Articulate a critical understanding of your own skills and capabilities in your role as a professional nurse leading and managing care

Unit title & code

Leading Complex Care in Adult Nursing

Assignment number and title

Assignment 1

Assignment type

Reflective Case Study

Weighting of assignment

100%

Size or length of assessment

2500 words

Unit learning outcomes

1. Demonstrate the following knowledge and understanding

• Articulate a critical understanding of your own skills and capabilities in your role as a professional nurse leading and managing care.

1. Demonstrate the following skills and abilities

• Critically reflect on your ability to lead and manage care, exercise clinical judgement and make clinical decisions in complex situations.

What am I required to do in this assignment?

1. Reflective Case study (2500 words – 100%)

You will identify a complex situation from your clinical practice and reflect on your performance in the role of the professional nurse and your contribution to managing this situation

What do I need to do to pass? (Threshold Expectations from UIF)

• Contextualise the complex situation to be analysed
• Critically discuss the moral/ethical aspects of the situation
• Incorporate reference to relevant regulation
• Relate your role in the situation to key management/leadership/decision making theories
• Critically discuss the challenges of providing care in complex situations.
• Evaluate and critically reflect on your roles as a professional nurse in a complex situation
• Support your work with accurate referencing

How do I produce high quality work that merits a good grade?

Class discussion

How does this assignment relate to what we are doing in scheduled sessions?

During the unit sessions we will be completing a range of activities introducing the unit concepts and, reflecting on personal experience, seminars will promote collaboration to critically appraise and evaluate factors shaping clinical practice.