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Assignment task

This is a 3000-words essay based assignment.

The assignment requires you to:   

• To give your assignment a title and to weave elements of the case study into the essay (Please remember that it’s not a reflective essay). 

 • You are expected to provide general information about leadership and management to include nursing, in addition identify relevant leadership and management theories and/or models. But, most importantly discuss the styles that are applicable to your case study and why / why not they were/are appropriate in the context. You are required to support your discussions with current policies, literature, and practice experience which is related to your formative case study.

 • You are required to identify collaboration, MDT and inter-professional working; and discuss the impact of these to your formative case study and to patient-centred care.

 • Discuss relational leadership and its effectiveness to create positive and/or negative relationships- e.g. inclusiveness, empowerment and how this links to theory, patient-centred care and your case study. 

• You are required to demonstrate self-awareness- within the essay. Apply your discussions to ‘self’- as a qualified nurse, what do your findings/conclusions mean for your future practice. 

This assignment has been designed to provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate your achievement of the following module learning outcomes: 

LO 1 :This assignment has been designed to provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate your achievement of the following module learning outcomes:

LO 2 :Critically discuss the benefits and challenges of inter-professional collaborative practice. 

LO 3 :Critically evaluate the role of self in relational leadership and problem solving when engaging with multiprofessional teams, service users, carers, families and significant others. 

LO 4 :Critically appraise the contribution of different approaches that inform inter-professional and multi-agency working.  

Task requirements 

 • This assignment should be presented in essay format, with a clear introduction and conclusion. 

• You should avoid use of the 1st and 2nd person and use an appropriately formal academic style, avoiding contractions (e.g., don’t, won’t, etc.) and informal or spoken forms of language. Essays do not typically use headings and sub-headings. 

• Be sure not to identify any individual or organisation directly or by implication in your work (NMC, 2015). Equally, unless crucial to the argument and/or where the information is already in the public domain, refer to organisations only in the most general terms, e.g., an NHS trust. 

• Your essay should include your attached case study as an appendix; this will help you to direct the learning outcomes and to demonstrate the impact of literature within your assignment.

 • The identified practice-based activity should have occurred while you were practicing within a multidisciplinary/intra-professional setting. 

• You must demonstrate all the learning outcomes within the assignment, outlining the theories and models, using literature, policies and research as appropriate. 

• Use literature, research and current policies to demonstrate your critical ability and why the theory supports your academic findings either positively or negatively. 

• Use selected areas of your case study to identify and demonstrate effective/ineffective practice knowledge within the assignment.

• Within the summative assignment you should briefly outline of the case study to help you focus. Remember this is not a reflective assignment 

• You are required to provide a cover sheet;

 • Module code and Module title

 • Module Leader • Seminar Leader 

• Font Size 12 and Ariel, 1.5-line space

 • Word Count declared 

Referencing and research requirements :

Please reference your work according to the Harvard style as defined in Cite Them Right Online (http://www.citethemrightonline.com). This information is also available in book form: Pears, R. and Shields, G. (2016) Cite them right: the essential reference guide. 10th edn. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Copies are available via the University library. 

How your work will be assessed :

Your work will be assessed on the extent to which it demonstrates your achievement of the stated learning outcomes for this assignment (see above) and against other key criteria, as defined in the University’s institutional grading descriptors. If it is appropriate to the format of your assignment and your subject area, a proportion of your marks will also depend upon your use of academic referencing conventions. 

This assignment will be marked according to the grading descriptors for Level 6. 

Submission details

Electronic submissions

 • This assignment should be submitted electronically. Please use the relevant Turnitin submission point in the Submit your work area in your Blackboard module shell.

 • Please ensure that your work has been saved in an appropriate file format. Turnitin will only accept the following file types: Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint, PostScript, PDF, HTML, RTF, OpenOffice (ODT), Hangul (HWP), Google Docs, or plain text. Your file must also contain at least 20 words of text, consist of fewer than 400 pages and be less than 40MB in size. 

• You can submit your work as many times as you like before the submission date. If you do submit your work more than once, your earlier submission will be replaced by the most recent version.

• Once you have submitted your work, you will receive a digital receipt as proof of submission, which will be sent to your forwarded e-mail address (provided you have set this up). Please keep this receipt for future reference, along with the original electronic copy of your assignment. 

• You are reminded of the University’s regulations on academic misconduct, which can be viewed on the University website: https://bucks.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0024/9546/Academic-MisconductPolicy.pdf. In submitting your assignment, you are acknowledging that you have read and understood these regulations 

• Please also note that work that is submitted up to 10 working days beyond the submission date will be considered a late submission. Late submissions will be marked and the actual mark recorded but will be capped at the pass mark (typically 40%), provided that the work is of a passing standard. Work submitted after this period will not be marked and will be treated as a non-submission.