Promoting Excellence in Older People’s Care, Essay

Promoting excellence in older people’s Care Assignment – Level 9

Assessment | Marks | Guidance

Introduction
Write an introduction to your essay.

Focus on aging. Aging population | 5 marks |

The introduction should act as a guide to the reader and help signpost them through your essay. This section should outline precisely the areas you will be talking about. For example, if you simply talk about nursing or aging theories, this is not sufficient—you need to identify and describe how this theory relates to the care you provide and/or the assessment of the people you are nursing. This section should be no more than 200 words.

Case study
Outline briefly your case study that you will use to illustrate the theories and care plan for this essay.

There is a case who is 80 yr old lady Mdm Tan who admit to hospital because of | 7 marks | The case study should outline a person and their presenting problems, some of which you will discuss in the essay and the care plan. It needs to be detailed enough so that the reader can identify the issues you discuss in relation to the theories and care plan.

Presentation in the essay: You can do two things here:
Outline the case in two or three sentences e.g. the case-study is of a 94-year-old woman Mrs. Tau who has fallen and has been admitted to the hospital (see appendix 1). Alternatively, you can put this in a paragraph in the essay using no more than 200-300 words.

Main body
Is divided into four sections:
Section 1:
This should discuss international and national policies that relate to older people’s health and your case study.

WHO’s work on the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing (2021-2030), Patient-centered care | 15 marks | For this section, you should look at global policies such as WHO in terms of older people’s health. You then need to discuss and evaluate national and local policies relevant to your country on older people’s health and 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, exploring the impact on your case study and how this aligns with older people’s health generally.
This section is approximately 600 words written in academic style and must be supported by evidence from your reading.

Section 2:
You will provide an overview of the theories and discuss one aging theory that relates best to your case. Explain how it fits with your case study. | 15 marks | In this section, there is an expectation that you demonstrate that you are aware of the various theories of aging.

You will then consider discussing one aging theory that best applies to your case. There is an expectation that the theory you choose would be critically discussed—so the strengths and weaknesses 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.

This section is approximately 600 words written in academic style (3rd person) and supported by evidence from the literature.

Section 3:
You will provide an overview of the theories and discuss one nursing theory that relates best to your case. Explain how it fits with your case study. | 15 marks | In this section, you may want to make reference to examples of key nursing theories that are available relating to older people’s health care. You will then choose one theory to discuss in detail and relate to your case.
For example, you may choose to discuss person-centered care. You would explain what this is and support your statements with relevant literature that focuses on the use of person-centered care. Make sure you apply this to your particular case.
This section is approximately 600 words written in academic style (3rd person) and supported by evidence from your reading.

Case study
You need to develop a care plan relating to the case study. | 26 marks | Here you are expected to develop a care plan looking at no more than 5 key priorities. However, to get some depth, it may be better to discuss 3-4 key priorities. A template has been provided already to help you outline some key priorities of care.
You will see that the template asks for suggested nursing goals and interventions, but also a rationale for your decisions of care. This would include a reference that supports the intervention you suggest.

For example, one presenting problem/nursing need and priority for care might be to manage their pain effectively. You may choose a pain management strategy and here you would need to evidence base this with a reference from the literature.

Conclusion
Concise summary of key areas of discussion covered in your essay. | 5 marks | Here you should summarize the main points discussed in the essay. 200 words.

References
Correct presentation of the reference list in APA 7th style. Select good quality evidence to support your writing. | 5 marks | References should be provided in accordance with the School of Health and Social Care (SHSC) guidance.

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