NUR09123 Level 9 Promoting Excellence in Older People’s Care Assignment

This section should be no more than 200 words.

Presentation in the essay:

Outline your case study and the problems in a paragraph in the essay.  Any further detail can be put in the appendix

Using no more than 200-300 words.

Is divided into three sections

This should discuss international and national policies that relate to your case study.

You then need to broaden the discussion and relate the national/local policies you have chosen to your case study.

For example: You might want to take one or two examples and critically discuss them. For example you might want to explore pensions or the lack of pension and explore the impact on your case study and how this aligns with older people’s health generally.

This section is approximately 600 words.  

This is written in academic style (3rd person) and must be supported by evidence from your reading.

You will discuss one ageing theory explaining how it relates with your case study and where it does not.

You will discuss one ageing theory. There is an expectation that the theory you choose will be critically discussed – in terms of the strengths and weakness of the theory. There is a requirement to link discussions of the theory to the case study.  So you need to explain how the theory fits with your case study and where it does not.

This section is approximately 600 words.  

The work should be written in academic style (3rd person) and supported by evidence from the literature.

You will discuss one nursing theory that relate to your case study

You will then choose one theory to discuss in detail. You need to critically analyse how these are used, i.e. their strengths and weaknesses and relate these to your case study.

For example, you may choose to discuss person-centered care. You would explain what this is and support your statements with relevant literature about the topic but also relate this to your particular case study.

This section is approximately 600 words.

This should be written in academic style (3rd person) and supported by evidence from your reading. 

You will see that the template asks for:

1.    three main problems

2.    No more than 3 interventions per problem

3.    A rationale for your decisions of care.

4.    . your short and long term goals

This should include a reference that supports the intervention you suggest.

For example, one presenting problem may be pain.  An intervention might be to monitor their pain effectively. In your rationale you may choose a pain management strategy and here you would need to evidence base this with a reference from the literature.   Also outline the short and long term goals. 

This section is approximately 1000 words.

This should be written in academic style (3rd person) and supported by evidence from your reading.

200 words

Select good quality evidence to support your writing.

The writing should be clear and be proof read prior to submission. 

(For this module Scottish Credit and Qualification Framework (SCQA) Level 9 (this defines the standard of credits across Scotland and enables students to map their level of credits) is the level expected of all students  – undergraduate regulations apply).

To pass a SCQF level 9 module at the first attempt, a student must achieve a minimum module mark of 40 per cent. The module mark will be derived from the component or components of assessment.

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This means that you will produce a logical coherent and well-argued section with excellent sources of literature to support your assertions. Within the module you will have been supplied with appropriate reading materials however, you are expected to go beyond this to formulate your own argument based on the literature you have selected and reviewed.  An ability to write succinctly and within the word count is expected as is writing in the third person (e.g. the author).

Please see the following link for support in your writing. Also see Moodle.

The marker is looking for a high-quality evidence based discussion/outline and marks will be awarded for analytical well written and supported statements that reflect level 9 of the SCQA framework.

In January – you will receive an email from announcements in Moodle

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