Chronic Illness Management
AIM: The aim of this assignment is for students to demonstrate an understanding of health promotion strategies, including education strategies that address the needs of clients with chronic diseases that empowers them to self-manage their condition. The provision of education to enable people to make decisions and to take actions in relation to their health is part of the role of the Registered Nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia, 2016).
TASK: 2000 words essay address the following criteria whilst referring to Marking Criteria:
- INTRODUCTION
The introduction of the essay must contextualises the assignment and identifies the aim of the assignment.
CRITERIA ONE: Context
- Using scholarly literature provide a clear overview of the chosen client’s chronic
condition/illness;
- Uses scholarly literature to clearly describe two (2) actual and/or potential health
concerns for the client;
CRITERIA TWO: Education
- Clearly Identify two (2) appropriate topics for client education (one topic for each
health concern).
- Using scholarly literature, clearly explains how each topic addresses the actual and/or potential health concern for the client and how each topic will assist the client to self-manage their chronic condition and optimise their health.
CRITERIA THREE: Application
- Using scholarly literature, clearly describes two (2) specific, appropriate client education strategies that the Registered Nurse would use to teach the chosen education topics (one strategy for each topic). Includes details of how the education will be structured and delivered.
(i.e. method/tool used, setting for education, participants to be involved, etc).
- Using scholarly literature clearly justify your decision to use each education strategy with the
particular client.
- CONCLUSION
- Has a concluding paragraph that summarises the overall assignment
- Does not introduce any new information or references in the conclusion
- Reference List – 15 dated within last 7 years -on a separate page using APA 6th edition
NOTE: ● Use a client /patient-centred and/or family-centred approach that optimises individual self-management and promotes active participation of the individual and family in illness management. ● You must support all sections of your essay with scholarly literature from the past 10 years that have DOI numbers.
Compulsory text books required to be used:
- Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia, 2016.
- Medical-surgical nursing: critical thinking for person-centred care – Priscilla LeMone, MyiLibrary 2017
Book Required resource Chapter readings will be listed within the 2807NRS Learning@Griffith course site
- Clinical psychomotor skills: Assessment tools for nurses (Revised 6th ed.) – Joanne Tollefson, Elspeth Hillman 20179780170398275
Book Recommended resource Chapter readings will be listed in the 2807NRS Learning@Griffith course site
- Chronic care nursing: a framework for practice – Judith Anderson, Linda Deravin-Malone 20161316600742,9781316600740
Book Recommended resource Chapter readings will be listed in the 2807NRS Learning@Griffith course site
PRESENTATION GUIDELINES:
Please ensure that your submitted assignment includes:
- Title Page with Essay Name & wordcount (2000 words exactly)
- Present your essay, correctly formatted as per the academic standards spacing, page number, etc, AND a correctly formatted reference list according to APA 6th edition. You do not need to include the marking criteria with your submission.
- Assemble all pages into one document. Format file is to be MS Word.
CASE STUDY
Anna Lenska
Mrs Anna Lenska is a 68 year old retired woman who, for the past 6 months, has been a client of the Community Health Service for treatment of an ulcer on her right lower leg. She has a history of hypertension and Type 2 diabetes requiring oral hypoglycaemics.
Anna is widowed, lives alone and has no immediate family. Her neighbour usually takes her to do her shopping. Her leg ulcer has been dressed twice weekly by community Registered Nurses in accordance with the wound specialist nurse’s instructions. The leg ulcer is slowly healing.
It is 7.30am and you, the community Registered Nurse, arrive at Anna’s home for the wound assessment and dressing change. Upon arrival, Anna complains that she is feeling a “bit faint” and asks you to check her blood sugar level (BSL). The BSL reading is 3.5 mmol/L. You follow the recommendations for hypoglycaemia, and Anna begins to feel better and her BSL increases to 6.2mmol/L.
On talking with Anna, you discover that she has not been eating well because her neighbour has been away and she has not been able to get out to do the shopping. She has been wearing an old pair of closed toe shoes as her other more comfortable shoes had become too broken down to wear. She also says she sometimes forgets to take her medications.
Current vital signs:
Temperature 36.5C, Blood Pressure 160/90 mmHg, Pulse 84 beats/min, and Respiratory Rate 15 breaths/min
Current medications:
- Metformin 1g PO daily
- Metoprolol 25mg PO BD
| MARKING CRITERIA | POSSIBLE MARK |
| INTRODUCTION and CONCLUSION | |
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● Assignment has as an introduction that contextualises the assignment and identifies the aim of the assignment ● Has a concluding paragraph that summarises the overall assignment ● Does not introduce any new information or references in the conclusion
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10 |
| CRITERIA ONE: Context | |
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● Using scholarly literature, provides a clear overview of the client’s condition/illness (10) ● Using scholarly literature, clearly describes two (2) actual and/or potential health concerns for the client (10)
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20 |
| CRITERIA TWO: Education | |
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Clearly identifies two (2) appropriate topics for client education (one topic for each health concern) AND Using scholarly literature, clearly explains how each topic addresses the actual and/or potential health concern for the client and how each topic will assist the client to self-manage their chronic condition and optimise their health (20)
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20 |
| CRITERIA THREE: Application | |
|
● Using scholarly literature, clearly describes two (2) specific, appropriate client education strategies that the Registered Nurse would use to teach the chosen education topics (one strategy for each topic). Includes details of how the education will be structured and delivered (20) ● Using scholarly literature, clearly justifies the decision to use each education strategy with the particular client (20)
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40 |
| PRESENTATION and STRUCTURE | |
| Conforms to the Assignment Presentation Formatting Guidelines:
● Assignment title page (not university cover page) including name, student number and word count (1) ● Does not exceed maximum 2000 word limit (excess words will not be marked) (1) ● Uses academic language throughout (1) ● Correct spelling, grammar, sentence structure and paragraphs (2)
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5 |
| REFERENCING | |
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● Essay is supported with no fewer than 15 different reference sources from recent scholarly literature include DOI numbers journals (2) ● Referencing formatted as per APA 6th Edition (3)
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5 |
| Total Marks
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100 |
