ASSESSMENT 4 BRIEF
Subject Code and Title CPC105 Care of Persons with a Chronic Condition
Assessment
Theory assessment: Case Study
Develop a care plan
Individual/Group Individual
Length 1500 words (+/- 10%)
Learning Outcomes
The Subject Learning Outcomes demonstrated by successful completion of the task below include:
a) Explore and discuss the impact of chronic health problems on care planning needs of a person, family and community, using an evidence-based approach.
b) Develop a person-centred care plan for the person with a chronic health problem through health promotion, education, disease prevention and self-care.
c) Demonstrate clinical reasoning through nursing assessment, interventions and evaluation, to support the health care of persons with chronic health problems.
d) Discuss legal, professional and ethical considerations in care delivery.
e) Explain and integrate the impact of co-morbidities, quality use of medicines principles, risks to self and others into care plans.
f) Demonstrate interprofessional collaboration in developing holistic person-centred care plans.
Submission Due by 11:55pm AEST Sunday end of Module 6.1 (Week 11)
Weighting 60%
Total Marks 100 marks
Task Summary
For this assessment, you are required to prepare a care plan in consultation with the patient and her family members for managing her chronic health condition using an interprofessional and holistic person-centred approach. The aim of this care plan is to enable the patient, her family and her interprofessional health care team to plan and co-ordinate on-going health care for her life-long complex chronic condition. For this individual assessment, you have been given a hypothetical case study of a patient suffering from a chronic condition (see the Appendix 1B). Further information has been added to this case study for this assessment task.
_Brief_Care Plan_ Module_6
Context
This assessment task provides an opportunity for you to demonstrate the theoretical knowledge you have acquired in CPC105, by the development of a care plan for a patient with a complex chronic health condition. This assessment allows you to demonstrate your skills in the planning of holistic, interprofessional and person-centred care, while focusing on health promotion, education, disease prevention and self-care.
Task Instructions
To complete this task, utilise the nursing/clinical decision-making process model below:
Nursing process (RNpedia, 2019)
You are required to:
1. Complete the Torrens University Nursing Care Plan template that you will find in the assessment resources area with the following information:
a) Assessment data – Firstly outline the assessment data (subjective and objective) obtained from the case study provided. Secondly, what other assessment data (subjective and objective) would you need to collect in order to conduct a holistic assessment? Please note how this data would be collected.
b) Nursing diagnosis/Collaborative problems - Based upon this assessment, identify and list two nursing problems the patient is experiencing and two collaborative problems the patient is experiencing.
c) Planning/Expected outcomes – This is where goals and outcomes are formulated that directly impact patient care. These expected outcomes/goals should be written as per the SMART system (S – specific; M – measurable; A – achievable; R – realistic; T – timely) and include both short-term and long-term outcomes/goals.
d) Nursing interventions - Expand upon all four of these problems and describe the nursing and interprofessional interventions that should be implemented to provide holistic patient-centred care. You are to provide rationales for each of these interventions supported by current relevant evidence.
e) Evaluation – This evaluation is to occur to determine if the goals/expected outcomes have been achieved. Please evaluate the interventions, specifying patient data that would indicate patient improvement and deterioration. As you are not providing care to this person in the real world, you need to detail what you would expect to see if the patient was improving due to the implementation of these interventions. Additionally, you need to detail what you would expect to see if these interventions were not successful and the patient was deteriorating.
Please remember that this unit is about caring for persons with a chronic condition. Therefore, the focus of your care plan should be on health promotion, education, disease prevention and self-care and should focus on the patient, her family and the community setting. Please also be aware of the following requirements:
• Present your own original work using multiple academic references from academic books, peer reviewed scientific journal articles and other credible sources (.edu, .gov and .org webpages).
• No introduction and conclusion required for this assessment task.
• Headings can be used for this assessment task.
• Dot points can be used in the care plan template.
• Adhere to the word count (1200 words (+/-10%)) excluding the reference list.
• Academic references are to be included on a separate page using APA (7th ed.) guidelines.
• Your assessment must be submitted as a word document and not in protected view.
• Your assessment should be in 12-point font, Arial or Times New Roman, 1.5 line spaced and a minimum of 2.5cm margins.
Referencing
10+ references are required for this assessment task. Use recent, relevant and reliable resources to complete this task. These should be peer reviewed literature, related to the subject matter and no older than seven years.
It is essential that you use appropriate APA (7th ed.) referencing style for citing and referencing research. Please see more information on referencing here http://library.laureate.net.au/research_skills/referencing
Submission Instructions
Submit Assessment 1 Part C via the Assessment link in the main navigation menu in CPC105 Care of Persons with a Chronic Condition. The Learning Facilitator will provide feedback via the Grade Centre in the LMS portal. Feedback can be viewed in My Grades.
Reference:
RNpedia. (2019). Nursing process [Chart]. Retrieved from https://www.rnpedia.com/nursing- notes/fundamentals-in-nursing-notes/nursing-process/
Assessment Rubric: Theory Assessment – Case Study
Assessment Attributes
Fail
(Yet to achieve minimum standard) 0-49% Pass
(Functional)
50-64% Credit
(Proficient) 65-74% Distinction
(Advanced)
75-84% High Distinction
(Exceptional)
85-100%
Knowledge and understanding of the assessment, diagnosis and planning phases of the nursing/clinical decision making process
20%
In your care plan you have:
- Sometimes used assessment data to identify the patient’s nursing/collaborative problems.
- Identified vague nursing and collaborative problems. Failed to develop goals/outcomes for the patient or developed vague, non-specific goals/outcomes.
In your care plan you have: - Identified appropriate assessment data from the case study and identified future assessment data required to consider the patient’s nursing/collaborative problems.
