Demonstrate how your work as a healthcare professional has been influenced by social structures and agency in the delivery of care.
Assignment:
You are required to demonstrate and reflect on how the sociological impact of policy, agency and social structures has influenced your ability to deliver effective care. Lived examples from practice are required on which to base your discussions. Suggestions on how you might manage similar situations in the future in your continuing professional development are expected.
A formal academic style is required. However, the use of the first person is permitted where reflection is incorporated into the submission.
word limit: 2000 (excluding reference and appendices)
– Demonstrate broad reading around ‘structure and agency’ see the reading list and lecture notes.
– Gather data from placement experience and consider how your evidence assists in answering the question.
– Consider your role (as an agent) in influencing the context you choose.
– Consider how other agents, systems and communities might be inextricably interlinked and the implications in health care
– Consider the extent to which an individual’s choice of action is constrained or enhanced by the social structures and their own agency.
– Discuss any challenges when seeking to bring about improvements in care
