Subject Code & Title :- 401021 Being a Professional Nurse or Midwife
Assignment Type :- Assessment
Weight :- 50%
Type of Collaboration :- Individual
Length:- 1,500 words
Curriculum Mode :- Essay
401021 Being a Professional Nurse or Midwife Assessment
Essay: Critical Analysis Essay of a Case Study
Format: All assignments are to be typed.
Typing must be according to the following format:
- Three (3) cm left and right margins, double spaced
- Font: Arial or Times New Roman
- Font size: 12pt
See further submission requirements below - All borrowings from other sources must be properly referenced and a reference list must be included at the end of the assignment
- In-text citations and refrence list must be APA7 format
Word count :-
There is a word limit of 1500 words. Use your computer to total the number of words used in your assignment. How ever do not include the reference list at the end of your assignment in the word count. In-text citations will be included in the additional 10% word count. If you exceed the word limit by more than 10% the marker will stop marking at 1500 plus 10%.
401021 Being a Professional Nurse or Midwife Assessment
Aim of assessment :-
The aim of this assessment is to develop your understanding evaluating the professional conduct of a nurse midwife in the case study provided. The case study provided is a decision statement selected from Decisions of the Professional Standards Committee from the Nursing and Midwifery Council New South Wales – The Health Care Complains Comission (HCCC). You are to identify professional practice issues from the case study and then draw on the professional frameworks and regulatory legislation, to develop sound and appropriate responses to the clinical incident that will inform your future practice.
401021 Being a Professional Nurse or Midwife Assessment
Details :-
This assessment requires you to identify and summarise the professional practice issues in the case study from either a nursing or midwifery practice perspective. You need to identify and evaluate relevant professional errors identified that potentially contributed to the incident happening. Finally discuss on how your future practice might change and develop as a result of this learning.
Students are to draw on the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards NMBA professional practice documents and NSW Health policy documents (where appropriate) to develop informed responses.
Students must refer to and use the case studies located on vUWS under Assessment 3 tab for this assessment. There is one nursing case study and one midwifery case study to choose from.
401021 Being a Professional Nurse or Midwife Assessment
Submission requirements :-
Electronic copy only. Students are to submit an electronic copy of the assessment. Students are not required to submit the original hard copy of their assessment on campus.
Submit your assessment electronically through the Turnitin link on the unit vUWS site.
Students are to upload the assessment with the following title; Surname_Firstname_assessment title.
Your assessment must be submitted in .doc, docx format.
401021 Being a Professional Nurse or Midwife Assessment
This assessment is marked online; no paper copy will be accepted.
Marks comments and the marking criteria will be released online. If you do not receive your marked assessment when all others have been returned it is your responsibility to contact the Unit Coordinator for assistance.
Resources :-
i. Please refer to the unit’s vUWS site for specific unit resources.
ii. There are a number of textbooks and resources available through the Western Sydney University Library that may assist you.
ii. Assessments listed as individual assessments must be completed independently. Students are advised to refer back to their notes text books or appropriate academic peer-reviewed resources utilised during unit delivery.