Assessment Brief: Students will be required to submit a structured essay based on one of the three scenarios available to them in advance relating to assessment and care Process. This will take the format of a 2500-word structured essay, which addresses all the module learning outcomes. This accounts for 100% of your overall mark. Using the information in the scenario the essay will examine the students knowledge and skills necessary to assess and deliver safe and effective care. Critically reflect on the use of a person centred and recovery focused approach when assessing and planning care and critically discuss the barriers and challenges of delivering collaborative person-centred care, supporting this with evidence. Critically reflect on the experience of assessment and the importance of assessing for trauma. Prioritise the needs from the assessment/scenario and identify the main need and goal of your care plan and the evidenced based interventions you would use to meet the needs of the service user using a recovery focused approach. Discuss the strategies you would use to evaluate care. Discuss how you would involve the wider inter-professional and immediate nursing team and the in the delivery of nursing care. 1. Introduction? Your introduction should include the following: ? A brief overview of the scope of the structured essay (what do you intend to do). 1: Explore the importance of a person centred and recovery focused approach to the nursing care of people and families. ? You should discuss/ explore the importance of person centred and recovery approach to enable the delivery of safe and effective care. Explore /discuss how these principles can impact on the quality of care and the experience of the patient you are planning care for. ? Learning Outcome 2:Apply knowledge of collaborative assessment (including trauma assessment) to inform care planning, decision making and goal setting with service users and carers. ? Identify actual and potential needs using a biopsychosocial approach to your assessment including the a clinical assessment tool you used or may use to identify needs, providing a rationale for the assessment model. Demonstrate how you would use a collaborative approach to identifying needs and and consider aspects of trauma which may impact on the mental health of the person in the scenario. ? identify a key need and your rationale for identifying this need, with reference to supportive literature and relevant clinical guidelines (such as those produced by NICE) ? Identify a goal to meet the identified need and demonstrate a recovery focused, strengths based approach to planning care. ? Learning Outcome 3: Appraise evidence-based, collaborative person centred care plans and evaluation strategies. ? Demonstrate critical analysis of your chosen evidenced based interventions and demonstrate how you would evaluate these interventions. This means that you should demonstrate a good understanding of your chosen interventions and critique them with evidence. You should also provide a clear strategy to demonstrate how you would evaluate your interventions. ? Learning Outcome 4: Appraise the legal, ethical and professional implications of the delivery of mental health nursing care. ? Demonstrate knowledge of the legal, ethical and professional implications of nursing care and critically appraise the evidence supporting this. ? Learning Outcome 5: Reflect on the nursing contribution to effective interdisciplinary working in mental health nursing care. ? Reflect on the role of the nurse within the interdisciplinary team and how you would work with the interdisciplinary team to plan and evaluate care. 3. Conclusion (approx. 250 words) ? Provide an overall conclusion that refers to the evidence and effectively concludes your discussion and arguments. **Julian is the patient I will be writing on: 1. Julian’s identified actual and potential needs and an identified goal 2. Suggested interventions which are supported with evidence and references 3. A strategy to evaluate your interventions Make sure your interventions are collaborative and recovery focused
