Assignment Guidance
Write a 1600 word essay, incorporating the requirements of the different sections as set out below. (There is a 10% word allowance – meaning you may write up to 1760 words). The sections reflect the content of specific themes taught/referred to within in the module.
Assignment Content
Introduction (100 words).
Whilst maintaining confidentiality, briefly describe a patient/service user. This can be someone you have cared for in a clinical environment, or someone who is known to you, e.g. a family member or a friend. Explain why they have received, or are receiving care and what their current health issues are.
Section 1-Determinants of Health (350words).
Identify one health inequality and discuss what impact this has on the health or wellbeing of the patient/service user.
To answer this section successfully you must:
Identify one health inequality.
State and discuss at leastone impact the health inequality has on either the health orwellbeing of the patient/service user.
Section 2–Using Evidence to Improve Nursing Care (600words)
From your discussion, identify and analyse onerelevant piece of research or policy which relates to quality orsafety.
To answer this section successfully you must:
Identify one piece of research or a policy which relates to your chosen patient/serviceuser.
Analyse how this research or policy could improve the quality or safety of the nursingcare your patient/service user receives.
Section 3 –Self-Management and Ethics (400words)
Critically discuss one approach by which the nurse may help the patient/service userto manage their own health and analyse an underpinning ethical principle.
To answer this section successfully you must:
Identify one self-management initiative,and discuss how this could empower the patient/service user to increase the management of their own health.
Choose one of the ethical principles shown below,and analyse how it relates to the role ofthe nurse in empowering patients:
1) Beneficence,
2) Non-maleficence,
3) Autonomy or
4)Justice.
Conclusion (150words)
Conclude the essay by connecting your discussion with the relevant United Nation’s (2015) Sustainable Development Goal(s).
