Type: Presentation 

Due date: 5pm (AEST) Wednesday 15th September (Week 9) for all students

Weighting: PASS/FAIL

Length: 1000 words

Unit Coordinator: Dr Colleen Johnston-Devin

Learning Outcomes Assessed

1. Explain the concept of clinical governance and justify its relevance to the clinical setting and nursing practice.
2. Apply a framework derived from the National Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care to evaluate clinical governance in a clinical setting.
3. Evaluate a clinical governance infrastructure within a health service.

Aim

The aim of this assessment is for you to demonstrate an understanding of clinical governance in the workplace by producing an audit plan that includes an explanation of clinical governance. The plan will include an overview of clinical governance, how your health service addresses clinical governance, the role of nurse audit in clinical governance, the background of the nurse practice area that you have chosen to audit, the relevant National Safety and Quality Health Service Standard (NSQHSS), and the steps you have taken to initiate your audit in your workplace. Assessment One provides the basis for Assessment Two.

Instructions

Please follow the steps below to complete your assessment task:

Step 1.  Provide an overview of clinical governance in healthcare organisations

Your overview will be informed by current literature to provide a description and explanation of clinical governance including how clinical governance impacts clinical risk and influences safety and quality in nursing practice. Your overview needs to include how your organisation addresses clinical governance including risk and nurse audit.

Step 2. Choose a nursing practice for audit and select the relevant National Safety and Quality Health Service Standard (NSQHSS) needed to undertake the audit.

You will need to discuss your choice with your unit nursing leaders i.e., Nurse Unit Manager, Clinical Nurse Consultant, Nurse Educator, Service/Clinic Manager. They may be able to suggest nursing practices in your clinical area that require review by audit. After deciding what nursing practice you will audit, select the relevant National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards (2017) in which this nursing practice sits. The standards are listed below.

§ Clinical Governance Standard

§ Partnering with Consumers Standard

§ Preventing and Controlling Healthcare-Associated Infection Standard

§ Medication Safety Standard

§ Comprehensive Care Standard

§ Communicating for Safety Standard

§ Blood Management Standard

§ Recognising and Responding to Acute Deterioration Standard.

Step 3. Select the relevant audit:

Work with your unit nursing leaders to decide on the most relevant audit that measures compliance of the identified nursing practice with the selected Standard.

Step 4. Describe the background of the identified nursing practice that is to be audited. To do this you will need to research current literature and your local health service policies and procedures. This background should also include the clinical risks associated with the identified nursing practice.

Literature and references

In this assessment use at least 5 contemporary references (<5 years) to substantiate your information. You may also use seminal scholarly literature where relevant. Suitable references include peer-reviewed journal articles as well as textbooks and credible websites. When sourcing information, consider the 5 elements of a quality reference: currency, authority, relevance, objectivity, and coverage. Grey literature sourced from the internet must be from reputable websites such as from government, university, or peak national bodies: for example, the Australian College of Nursing.

Requirements

1. Include an introduction, body and conclusion

2. Use a conventional and legible size 12 font, such as Times New Roman or Arial, with 2.0 line spacing and 2.54cm page margins (standard pre-set margin in Microsoft Word).

3. Include page numbers on each page in a footer.

4. You should write in the third person.

5. Use formal academic language.

6. The word count is considered from the first word of the introduction to the last word of the conclusion. The word count excludes the reference list but includes in-text references and direct quotations.

7. Use the seventh edition American Psychological Association (APA) referencing style. The CQUniversity Academic Learning Centre has an online APA Referencing Style Guide.

Resources

8. National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards

9. You can use unit provided materials and other credible sources (e.g. journal articles, books) to reference your argument. The quality and credibility of your sources are important.

10. We recommend that you access your discipline specific Nursing Resource Guide

11. For information on academic communication please go to the Academic Learning Centre Moodle site. The Academic Communication section has many helpful resources including information for students with English as a second language. There are also Oral Presentation resources.

12. For information on using PowerPoint please go to the Academic Learning Centre Computing section - How to use PowerPoint.

13. Submit a draft before the due date to review your Turnitin Similarity Score before making a final submission. Instructions are available here.

