Assessment :- Assessment Task 3
Assessment Title and type :- Critical Analysis of care within Mental Health
Word Count :- 2,500 words (+/- 10%) Includes in-text references excludes end-text References
Weighting :- 50%
Associated Learning Outcomes :-
1.Critically review historical and contemporary of mental health and mental illness
2.Explore the emergence of the recovery model within mental health nursing practice and consider its implications for future care
3.Critically analyse the ethico-legal requirements that guide treatment of people living with mental illness with in health care settings.
NURS1066 Critical Analysis of Care Within Mental Health Assignment – AU

Background Information:
In this essay you are required to select a particular mental illness that has been covered in this unit that has been experienced by a consumer you were involved with clinically please ensure to note the clinical environment this takes place). You will be required to provide a brief summary of the consumer for context such as the various psychosocial and physical impacts mental illness can have. Please remember to de identify your consumer for confidentiality purposes.

You are to discuss the aetiology, diagnostic criteria, and impact from the consumers perspective regarding the particular mental illness you have selected. You will then need to identify and evaluate practice guidelines such as ones published by NICE or Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP). By critically evaluating the chosen guideline you need to examine how your chosen consumers treatment within the particular clinical area (Inpatient Unit Community Continuing Care Emergency Department (as a few examples) aligns with the guidelines and what gaps or challenges there may be.

Instructions:
Read the following instructions carefully to complete this part of the assessment for this course.

1.You are required to select a mental illness covered in this unit and identify a consumer you have been involved with clinically.
a. Outline the aetiology of the chosen mental illness and diagnostic criteria.

Assessment Task 1 Instructions
b. Provide a brief background summary of the consumer including possible impacts the mental illness has had on the consumer.
c. Identify and analyse a clinical practice guideline relevant to the mental illness from sources such as NICE, RANZCP (can be other sources).
d. Based on your analysis of clinical practice guideline evaluate how the treatment and holistic care of the consumer aligns with the guidelines and any possible gaps you are able to identify.

2. You must support your work with references. This means that you will need to review and integrate relevant literature (not just guidelines) that supports your discussion right throughout your report.

3.Please post all questions upon the Canvas Discussion Boards as this will allow all students to benefit from the answers.

Submission Guidelines:
In keeping with RMIT policy all assignments are to be submitted through the Turnitin Portal available via the course web page.

The report is due by 23:59 on Thursday night: the portal will remain open until one week after this time (to allow for extension submissions) this time however after the portal closes you will not be able to submit your report so please make sure that it is submitted by 23:59.

The Turnitin portal will open 2 weeks prior to the report due date to allow you to submit your report. You can submit it as many times as you would like up until 23:59; the report marked will be the LAST one you submitted.

To be accepted your Assignment submission MUST generate a Similarity Score (you are responsible for checking this). Submitting in Word or Pdf format is the best way to do this. If your submission does not generate a similarity score it cannot be checked for plagiarism and therefore will not be marked.

NURS1066 Critical Analysis of Care Within Mental Health Assignment – AU

Assignment Format Requirements:
1.A Title Page must be attached to the front of each assessment. The title page is not given a page number. It must contain:
a. The Program code and title: GD158: Graduate Diploma of Mental Health Nursing.
b. Course Code & Title: NURS1066: Context of Mental Health Nursing
c. Title of the assignment.
d. Your Name and Student Number.
e. The Academic to whom the assignment is to be submitted to (Sarah McFadyen).
f. The due date of the assignment.
g. The word limit and your word count.

2.The assignment must be typed in Times New Roman (or similar) size 12 font.

3. A Table of Contents [including page numbers] should be included following the title page if headings are used (as per APA style).

4.Text must be 1.5 spaced.

5.A margin of 3 cm on the left side of each page and margins or 2.5cm each at the right side top and bottom of each page are required.

6.Main headings for each section you are discussing should be bolded and left justified one double space above the first line of text.

7.Pages must be numbered consecutively in the top right-hand corner beginning at the Introduction i.e. page one of your text.

8.On each page (in the footer) is to be recorded your name & student number.

9. It is expected that a file copy of each written assignment will be kept by the student until the assessment has been marked.

10. Referencing must be completed utilising the APA referencing style at all times in the assignment.The guide for this is available on the RMIT Library Web page.

NURS1066 Critical Analysis of Care Within Mental Health Assignment – AU

Referencing & Writing
Additional requirements for your writing include:
• Students are to show evidence of research into the topic including reading beyond the required basic literature set for this course.
• References used must be relevant to the topic and must be contemporary (within the last 10 years).
• The types of references used can include textbooks, journal articles professional organisations and government policies. Students should research the topic through the RMIT Library databases and e‐journals.
• Students are discouraged from using any internet information that is from an unauthorised or non‐professional organisation or written for the general public rather than health care professionals (such as personal Web logs Wikipedia).