Assignment Task
Assessment Task 1 – Task Description – 1,200 words – Harvard Referencing
To successfully complete this assessment task, you will need to select and examine a primary health nurse role.
You will analyse how a nurse employed in this role would identify the health needs of their client group.
By employing demographic characteristics of the client group, you will need to predict a relevant potential health issue.
Using the health promotion strategies identified in the Ottawa Charter, other than the development of person skills, design and justify how the primary health care nurse could work to address the health issue on behalf of their client group.
This task requires that you present your work in the form of a standard essay. The standard academic essay comprises three components – the introduction, the body of the essay and the conclusion. Headings are not included in a standard essay (headings are used when writing a report).
The purpose of an introduction is to inform the reader of what they can expect to read about in the essay. Citations are not usually included in an introduction, unless providing a definition is essential.
The body of the essay is where you express your ideas in relation to the assessment task. These ideas need to be clustered together in small parcels of related information, i.e., paragraphs. It is good practice to commence a paragraph with a topic sentence, which provides the reader with an idea of what the paragraph is going to be about.
The order in which you present your paragraphs should assist the reader to logically follow your thinking or argument. Remember to support your thoughts with evidence, i.e., cite the source of information which has caused you to think the way you do. Use the marking rubric to guide the flow of information you present. This makes it easier for the examiner to follow. Anything that makes it easier to read your work will stop them from getting grumpy!
Finish your essay with a conclusion. This simply summarises the key points of your essay and should not include any new information.
Assessment criteria 1- Identification and examination of a primary health nurse role and client group
To achieve this criterion, you would need to address the following components:
Describe the role of a specific primary health nurse you have selected.
Discuss which primary health care principles are reflected in undertaking this role and how these principles are achieved.
Identify the clients who would use the services provided by a PHC nurse in the role you have chosen. Explain how the nurse would recognise and understand the health needs of these clients.
Assessment criteria 2 – Analysis of client group health needs and identification of a relevant potential health issue.
To achieve this criterion, you would need to address the following components:
Identify any specific and relevant demographic characteristics of the client group e.g. age/life stage, gender, socio-economic status, cultural background, geographical location etc.
Identify a potential health concern that is likely to impact the client group related to the characteristics identified that the PHC nurse can act to prevent or mitigate.
Assessment criteria 3 – Proposed non – educational health promotion response that can be taken by primary health nurse to address the identified health need of client group.
To achieve this criterion, you would need to address the following components:
Discuss how the nurse can one of the four remaining health promotion strategies from the Ottawa Charter to minimise the risk or improve the health of the client group in relation to the health concern identified. Do not identify a strategy that involves developing personal skills i.e. an educational response.
Explain how the action/intervention you propose will work to minimise the risk or improve the health of the client group in relation to the health concern identified.
Assessment criteria 4 – Adheres to academic writing principles.
To achieve this criterion, you would need to address the following components:
Structure the essay with an appropriate introduction, body, and conclusion.
Use topic sentences and paragraphs to present a logical flow of information.
Demonstrate the integration and synthesis of ideas that are supported with citation of appropriate academic sources.
Spelling, grammar and terminology are correct.
Harvard referencing style is used for the reference list and intext citations.
Specific content guidance
Understanding what is expected – Analyse the question.
When planning your assignment, it is useful to deconstruct the assessment question and marking rubric to see what the examiner is looking for you to include in your response. In this assessment task you are required to write an essay which has three components that need to be addressed. These components are easier to identify when you separate out the assessment instructions.
Let’s review the what the assignment question and marking rubric are informing you about what is required for this task.
1. Select and examine a primary health nurse role. Analyse how a nurse employed in this role would identify the health needs of their client group.
This instruction informs you that you need to identify and describe the PHC nursing role you have selected, explaining why it can be considered a PHC role. You need to discuss what type of clients use the services provided by a nurse working in this role and how the nurse would determine the health concerns of the client group and the factors that may influence this.
2. Employing demographic characteristics of the client group, predict a relevant potential health issue.
This instruction informs you that you need to explore the common characteristics or factors influencing the health of the client group. Based on this information select a health issue that is likely to impact on people who share the identified characteristic/s. For example, the clients of a Women’s health nurse are women – 1 in 7 women are diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime in Australia (National Breast Cancer Foundation, n.d.)
3. Using the health promotion strategies identified in the Ottawa Charter, other than the development of person skills, design and justify how the primary health care nurse could work to address the health issue on behalf of their client group.
This instruction informs you that you need to consider which of the 4 remaining strategies for health promotion identified in the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion provides a suitable approach for the PHN to use to reduce the risk or improve the health outcomes of their client group. Describe what the proposed intervention activity/action is, how it will occur, and why this is likely to be successful.
