NURS20158 Clinical Foundations For Practice

This assessment relates to the following Learning Outcomes:

1. Examine the nursing actions associated with the use of pharmacology and other types of biological treatments.
2. Explore safety and therapeutic implications for the mental health nurse in relation to medication and other types of biological treatments across mental health settings.

Aim

The aim of this assessment is to  examine the Coroner’s Report from August 17, 2017, which relates to the case of JJKD, who died by drowning, while in the care of a mental health service. Consider what occurred and demonstrate a critical understanding of how alternative nursing actions, such as advocacy, psychoeducation and family involvement, may have prevented this adverse outcome.

Instructions

 Part 1: Written component

1. Download the Non-inquest findings into the death of JJKD 17/08/2017 from Coroner’s Court of Queensland and develop a timeline of JJKD’s involvement in the mental health service. The timeline should highlight:

• Where you consider JJKD’s recovery may have been compromised;
• Important milestones where effective clinical nursing interventions would have been appropriate;
• Appropriate nursing interventions for that point in the timeline;
• How you would have intervened, as a practising mental health nurse.

You will need to support your determinations with peer reviewed evidenced based literature.

2. Review all prescribed psychotropic medications in this case and identify:

• The metabolic pathways;
• Matters of concern in relation to the prescribed medications;
• Any early warning signs of adverse reactions to the medication;
• Any advanced clinical nursing interventions that should have been utilised in relation to the adverse reactions.

3. Utilising appropriate literature, examine issues relating to the concurrent use of the medications prescribed.
4. Include a synthesis of your paper that includes at least five major ‘take home’ lessons that have been evident from engagement with the report. A suggestion would be to include this immediately prior to your conclusion.

Part 2 Audio-visual

Provide a video or audio of yourself overviewing your work from Part 1 of this assessment and demonstrate how this could be used as an educational tool for colleagues. In your presentation include:

• An overview of the Coroner’s report.
• The timeline.
• What, in your opinion, went wrong.
• The salient learnings that could assist mental health nurses to manage these risk factors in the future.

(Length of presentation: 5- 10 mins)

Literature and references

In this assessment use literature of no more than 10 years old (from peer-reviewed sources) to demonstrate broad consideration of your alternate nursing interventions.

You may also use seminal scholarly literature where relevant.

Suitable references include peer-reviewed journal articles as well as textbooks and credible websites.

When sourcing information, consider the five elements of a quality reference: currency, authority, relevance, objectivity, and coverage. Grey literature sourced from the internet must be from reputable websites such as from government, university, or peak national bodies: for example, the Australian College of Nursing.

Requirements

• Use a conventional and legible size 12 font, such as Times New Roman or Arial, with 1.5 line spacing and 2.54cm page margins (standard pre-set margin in Microsoft Word).
• Include page numbers on each page in a footer.
• Use formal academic language
• Use the seventh edition American Psychological Association (APA) referencing style. The CQUniversity Academic Learning Centre has an online APA Referencing Style Guide.
• Word count is calculated from the first word of the introduction to the last word of the conclusion. The word count INCLUDES in-text references and direct quotations.
• The word count does NOT include cover page, abstract, contents page, reference page and appendices.

Resources

The quality and credibility of your sources are important.

It is recommended that you access your discipline specific library guide: the Nursing Resource Guide; Midwifery Resource Guide;

You may use EndNote to manage your citations and reference list. More information on how to use EndNote is available at the CQUniversity Library website.

Submit a draft before the due date to review your Turnitin Similarity Score before making a final submission. Instructions are available here.

Submission

Submit your assessment via the unit Moodle site in Microsoft Word format only.

Resubmission

If  you receive a Fail for this assessment, you will be allowed to re-attempt the assessment.

Your assessment re-attempt must be  completed and submitted within 7 days of receiving a mark for the initial assessment.

You do not have to start over you can edit and adjust your original submission based on the feedback you have received.

Please note that that the maximum marks for a re-attempt is 50% of the available marks for the assessment. 

If you do decide not to re-attempt, your original Fail mark will be applied.