- Used data to identify the patient’s nursing/collaborative problems sometimes including their aetiology and defining characteristics. - Listed some short and/or long-term goals/outcomes for the patient.
In your care plan you have:
- Identified correct assessment data from the case study and identified correct future assessment data required to consider the patient’s nursing/collaborative problems.
- Used available data to identify the patient’s nursing/collaborative problems usually including their aetiology and defining characteristics.
- Clearly specified short- and long-term outcomes/goals for the patient.
In your care plan you have: - Correctly identified most of the assessment data from the case study and identified most of the future assessment data required to consider the patient’s nursing/collaborative problems.
- Used most of the available data to correctly identify the patient’s nursing/collaborative problems including their aetiology and defining characteristics.
- Clearly specified short- and long-term outcomes/goals for the patient. In your care plan you have: - Correctly identified all the assessment data from the case study and identified all the future assessment data required to consider the patient’s nursing/collaborative problems.
- Used all available data to correctly identify the patient’s nursing/collaborative problems including their aetiology and defining characteristics.
- Clearly and accurately specified realistic and achievable short- and long- term outcomes/goals for the patient.
Knowledge and understanding of the nursing interventions required to provide holistic person-centred care for the nursing and collaborative problems identified
In your care plan you have:
- Read some material to identify vague nursing interventions and occasionally attempted to justify some of your nursing interventions that In your care plan you have: - Read modestly and appropriately to identify nursing interventions that focus on health promotion, education, disease prevention and self-care. - Attempted to justify some of your nursing interventions In your care plan you have:
- Read widely and appropriately to identify nursing interventions that focus on health promotion, education, disease prevention and self-care. - Usually justified your choice of nursing In your care plan you have: - Focused your reading on the relevant features of the case study and focused the nursing interventions on health promotion, education, disease prevention and self-care.
In your care plan you have: - Clearly linked the unique aspects of the case study to goals and interventions which focus on health promotion, education,
20%
focus on health promotion, education, disease prevention and self-care.
with reference to some current relevant evidence- based information.
interventions with reference to current relevant evidence-based information.
- Justified your choice of nursing interventions with reference to current relevant evidence-based information.
disease prevention and self-care.
- Fully justified your choice of nursing interventions with reference to extensive current relevant evidence- based information.
Knowledge and understanding of the evaluation phase of the
nursing/clinical decision making process
20% In your care plan you have:
Provided limited or no evaluation data illustrating improvement and deterioration of the patient.
In your care plan you have: - Provided appropriate evaluation data illustrating some improvement and deterioration of the patient.
In your care plan you have: - Provided mostly accurate
evaluation data illustrating improvement and deterioration of the patient.
In your care plan you have: - Provided clear and accurate evaluation data illustrating improvement and deterioration of the patient.
In your care plan you have: - Provided clear, accurate and all of the evaluation data that illustrates improvement and deterioration of the patient.
Evaluation of information selected to support arguments in this assessment item
15%
Limited understanding of key concepts required to support this assessment task.
Confuses logic and emotion. Information taken from reliable sources but without a coherent analysis or synthesis.
Viewpoints of experts are taken as fact with little questioning.
Resembles a recall or summary of key ideas. Often conflates/confuses assertion of opinion with information substantiated by evidence from the research/course materials.
Supports opinion and information substantiated by evidence from the research/course materials. Demonstrates a capacity to explain and apply relevant concepts.
Questions viewpoints of experts.
Discriminates between assertion of opinion and information substantiated by robust evidence from the research/course materials and extended reading.
Well demonstrated capacity
to explain and apply relevant concepts. Viewpoint of experts are subject to questioning. Shows growing intellectual independence, rigor and judgement when selecting evidence to use. Systematically and critically discriminates between assertion of opinion and information substantiated by robust evidence from the research/course materials and extended reading.
Information is taken from sources with a high level of interpretation and evaluation.
Exhibits intellectual independence, rigor, and good judgement when selecting evidence to use.
Effective written communication
Presents information. Specialised language and terminology is rarely or inaccurately employed.
Communicates in a readable manner that largely adheres to the given format.
Communicates in a coherent and readable manner that adheres to the given format.
Communicates coherently and concisely in a manner that adheres to the given format.
Communicates eloquently. Expresses meaning coherently, concisely and creatively within the given format.
15%
Meaning is repeatedly obscured by errors in the communication of ideas, including errors in structure, sequence, spelling, grammar and/or punctuation.
Generally, employs specialised language and terminology with accuracy. Meaning is sometimes difficult to follow.
Information, arguments and evidence are structured and sequenced in a way that is not always clear and logical. Some errors are evident in spelling, grammar and/or punctuation.
Accurately employs specialised language and terminology.
Meaning is easy to follow. Information, arguments and evidence are structured and sequenced in a way that is clear and logical. Occasional minor errors present in spelling, grammar and/or punctuation.
Accurately employs a wide range of specialised language and terminology. Engages audience interest. Information, arguments and evidence are structured and sequenced clearly and persuasive.
Spelling, grammar and punctuation are free from errors.
Discerningly selects and precisely employs a wide range of specialised language and terminology. Engages and sustains audience’s interest. Information, arguments and evidence are insightful, persuasive and expertly presented.
Spelling, grammar and punctuation are free from errors.
Correct formatting and APA 7th referencing
style
10% Referencing is omitted or does not resemble APA
(7th ed.).
Referencing resembles APA (7th ed.), with frequent or repeated errors.
Referencing resembles APA (7th ed.), with occasional errors.
Consistent and correct APA (7th ed.) referencing style throughout the assessment task. Flawless, consistent and correct APA (7th ed.) referencing style throughout the assessment task.