Principles of Personalised Care
Module Leaders
If you have any personal questions that do not get answered during timetabled sessions, or have a Reasonable Adjustment Plan (RAP), please contact Mandy Kelly or Lorna McGlynn
How to submit
Turnitin is used for the eSubmission of your assignments. It is an online tool that you use to upload your work so that it can be marked by the module team. You must access Turnitin from the Voices & Choices Blackboard site> Summative assessment>Principles of Personalised care.
Find out more about eSubmission here
When you submit your assignment please enter your student roll number as the title of the Word file.
Summative Assessment task details and instructions
Personalised care as identified in the NHS Long Term Plan (2019) promotes the nurse to consider the ‘person’ as opposed to the ‘patient’ (NHS England, 2019; Nursing and Midwifery Council [NMC], 2018).
In doing so, you will need to use appropriate communication skills and interpersonal skills to support and enable people to make informed choices within their episodes of care. This assessment will centre around a person’s story of an episode of care. You will need to choose one story/experience and address the assessment criteria set out under ‘Assessment Criteria’.
Here are some useful links containing stories you may want to consider.
NHS Patient Stories
Institute for healthcare improvement – Patient stories
Health talk – Real People, Real life experiences
Patient Voices – Insight through first-person stories…
To FULLY meet the assessment criteria, you need to:
• Briefly summarise the persons episode of care and describe the importance of partnership working between the nurse and person in relation to personalised care and support planning.
This links to Learning Outcome (IOL) 2. See page 3
• Explain how a nurse can use communication and interpersonal skills within this person’s episode of care, in identifying what matters to the person.
This Links to Learning Outcome (ILO) 3 see page 3
• Describe one advantage of and one barrier to interprofessional teamwork in relation to the persons episode of care.
This Links to Learning Outcome (ILO) 4 see page 3
This Links to Learning Outcome (ILO) 5 see page 3
It is essential that you maintain any individual’s anonymity. You should use pseudonyms for all names: patient, staff, clinical area, Trust and so on. Please read the Confidentiality guidelines within this Assessment tab.
Presentation/formatting guidelines:
• Your student roll number should be the title of the Word file. Do not insert your name anywhere in your assignment or on Turnitin.
• Type your essay in font size 12 or larger and fully justify your formatted text. Number all pages.
• Use line spacing 1.5 in the main body of your assignment and single line spacing in your final reference list at the end of your assignment.
• Your ‘in-text’ citations and final reference list should be written in APA 6th (Harvard) style. Please use the University of Salford’s referencing handbook to avoid errors in referencing – see guide here
• Provide a final word count (not including your final reference list) at the end of your assignment. The word limit is 3000 words.
