Assessment Case study analysis and developing a care plan

Individual/Group Individual

Length 1800 words (+/- 10%)

Learning Outcomes

The Subject Learning Outcomes demonstrated by successful completion of the task below include:
a) Define and apply the key concepts related to the growth and development of children and adolescents to nursing assessment and care planning
c) Critically analyse the psychosocial and cultural needs of the child or adolescent and their significant other and essential support in relation to acute illness in child and adolescent primary health care.
d) Explore the complexities of medication management with children and adolescents and interpret and apply to care planning.
e) Recognise child protection responsibilities and collaborative processes with a multidisciplinary team.
f) Identify and determine suitable risk assessment tools for use within children’s health care (as outlined in the National Safety and Quality Health Services (NSQHS) Standards).

Assessment Task
In this assessment, you will be required to
• Analyse the case study related to a common clinical presentation in childhood and develop a care plan
• The word limit for this assessment is 1800 words (+/- 10%). This is an individual assessment.
• Please refer to the Assessment Instructions for details on how to complete this assessment.

Context
This assessment provides an opportunity for you to use the theoretical knowledge you have acquired so far in CCA206 Care of Children and Adolescents. You are encouraged to analyse the information presented to you in the case study, recommend appropriate courses of action based on best practices, supported by academic references. Consider the principles of atraumatic care and family-centred care in your analysis and care planning. You may use the Clinical Reasoning Cycle (Levett-Jones et al., 2010) to analyse the case study and develop the care plan.

Instructions
To complete this assessment, you must:
• Read the case study document found in Assessment 2 resources folder on Blackboard.
• Please ensure you consider the following points as you complete your case study report
1. Define the clinical diagnosis/es.
2. Describe the pathophysiology of the clinical diagnosis.
3. Analyse the aetiology, risk factors, signs and symptoms of the clinical diagnosis in relation to the current clinical presentation
4. Analyse the growth and development of the child in your case study and identify specific requirements for care during hospitalisation (based on age/ developmental stage)
5. Identify any complex safeguarding issues related to the child in the case study.
6. Describe the multidisciplinary processes for managing any complex safeguarding issues related to the child in the case study, based on the child protection responsibilities of a Registered Nurse in your State or Territory.
7. Identify and discuss the medication management complexities in your chosen case study and include in care planning.
8. Appraise suitable risk assessment tools, and apply one tool to determine the risk management measures to be integrated into the child’s care plan.
9. Based on your analysis above, develop a family centred care plan for the child in the case study highlighting FOUR care priorities/problems identified. In your care plan, include assessment data, problems or issues identified, goals/expected outcomes, nursing interventions/actions, and evaluation. As you are not providing care in the
real world, to write your evaluation, consider that the child’s condition is improving after your interventions.

Please also consider the following requirements:
• A cover page must be included which includes; subject name and code, assessment number, student name, student number and word count
• Present your assessment in 12-point font, Arial or Times New Roman, 1.5 line spaced and a minimum of 2.5cm margins.
• Page numbers should be included in the footer along with student ID number
• Suggested Structure

o A brief succinct introduction should be written to introduce the case study and intention of the case study analysis (100-150 words).
o A conclusion should be written which sums up any significant findings and concludes the case study analysis in an engaging way. No new information should be introduced in the conclusion (100-150 words).
o Use Headings and Subheadings where appropriate to indicate the question is being addressed
• Write your case study report in the third person.
• Familiarise yourself with the rubric to ensure you are addressing the relevant elements within your case study.
• Submit your report as a word document (unprotected) and not PDF

Referencing
15+ references are required for this assessment. Use recent, relevant and reliable resources to complete this task. These should be peer-reviewed literature other credible sources (government documents, reports, publications, authentic webpages etc., related to the subject matter and not older than seven years. It is essential that you use appropriate APA style for citing and referencing research. Please see more information on referencing in the Academic Skills webpage.

Submission Instructions
The case study report should be submitted via the Assessment 2 link in the main navigation menu in CCA206 Care of Children and Adolescents Blackboard site. The learning facilitator will provide feedback via the Grade Centre in the LMS portal. Feedback can be viewed in My Grades.

Academic Integrity
All students are responsible for ensuring that all work submitted is their own and is appropriately referenced and academically written according to the Academic Writing Guide. Students also need to have read and be aware of Torrens University Australia Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure and subsequent penalties for academic misconduct. These are viewable online.

Students also must keep a copy of all submitted material and any assessment drafts.