Submission

Submit your saved Word assessment document via the Assessment portal in the unit Moodle site.

Marking Criteria

Refer to the marking rubric below for more detail on how marks will be assigned.

To achieve a pass in this assessment students must be successful in at least 2 of the 3 major criteria.

To be successful in each of the major criteria students must be successful in one half of the given minor criteria i.e. 3/6; 4/8

Students undertaking this assessment will be either in:

i) A Partnered Graduate Program

ii) NOT in a Partnered Graduate Program

Type: Presentation

Due date:

i) This date will be negotiated at your local health service

ii) Submit by 5pm Friday 1st October 2021 (Week 11)

Weighting: PASS/FAIL

Length: 5-minute oral presentation using 1 PowerPoint slide only

Unit Coordinator: Dr Colleen Johnston-Devin

Learning Outcome Assessed

4. Explain the use of clinical audits as part of a quality improvement cycle to improve nursing practice and patient care.

5. Identify deviations from best practice and discuss areas for improvement.

Aim

The aim of this presentation is to demonstrate your understanding of clinical audit, and the associated quality standards, as part of the quality improvement cycle. You will identify deviations from best nursing practice in your clinical area, justify an audit of a selected nursing practice and explain what you did with the audit findings.

Instructions

This assessment is to be undertaken in the clinical setting at your local health service. This presentation builds on Assessment One. Based on the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standard (NSQHSS) selected in Assessment One, and in collaboration with your local nursing team, undertake a clinical audit and present your findings at your local Hospital and Health Service. You are not required to repeat information from Assessment One, unless brief detail is required to give context to your presentation. You are to present the audit cycle: the steps that were undertaken to do the actual audit; the findings; and what was done about the findings.

Please follow the steps below to complete your assessment task:

Step 1. Collaborate with your manager at the HHS to:

a. choose an area to audit from the selected NSQHSS in Assessment 1

b. determine the sample size.

Step 2. Work with your unit’s nursing leader to decide on the tools for data collection and timeframe.

Step 3. Ensure you have the NSQHSS selected in Assessment 1 for comparison or benchmarking to achieve compliance.

Step 4. Report on the audit through a five-minute oral presentation at your local HHS if you are in a partnered program, or by recording yourself and submitting through Moodle.

a. Provide one PowerPoint with a summary of the audit - data collection, findings and recommendations

b. Only ONE slide is to be used

Literature and references

In this assessment use at least 5 contemporary references (<5 years) to support your discussion. You may also use seminal scholarly literature where relevant. Suitable references include peer-reviewed journal articles as well as textbooks and credible websites. When sourcing information, consider the 5 elements of a quality reference: currency, authority, relevance, objectivity, and coverage. Grey literature sourced from the internet must be from reputable websites such as from government, university, or peak national bodies: for example, the Australian College of Nursing.

Requirements

1. Use a conventional legible font.

2. Use the seventh edition American Psychological Association (APA) referencing style. The CQUniversity Academic Learning Centre has an online APA Referencing Style Guide.

Resources

3. National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards

4. You can use unit provided materials and other credible sources (e.g. journal articles, books) to reference your argument. The quality and credibility of your sources are important.

5. We recommend that you access your discipline specific Nursing Resource Guide

6. For information on academic communication please go to the Academic Learning Centre Moodle site. The Academic Communication section has many helpful resources including information for students with English as a second language. There are also Oral Presentation resources.

7. For information on using PowerPoint please go to the Academic Learning Centre Computing section – How to use PowerPoint.

8. Submit a draft before the due date to review your Turnitin Similarity Score before making a final submission. Instructions are available here.

Submission

Submission will only apply to those students who are not in a partnered graduate program (ii).

i) Students will present their audit as organised by their partnered Graduate Program Coordinator

ii) Students will submit a five-minute recording of their presentation via the Assessment Portal of the unit Moodle site.

Marking Criteria

Refer to the marking rubric below for more detail on how marks will be assigned.

Student name: ______________________________

To achieve a pass in this assessment students must be successful in at least 2 of the 4 major criteria.

To be successful in each of the major criteria students must be successful in one half of the given minor criteria i.e., 2/4; 3/6