NUR1201 Nursing Essay-RMIT University Australia.

Essay: The Age 40 Non-Indigenous Australian Caucasian Male OR the ‘Indigenous Australian Female Aboriginal Patient Experience and Partnering in Care.
NUR1201 Nursing Essay-RMIT University Australia.

Assessment 1 Item assists you to develop the knowledge and skills to evaluate the patient experience using The ICN Code of Ethics for Nurses (International Council of Nurses [ICN], 2012), the Code of Conduct for Nurses in Australia (Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia [NMBA], 2018), and the Registered Nurse Standards for Practice (NMBA, 2016), as well as the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards (Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care [ACSQHC],
2017) as key measures, along with other relevant literature. Thus this assignment allows you to implement this knowledge and skill to prepare you for your professional role as a Registered Nurse (RN), evaluating patient/family care experiences and partnering with patients/families. The aim of evaluating care is to provide recommendations for reform
that will improve the quality of care and the patient/family experience. Additionally, this assessment will assist you to develop the Graduate Attributes 1, 2, 3, 4 & 6.

Length: 1500-word essay (+- 10%) (word length includes in-text referencing and excludes your reference list)

Objectives measured
1.Describe the nature, context and importance of the patient care experience and partnering in care within the contemporary health organisational climate.

2.Examine the patient experience, patient centred care and partnering in care definitions and reflect on the importance of these definitions in health care delivery.

3.Examine patient experience through the concepts of dignity, respect, confidentiality and collaborative decision making.

4.Examine themes that facilitate or act as barriers to the patient experience and partnering in care within health organisations.

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5.Identify and apply key Australian governances that promote and uphold professional and ethical care of patients that enable them control over their environment, manner of living and health care.

Task detail: Background Information
Patients and families are often on the receiving end of care and are thus positioned well to reflect, comment and share their care experience to key stakeholders whose goals are to improve patient safety, quality of care and the patient/family experience. Improving the patient care experience can be challenging and nurses need to be equipped with knowledge about relevant evidenced based theory to help them inform their care practice. For example the nursing governances and nursing philosophies that guide the application of nursing care practice, and other related theory/contemporary evidenced based literature and strategies that will help engage nurses with patients and their families to improve their future care experiences.

Instructions: Choose ONE of the following Age 40 Patient Experience and Partnering in Care Interviews:
1.‘Non-Indigenous Australian Caucasian Male Experience’
2.‘Indigenous Australian Female Aboriginal Experience

The Age 40 Patient Experience and Partnering in Care Interview Recordings are located on the left side of the NUR1201 Study Desk page, under the label ‘Panopto’.

1.Write a 1500 word essay on ONE of the above ‘Age 40 Patient experience and partnering in care’ interviews and analyse the care experience, with the intention to improve the future care experiences of Age 40 patients and their families.

To support your essay argument, include relevant literature (theory) (refer to point number 2.) you will draw upon to analyse and discuss the Age 40 Patient experience, as well as to recommend and justify future partnering in care strategies to improve the Age 40 patient experience.

2.Relevant literature (theory):
 nursing philosophy (for example, person centred and or family centred care; holistic care)
 a nursing governance and specific Standard/or Value statement or Principle (for example, Code of Conduct for Nurses; The ICN Code of Ethics for Nurses; Registered Nurse Standards for Practice)
 a National Safety and Quality Health Service Standard (for example
Standard 2, Partnering with Consumers)
 Erikson’s 8 Stage framework (focus on a relevant stage)
 Other relevant readings (for example any of your weekly NUR1201
readings)

To guide you with essay structure
Body of essay
3.Define and or briefly describe your choice of: a nursing philosophy; nursing governance standard, value statement/& or principle; one National Safety and Quality Health Service Standard and one stage from Erikson’s 8 Stages and justify/explain how these are relevant to your chosen Age 40 Patient Experience and Partnering in Care.(One paragraph: Word count guide 250 words)

4.Analyse the Age 40 Patient Experience by identifying ineffective and effective care and justify your determination of this care level. Draw upon relevant literature to support your analysis.
(Two paragraphs: 550 words Word count per paragraph = 275 words)

5.Recommend how the Age 40 patient care experience can be improved by
implementing ‘partnering in care’ strategies.Provide examples of suitable ‘partnering in care’ strategies at the individual,department/ward and organisational levels.(One paragraph: Word count guide 200 words )

6.Justify your choice of ‘partnering in care’ recommendations with reference to literature. (Include your justification as part of the previous paragraph. Add on another 50 words – guide only)

NUR1201 Nursing Essay-RMIT University Australia.

Writing Style
1.Correct Academic Writing as per USQ guidelines
2.Your assignment should be completed in Word format.
3.Include your name, student number and page number in the footer.
4.Writing in the third person
5.Attach the marking rubric to the assignment

Referencing /citations
1.APA 7th Edition Referencing
2.In-text citation is required
3.A full reference list is required at the end of the assignment
For further information on APA 7th edition referencing at

Contemporary literature must be sourced (no more than 7 years old; seminal literature acceptable)

Formatting Style
Essay formatting style: This includes: Ist line of each paragraph is indented; Margins: 2cm on 4 sides; & Double spacing line spacing (2 line spacing); Font size: 12 Times New Roman Times, No subheadings, include page numbers

Submission information
What you need to submit
1.On a word doc include your name and student number and marking rubric.
2.On this same word document, insert page numbers
3.Adherence to the stated word limit is required
4.All parts of the assessment should be attempted

Submission requirements
This assessment task must:
• Use APA or Other referencing for citing academic literature
 Be submitted in electronic format as Microsoft Word document via the online submission link on the NUR1201 Study Desk, located under the Assessment tab – Assessment 1 Item.

Turnitin (text matching software) submission requirements
Turnitin – Text matching from intellectual sources software
Please note, when submitting your assignment as a word document, it will be automatically checked via Turnitin.

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Submitting through Turnitin is required before final submission.
The Turnitin process may take up to 24 hours to produce a report. Therefore, allow adequate time to do this and address any issues of text matching in your essay detected by Turnitin before final submission.
*Any percentage that relates to content text matching in your essay detected by Turnitin is a concern and requires you to address this. This means, ignore any percentage that highlights the Assessment instructions and marking rubric.

The following link provides information on Turnitin (sourced from USQ learning centre). There is a drop-down box that you can click. From this, you will be able to view a variety of questions and answers that will help most queries.