3805NRS Health & Illness in the Older Person Assignment 3 Brief

Module Aim:   

Registered nurses work with individuals, groups, and communities to improve health. One way to do this is to analyse how health risks can be reduced during changes to natural, social and/ or governmental elements in our society. As clinical leaders, registered nurses are expected to collect information about emerging health risks from a variety of sources and collate this information into a meaningful analysis with recommendations for a specific audience. The audience for these analyses can be the public, older people or carers of older people, or nurses working in a range of practice contexts.  

The ability of registered nurses to communicate and educate using a variety of methods is an important skill and responsibility. This assignment provides an opportunity to engage in a patient education exercise commonly used by registered nurses, by developing a risk reduction poster for an identified health risk to older people, targeted at a particular audience, supported by an evidence-based written justification. This task is aligned to Learning Outcomes 1, 2 and 3.

Task Description: 

There are two parts to this assignment. You must complete both parts. 

Part 1 involves you in selecting/justifying the choice of a health risk to older people and creating a one-sided A4 size poster (300 words) designed to educate a chosen audience (select one - patients or families or staff) about that risk and recommend evidence-based nursing interventions. 

Part 2 is a written justification (1200 words) that includes evidence that justifies the information contained in the poster.  

The total word allocation for this assignment is 1500 words.  

What to Include in your poster and justification?  

 Part 1 - On your poster you must: 

1. Identify a health risk for a specific older adult population (aged over 65 years or over 50 years if Australia’s First People), and

2. Recommend and justify the nursing interventions for older people diagnosed with, or at risk of, complex health conditions and/or cognitive decline associated with your selected health risk, and 

3. Identify changes in the environment (natural, social, and governmental) that put at risk the health of older people. 

 Part 2 – In your justification you must: 

1. Provide a discussion of the rationale and supporting evidence for the selection of the health risk in the specified older adult population, and  

2. Justify your selection of the audience, including content, implications for nursing care related to change in environment, and the relevancy of selected poster features for your target audience, and

3. Evaluate the implications for nursing care related to changes in the environment (natural, social, and governmental) that have an impact on the health of older people.