Coordinating Care for Complex Health Needs NRS 705
Module Assessment Level 7
Word Count: 3500
Title: Coordinating the care of a patient with complex health needs
- Provide a critical response to current policy imperatives which impact upon health and social care delivery.
- Demonstrate a critical response to existing theoretical discourses around the principles of partnership, collaboration and inter-agency working
- Demonstrate a deep and systematic understanding of care coordination for complex needs
- Demonstrate a deep and systematic knowledge of legislation pertinent to care co-ordination
Essay Guidelines
This essay should showcase your specialized area of knowledge and understanding of how care is co-ordinated for complex health needs in a Child, Adult or Mental Health case. You should select a patient which represents this group from scenarios created within the module. Explain why their health needs require long term health interventions/inputs to demonstrate your understanding of the importance of partnership, collaboration and inter-agency working. You are required to analyze the relevant policy and legislation in relation to care co-ordination and critically evaluate the extent to which their care is co-ordinated. Your work should have a strong evidence base, include references from a wide range of sources, recognizing the complexities and alternative approaches in the literature.
Note: this work is about care co-ordination not the condition.
Your assignment should be 3,500 words (no 10% allowance +/-).
You can normally expect your provisional mark (which is subject to change at the subject panel) four weeks after your hand in date
Essay Guidance
The guide below will help you to focus and set out your piece of work for this module.
Remember that this work is about ‘Care Co-ordination’ and not about the patient’s condition.
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Start with a really strong introduction which pulls the reader in. Outline the scope of your assignment providing a small amount of context for the reader, this will help to show that you are on the right track. Avoid launching into facts a figures from the outset and avoid direct quotes. When you quote directly it just shows that you can copy. The introduction can be written last if you would prefer so that you capture all of the information found within your essay.
Important: Please note there is no need to write an overview of your patient in the introduction but you can introduce them.
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Main Body
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This is where you show your reading and level of understanding about complexity and is your time to showcase your understanding. Before you begin the main body I would expect an extensive amount of reading to have been completed and notes written. Once this is done go back to the learning outcomes and re-read these carefully. When you begin to read for a piece of work it is easy to go off on a tangent so make sure that you are focused on what the essay requires.
The main body should include the following detail which should all relate back to your chosen patient.
An overview of the policy that impacts on the delivery of their care needs with evidence of critical analysis using balanced arguments.
Acknowledgement of the legislation which helps to co-ordinate their care using a systematic approach. Critically evaluated with balanced arguments.
Analysis and discussion in detail of the principles of joint working and applied to your patient/family member.
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| Conclusion
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Draw together the points made within your work highlighting the overall findings. Don’t forget that this part is also really important. Students sometimes tend to quickly rush the conclusions but its so important to bring things together. It finishes your work and shows another level of understanding.Draw together the points made within your work highlighting the overall findings |
