Diploma in Community Health Care and Support Level 7
Course Code & Title: HLTH 7001: Professional Practice and Legislation
Credits/Level 15/7
Assessment 2: Case Study Assignment
Version:
3.4
Term & Cohort: Term 1
Due Date:
Overall Weighting: 40%
Word Count: 2000 +/- 10% words
Total marks available 100
Tutor:
Graduate Profile Outcomes
GOP1: Apply knowledge relevant to health issues to assist in the enhancement of the health of the individuals and whanau/families, organisations and communities.
GPO4: Analyse concepts of health caregivers’ role including: Legislation, Te Tiriti o Waitangi/ The Treaty of Waitangi, and health ethics.
Course aim
To investigate the roles, functions and legislation related to health services and the role and scope of practice of the health care professional in those services. This will gain an orientation to the breadth of possible employment opportunities enabling students to make an informed decision regarding their future employment.
Purpose
To facilitate the development of critical inquiry skills to engage students in the analysis of Public Health Care.
Learning Outcomes
LO1: Articulate the essence of Public Health Legislation and services and explain the importance of ethical practice in healthcare.
LO4: Relate health legislation to health in the context of Aotearoa New Zealand.
Assessment 2:
• Read the case study carefully.
• Analyse Health Legislations and Ethical practices in the context of Case Study.
Case Study
Case Study 1
Scenario ONE
Jack has been to a local Sexual Health Clinic for his regular 6th monthly sexual health screening. Three days later he has received a call from a Nurse Practitioner advising him that he has tested positive for Syphilis and his throat swab came back positive for Gonorrhoea. He was advised to come back to the clinic to receive the required treatment.
Two days later Jack went back and saw Samantha, the Nurse Practitioner (NP), at the clinic and she was able to administer all required treatments and provided him with a prescription for Azithromycin and some condoms. Jack has also received some confidential counselling and was asked to contact his sexual partners from the past six months or alternatively provide contact numbers of his sexual partners so that the clinic can contact them directly. Jack has said that he will contact his sexual partners himself to inform them of his diagnosis.
Samantha (NP) followed up with Jack the following week to see if had contacted his sexual partners and he said he was too embarrassed to do so and was not willing to provide any numbers to the clinic at this stage. Samantha was trying to explain to Jack the importance of informing his sexual partners so that they can be tested and treated immediately. Samantha has also informed Jack that if he provides the contact numbers, they will not disclose his identity when contacting his sexual partners. However, Jack was still reluctant to provide any information and said that he needs some time to think about it.
Scenario TWO
You are working as a Health Care Assistant in the aged care facility. Mr Brown is one of the residents of that aged care facility and has a moderate form of disability that requires the use of a wheelchair. One day he has experienced a sudden episode of loose bowel motion (diarrhoea) while having dinner with the rest of the residents.
Unfortunately, due to the nature of his disability, he was not able to contain himself and has defecated before being able to reach a bathroom or call for help.
That evening you and one of your colleagues are in charge of the dinner service. You have realised that Mr Brown has suffered a rather embarrassing moment and in a need of some immediate assistance. You rush to help Mr Brown and call for your colleague to assist. However, once your colleague realised what has just happed, she could not contain her laughter as she thought it was “funny”. She was also abrupt to Mr Brown and has said the following: “You are a silly old man, why did you do that?!” Mr Brown was extremely embarrassed and broke into tears. You have said to your colleagues that we must take him to the bathroom and assist him with a shower and change of clothes right away. However, your colleague has said that it can be done after the dinner service is over. You have strongly disagreed with the decision of your colleague and have decided to call the Registered Nurse (RN) on duty. The RN arrived in few minutes and has instructed you to take Mr Brown to shower right away. The RN is also helped you to calm Mr Brown down a bit and reassure him that everything will be fine, and they will take good care of him. You took Mr Brown to the shower room he was able to restore his dignity.
In the aftermath of all this, Mr Brown called his daughter and informed her of what had happened to him. His daughter was furious about the incident and has promised to take legal actions, including informing the Ministry of Health about this incident.
Questions
Case study 1: Public Health Legislation and ethical principles (LO1)
(45 marks and approximately 1000 words)
a) Explain at least two legal issues that are applicable in this case study.
Provide the reference of relevant healthcare legislation and polices.
b) What ethical issues can you identify in this case study. Discuss any 2 issues in detail.
c) Analyse the ethical principles that are applicable to this case study and support them with relevant examples and your experiences.
Case study 2: Health Legislation in context of Aotearoa/New Zealand (LO4)
(45 marks and approximately 1000 words)
a) Critically analyse which parts of Health Legislation of New
Zealand/Aotearoa are relevant to case study 2?
b) What recommendations would you make to the Health Care Assistant to avoid this situation in future.
c) Evaluate in context of Aotearoa/ New Zealand if your mentioned Health legislation are helpful and enough to improve health of people and communities.
Provide justifications and appropriate legal and ethical references in the context of New Zealand/Aotearoa Health Care setting.
