Weighting: Pass/Fail

Length: 2500 words + 10% (excluding reference list)

Unit Coordinator: Ms Hellen Kaneko

Aim

The aim of this assessment is to provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate how you use effective communication to improve patient outcomes and role model your professional attributes.

Instructions

Reflect on your professional nursing practice and analyse how you demonstrate effective communication and role model professionalism in your clinical work setting. Identify one scenario from your clinical practice to base your reflection on. Your reflection should identify examples of your personal outputs as evidence of your professionalism and positive impact on patient outcomes. Substantiate your reflection using current literature.

Please follow the steps below to complete your assessment task:

Step 1. Review the video explaining reflective writing to guide your reflection.

Step 2. Introduce your essay and the approach your reflection will take.

Step 3. Discuss your examples of professionalism and communication in your clinical setting.

Step 4. Using critical self-reflection, discuss how your personal outputs impact patient outcomes.

Step 5. Substantiate your discussion using current, relevant, peer reviewed literature.

Step 6. Conclude with a succinct summary of your essay.

Literature and references

In this assessment use at least 15 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 five 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. Note, websites such as Stat Pearls, Life in the Fastlane, and Wikipedia are not suitable for this assessment task.

Reflect on your professional nursing practice and analyse how you demonstrate effective communication and role model professionalism. In your reflection, you will provide examples of your personal outputs as evidence of your professionalism and positive impact on patient outcomes. Substantiate your analysis with the current literature.

Please follow the steps below to complete your assessment task:

Step 1. Introduce your essay and the approach your reflection will take.

Step 2. Research the current literature on nursing professionalism and effective communication to inform and substantiate your reflection.

Step 3. Review the video explaining reflective writing to guide your reflection.

Step 4. Analyse your examples of professionalism and communication.

Step 5. Analyse how your personal outputs impact patient outcomes.

Step 6. Substantiate your discussion using current, relevant, peer reviewed literature.

Step 7. Conclude with a succinct summary of your essay.

Requirements

• Include an introduction, body and conclusion.
• 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).
• Include page numbers on each page in a footer.
• Write in the third-person perspective, examples provided may be in the first person perspective.
• Use formal academic language.
• Use the seventh edition American Psychological Association (APA) referencing style. The CQUniversity Academic Learning Centre has an online APA Referencing Style Guide. Start your reference list on a separate page to the body of your assignment.

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.

Resources

• 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. Please note, lecture notes are not primary sources of evidence and should not be used in this assessment.
• We recommend that you access your discipline specific library guide: the Nursing and Midwifery Guide.
• We recommend you use EndNote to manage your citations and reference list. More information on how to use EndNote is available at the CQUniversity Library website.
• 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.
• 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 assessment via the unit Moodle site in Microsoft Word format only.

Marking Criteria

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

To achieve a passing grade for this unit you are required to pass this assessment item. If you do not pass this assessment item, you may have an opportunity to re-attempt.

A re-attempt is where you are given a second opportunity to demonstrate your achievement of one or more of the unit’s learning outcomes before you can progress to new learning or participate in subsequent learning activities. You may be given the opportunity to re-attempt an assessment but will only achieve a mark no greater than the minimum for a pass standard for the assessment.

You must:

• have shown a reasonable attempt to complete the initial assessment task
• be granted a re-attempt by your Unit Lead/Coordinator
• make changes to the nominated assessment task which you have failed and resubmit the revised work for marking within seven consecutive days, no assessment extensions will be approved.

Please note: Only one opportunity for a re-attempt is allowed.

Learning Outcomes Assessed

1. Demonstrate role modelling of professional attributes.

2. Communicate effectively with patients and co-workers to improve patient outcomes.

4. Reflect critically on personal outputs and professionalism within the clinical workplace.

References

Academic Skills, The University of Melbourne. (2017). Reflective writing [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SntBj0FIApw

NURS20172 Assessment 1 

To achieve a pass in this assessment students must be successful in half of each criterion (Presentation, Reflection, Professionalism and Communication, and Referencing).