Essay 10203: Integrated Nursing Concepts – Communication of Activities of Living – Nursing Assignment Help

Assignment Task:

Addresses unit learning outcomes: 

1. Articulate the role assessment has in determining nursing care for individuals, families and communities.

2. Discuss the role of effective planning, delivery and evaluation of nursing care.

3. Engage at a foundational level with contemporary evidence to inform nursing practice.

4. Practice in ways that ensure care is respectful and supportive of people with diverse backgrounds.

5. Articulate the need and identify strategies for nurses to use effective communication within the healthcare team.

6. Explain how reflection supports safe and quality nursing practice. 

Related graduate attributes: 

UC graduates are professional: 

• Communicate effectively; 

• Display initiative and drive, and use their organisational skills to plan and manage their workload; 

• Employ up-to-date and relevant knowledge and skills; 

• Take pride in their professional and personal integrity; 

UC graduates are global citizens: 

• Adopt an informed and balanced approach across professional and international boundaries; 

• Behave ethically and sustainably in their professional and personal lives; 

• Think globally about issues in their profession. 

UC graduates are lifelong learners: 

• Adapt to complexity, ambiguity and change by being flexible and keen to engage with new ideas; 

• Be self-aware; 

• Reflect on their own practice, updating and adapting their knowledge and skills for continual professional and academic development. 

Task: 

Students are required to consider and reflect on their learning this semester relating to the assessment and communication of activities of living. 

Using the following: 

• The Roper-Logan-Tierney Model for Nursing (Holland & Jenkins,2019); 

• ‘Cues’ and ‘Judgements’ from The Situated Clinical Decision-Making Framework (Gillespie & Patterson 2009); and 

• Borton’s (1970) Model of Reflection (Smith, James, Adamson & Gentleman, 2016), 

When preparing your reflection to consider and include the following: 

• Introduction – A brief overview of what you plan to discuss (short paragraph). 

• Define the essentials of care. 

• What? – Describe your experience this semester in relation to the assessment and communication of activities of living on a dependence/independence continuum and factors influencing activities of living. 

• So What? – What cues (data/information/things you noticed) did you identify from your experiences this semester that shaped your judgements (understanding) about your personal role in assessing and communicating essentials of care for future practice? 

• Now What? – What could you and/or need to do now to enable you to effectively assess and communicate essentials of care for future practice? 

• Conclusion – A brief summary of what you discussed (short paragraph, no new information). 

We encourage you to use your journaling notes from seminars to assist you with this assessment.