Summative assessment:

Aims:

This essay aims to:

Encourage you to consolidate, apply and critically appraise two advancing nursing skills that you will be expected to undertake as a registered graduate nurse.

Enable you to explore and appreciate the significance of these advancing nursing skills and how they influence your holistic care, clinical decision-making, situational judgement, and leadership skills.

Enable you to explore and critically appraise the evidence-base that will inform your nursing practice.  

Allow you to critically evaluate and appraise your learning as you prepare to be a registered nurse.

Learning Outcomes:

Act in accordance with the Code; Professional standards of practice; behaviours; lifestyle and personal fitness and well-being for nurses to fulfil registration requirements.

Perform required advanced nursing and assessment skills to meet individual’s and family’s needs.

Critically analyse knowledge of commonly encountered mental, physical, health conditions, to inform nursing assessment and the development and review of

person-centred nursing care plans (includes the ability to perform all nursing procedures and manage devices required to meet people’s needs for effective interventions and

person centred nursing care)

Working in partnership with individuals and families, communicate effectively

using a range of skills and strategies with diverse groups of people, in different

situations enabling people to be empowered and make informed choices

Critical Evaluation Essay:

You are expected to write a 2000-word critical evaluation which appraises the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to undertake advancing nursing skills and the implications of this for your role as a registered nurse. You will be required to identify two advancing nursing skills and evaluate how these ensure the provision of safe and compassionate care. Please look at the assignment presentation for the list of skills.

You must include an evaluation of the significance of your learning and explore the implications of this for your future practice and development. Relevant literature must be appraised and evidenced to inform your commentary.

Your word count includes all words and characters that make up the body of your work. This includes any abstract, headings, tables, diagrams, quotations, citations and footnotes.  It does not include the title of your work.  The word count does not include the reference list at the end of your work. It also does not include information contained in any appendices.  Please make sure that any information which is essential to your work is included in the body of your work and not added to appendices.