduct for Nurses in Australia(2008 rebranded), effective May 2013

· The Registered Nurse Standards for Practice (2016),

· The Nurses guide to Professional boundaries (2010)rebranded effective June2013 and

· The Social Media Policy (2014).Developed by AHPRA but adopted by the NMBA.

Assessment Question:

Using the above documents discuss how each document will influence your clinical practice. You do not have to differentiate between your practice as a student or an RN as we will assume for this assignment that this is the same. Some of the factors that you can discuss include:

Ethical behaviour

Scope of Practice and Competency.

Communication

Culture and Diversity

Justice

Legal issues

Advocacy

Accountability

Responsibilities in relation to the Social Media Policy.

You will need to use the existing literature to support your discussion. This means you will use the library facilities to search for credible academic research to support your argument or thesis. Remember the research can come from a journal or a textbook. The journal should be less than five years old and the textbook less than ten years. If you are referring to the Australian situation you should use an Australian reference.

Assessment format:

Written in the third person using APA referencing style.

· All statements that are not your original thoughts must be referenced.

· Include an introduction (10% of total word count)

· Include a body (80% of total word count)

· Include a conclusion (10% of total word count)

· Use in date and credible academic references to support your discussion. Less than ten years old for a text book and five years old for a journal.

Information relating to Assignment writing is on the Moodle subject site in weeks 4 & 5.

Assessment criteria

NURS11159 Assessment Two

Assessment No. 2

Type Written

CLO's 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5

Word Limit approx. 2000 words (+/- 10%)

Percentage 50%

Due Date Week 11 Friday 25^th May 2018 4 PM AEST

Objectives

This assessment item relates to Course Learning Outcomes 1, 2, 3 4 &5.

The Task "As Deputy State Coroner for the past six years I have regrettably presided over many inquests involving deaths in hospitals. In many of these cases one error or omission sometimes a serious one led to death, however, I have never seen a case such as Vanessa's in which almost every conceivable error or omission was detected and those errors continued to build one on top of the other” Magistrate Milanovich 24/1/2008. Westmead Coroners Court. NSW.

Standard 4 of the Registered Nurse standards for practice stipulates (the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia, 2016,p4)that "RNs will accurately conduct comprehensive and systematic assessments. They analyse information and data and communicate outcomes as the basis for practice.” Discuss the case of Vanessa Anderson. Your essay should include discussion of the following points:

·Discuss the human factors focusing on communication that led to the adverse outcomes in this case. Discuss the importance of communication in hospitals and the consequences of poor communication as evidenced in this scenario.

· List the coroner's findings in relation to systems improvement and communication errors and how these errors became a catalyst for change. Discuss the changes that occurred in the Health system and the Royal North Shore Hospital following Vanessa’s death

· Define the role of the RN in the detection and reporting of clinical deterioration.

·The contributing factors in Vanessa death, focusing on the Coroners findings and the recommendations that resulted from the Coroner's Inquest and the Garling report.

Support your discussion with particular focus on the academic literature surrounding the contributory factors of communication, patient safety, clinical handover and medication safety. This means that you would do your academic research on (for example) communication and then discuss it with the background of Vanessa’s case, and then you would do the same for patient safety, clinical handover and medication safety as it relates to Vanessa’s case,

Planning

An academic paper uses the following features: This paper requires you to read the associated literature surrounding Vanessa Anderson's death identify key contributing factors as highlighted by the coroner and support your findings with information from the academic literature in relation to these findings.

·An introduction (approximately 10% of the suggested word count)

·A body (approximately 80% of the suggested word count)

·A conclusion (approximately 10%of the suggested word count)

·Read the question carefully and identify the main areas that you will be required to research.

·Read the reports and watch the videos associated with Vanessa's death.

·Identify the coroner's recommendations.

·Research the areas the coroner highlighted and base your academic research on these areas.

Writing your paper.

Once you have completed your assignment plan, use it to write your assignment. The plan should include citation details for each key point. Your final assignment should contain grammatically correct sentence structure, paraphrasing and in-text citations. A reference list should be included at the end of your paragraph using APA referencing style. Your assignment should include at least ten references from quality sources. Note: APA guidelines require reference lists to be on a separate page; See the APA reference guide for more details.