Language standard: (5 marks)
References: (5 marks)
Marking Criteria
HLTH7001: Professional Practice and Legislation
Assessment 2: Case Study
Student Name: Student ID: Total Mark:
/100 Weighting: 40% Date:
Criteria Ma
rks
Case Study 1: Public Health Legislation and ethical principles (LO1)
a Explanatio n of legal issues that are applicable in given case study.
Clear and in-depth explanation of two or more legal issues that are applicable in the case study. Clear explanation of one or more legal issues that are applicable in the case study. General explanation of one or more legal issues that are applicable in the case study. Attempts to explain the legal issues that are applicable in the case study are insufficient and/or not relevant No attempt to explain the legal issues that are applicable in the case study
15 - 12 11 - 8 7 - 4 3 - 1 0 /15
b Discussion of ethical issues identified in this case study.
Two or more
ethical issues are identified and discussed clearly and in depth. One or more
ethical issues are identified and discussed clearly. One or more
ethical issues are identified and discussed in general. Attempts to identify ethical issues are not clear and/or not relevant. No attempt to identify ethical issues.
15 - 12 11 - 8 7- 4 3 - 1 0 /15
c Analysis of the ethical principle
s that are
applicab
le to this case study and support them with Robust, in-depth analysis of the ethical principle
s that are applicab le to given case study with Clear, logical analysis of the ethical principle
s that are applicab le to given case study with General analysis of the ethical principles that are applicable to given case study with little supporting examples. Attempts to analyse the ethical principles that are applicable to given case study are not relevant. No attempt to analyse the ethical principles that are applicable to given case study.
relevant example s and your experien ces.
relevant supporti ng
example
s. . some
relevant supporti ng example
s.
15 - 12 11 - 8 7- 4 3 - 1 0 /15
Case Study 2: Health Legislation in context of Aotearoa/New Zealand (LO4)
a Critically analysis of Health Legislation of New Zealand/Ao tearoa are relevant to issues discussed in case study 2. Significant relevant Health Legislation s of New Zealand/Ao tearoa are clearly and critically analysed in depth. Relevant
Health Legislation s of New Zealand/Ao tearoa are clearly analysed. Relevant
Health Legislation s of New Zealand/Ao tearoa are generally and briefly analysed. Attempts to analyse the relevant Health Legislation s of New Zealand/A
otearoa are not clear and/or not relevant. No attempt made to analyse the relevant Health Legislation s of New Zealand/Ao tearoa.
15-12 11- 8 7 - 4 3- 1 0 /15
b Recommen
dations to the Health Care
Assistant
(HCA) in context of
New
Zealand
Health Care Setting in reference to ethical/lega l aspects.
Recommen
dations to the Health Care
Assistant
(HCA) in context of
New
Zealand
Health Care Setting in reference to ethical/lega l aspects are relevant and clearly justified Recommen
dations to the Health Care
Assistant
(HCA) in context of
New
Zealand
Health Care Setting in reference to ethical/lega l aspects are relevant and justified. Recommen
dations to the Health Care
Assistant
(HCA) in context of
New
Zealand
Health Care Setting in reference to ethical/lega l aspects are relevant with some
justification Attempts to make recommen
dations to the Health Care
Assistant
(HCA) in context of
New
Zealand
Health
Care Setting in reference to ethical/lega l aspects are not relevant No attempt to make recommend
ations to the Health Care
Assistant (HCA) in context of
New
Zealand
Health
Care Setting in reference to ethical/lega l aspects.
15 -12 11- 8 7 - 4 3 - 1 0 /15
c Evaluation of Health legislation in context of
Aotearoa/ Clear, and
comprehen
sive evaluation of Health legislation Clear but brief evaluation of Health legislation in context General evaluation of Health legislation in context of Attempts for evaluation of Health legislation in context No attempt to evaluate Health legislation in context of
New
Zealand, to improve health of people and
communitie
s
in context of
Aotearoa/
New
Zealand, to improve health of people and
communitie
s
of
Aotearoa/
New
Zealand, to improve health of people and
communitie
s
Aotearoa/
New
Zealand, to improve health of people and
communitie
s
of
Aotearoa/
New
Zealand, to improve health of people and
communiti
es are
inaccurate and/or not relevant. Aotearoa/
New
Zealand, to improve health of people and
communitie
s
15 -12 11- 8 7 - 4 3 - 1 0 /15
Referencin
g
Standards APA (7th) referencing
is
consistently accurate. APA(7th) referencing is mainly accurate. APA(7th) referencing contains errors. APA(7th)
Referencing contains multiple
fundamenta
l errors that do not
accurately
acknowledg e the literature. No attempt made to reference
5 4 3 2-1 0 /5
Language Standards Fluent language and writing style appropriate
to the assessment with accurate grammar and spelling.
Language and writing style are mainly fluent.
Grammar and spelling mainly accurate.
Meaning apparent but language and writing not always fluent.
Grammar and/or spelling contain errors.
Level of language and writing has
frequent
grammar and/or spelling mistakes making the meaning unclear. The meaning is not apparent because of the low level of language.
5 4 3 2 1 /5
Total /100
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