Read ‘addressing the assessment criteria information’ below for a detailed breakdown of what you will need to demonstrate to achieve each criterion.
Further Information
As suggested previously – the questions and queries on AT1 are coming in regularly now in line with the fact that the submission deadline of 5th November (Bonfire Night/Fireworks Day!!) is not too far away. There are several main and consistent questions coming in – so I will attempt to address most of those by going through the assignment in a logical order and address the main questions in turn. Remember to use this announcement as part of the wide overall information available to you before you – before you commence i.e. the Unit Outline, the MyLO assessment content pages (containing assessment outlines, further guidance instructions – and the assessment marking rubric. There is also the ‘questions to the lecturer’ discussion forum with posted reponses to assessment queries – and there is the recorded Conference Webinar 1 Zoom session. Armed with that existing information – this latest announcement is designed to compliment. So – here goes:
The assignment is essentially divided in to three main components. These being:
1. The designated role and function of the PHC Nurse2. Identifying the nature and scope of the targeted client group and their identified need against your chosen health-related topic and the types of interventions/strategies that the PHC Nurse will use and employ. 3. The application of Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion principles aligned to the role and function of the PHC Nurse aligned to the adopted interventions/strategies.
Before you commence – take into account the word count limitation and the fact that you need to closely follow all the marking rubric criterion – which include all three of the main components. Each of the three components are in a logical order to follow – and each component is as important as the other and are related to and build upon each other – hence the recommendation that you apply equal quality and similar ‘weighting’ to each component.
A further ‘general’ advice is – especially for the first two main components – is to ‘check’ that you are not ‘guessing’ at PHC roles and functions and the types of intervention/strategies that they might adopt and implement. Look to the nursing literature and other online resources to confirm that such roles exists and that there are existing examples of PHC programmes that you can see ‘in action’. You can use these to support your overall evidence-base in this assessment.
Let’s take each main component in turn then – and offer advice based on ‘typical’ questions asked so far.
Role of the PHC Nurse: Think outside of the ‘acute’ role box. Avoid identifying a role that is the same as you would perform on a hospital ward. PHC-based nurses, by the very nature of the environment, setting and client encounter, mostly work very differently to ward-based nurses – and have specific PHC-based role titles. Ensure that the role encompasses principles and elements of Primary Health Care – such as community development, public health, primary health care, social determinants of health etc. The role is far more that simply ‘educating’ – especially when this often means just ‘offering health information/advice and/or teaching specific ‘medical’ tasks i.e. how to inject insulin. Groups/communities, rarely (if ever), develop collectively from such limited activities. This is why you do not have the option to choose the ‘developing personal skills (education)’ Ottawa Charter key action strategy (see third assessment component) – because of the ‘risk’ that you might automatically focus on the limited ‘default’ activity of ‘offering health information/advice’ – as a main/only activity of the PHC role.
Target group – and identified health-related need/topic: Ensure that your ‘target’ group and topic is based on a known and established need for this community-based group. Again – look to the literature and online resources to confirm this. In Primary Health Care, due to limited resources, we don’t just target any group in any community. We look to identify those who are most in need – usually ‘vulnerable and disadvantaged’ groups within specific populations/communities. There are many ways that the PHC practitioner can draw on information (sometimes called ‘community diagnosis’) that determines client groups in need of PHC support, interventions and programmes, in the community setting – such as census data, epidemiology data, existing public health policy priorities, community stakeholder engagement – such as interviews etc.
For the ‘topic’ – you need to choose a health-related issue that affects your chosen group within their community. It is best to avoid specific diseases and illnesses – as they are more likely to be ‘acute’ episodes more likely leads to medical ‘treatment’ in the community. Think more in terms of ‘preventative’ acivities and addressing social determinants of health/lifestyle issues (upstream) rather than ‘reactive’ medical/treatment of ‘disorders’ (downstream). Many/most PHC priorities relate to social determinants and lifestyle – both preventative and/or long-term management of. If your topic is ‘condition-focused’ i.e. asthma, diabetes, cardio-vascular, mental health etc – think chronic models of care (not ‘medical’ models) i.e. promoting self-management/support. If you choose a disease-related topic – again think ‘lifestyle’-related conditions (most are) – and then back to preventative/reducing further risk strategies.
Ottawa Charter for Health prompotion principles: For the final main component of this assignment you are asked to explore how the PHC nurse role, function and actions, aligned to the identified client group in need, are underpinned by the principles outlined in the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion. It is recommended, taking into account the word count limitation, that it is best to choose one or two of the most appropriate four key action strategies and examine in more detail than would be the case if you chose all four that are available to you. Ensure that what you choose are ‘relevant’ to your context and not just discussed ‘for the sake of it’ and/or ‘randomly’ chosen. The four key action strategies that are available to you are:
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