Unit 06: – Understanding Stroke Care
Scenario
Learners may use their own employment context to write an assignment based on assessment
tasks. Assessment tasks are learning outcomes of the unit associated with Assessment Criteria.
Assessment criteria are descriptions of requirements a learner is expected to meet to demonstrate
that a learning outcome has been achieved. Therefore, you are required to generate sufficient
evidence on assessment criteria to meet learning outcomes of the unit within the rules, regulations
and standards to achieve credits of the unit. If you are not in employment, please use the following
scenario.
Consider you are working a Care Professional for a public or private company that provide
information relating to Cerebrovascular Accident with an aim to improve overall health services of
the population. Your company line manager has asked you to write a report for to look at the role
of acute care in maximising a positive outcome and the longer-term treatment supplied by the
rehabilitation team. You will write a report to identify causes and effects of Cerebrovascular
Accident, examine the risk factors associated with it and then examine the treatment and support
available for service users following a CVA and their families by meeting the following tasks in
line with general guidelines. Your report will be used by the specialised Stroke unit within your
organisation for improvement purposes.
Task 1
Understand the causes and effects of Cerebrovascular Accident (CVA) by meeting following A.C.
(Assessment Criteria)
Guideline word count: 900-1000 words
A.C. 1.1. Explain the different types of CVA
A.C. 1.2. Discuss the signs and symptoms of left sided and right sided CVA
A.C. 1.3. Analyse the reasons for different presentations of signs and symptoms with regard to
physiology of brain
Task 2
Examine the risk factors associated with a Cerebrovascular accident (CVA) and common
investigations associated with diagnosis by meeting following A.C. (Assessment Criteria)
A.C. 2.1. Discuss the risk factors associated with a CVA and preventative health measures
A.C. 2.2. Compare and contrast the available investigations associated with diagnosis of CVA
Task 3
Examine the treatment and support available for service users following a CVA and their families
by meeting following A.C. (Assessment Criteria)
Guideline word count: 900-1500 words
A.C. 3.1. Describe the acute and long term care post CVA.
A.C. 3.2. Discuss the roles and interventions of the rehabilitation team
A.C. 3.3. Evaluate the effectiveness of care in a specialised stroke unit on outcomes
Overall word count guide: 2500 – 3500
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