L4 Fundamentals of Nursing Practice Assessment Brief 2025

Assessment Brief Outline

This assessment will demonstrate that you have completed the learning outcomes of the module by discussing person-centred care and reflecting on your personal and professional skills.

Task Details and developing the task:

Person-Centred Care

You are required to complete a 2000-word essay on person-centred care, followed by a short reflection using the format of your choice. This assignment will help you recognise the use of person-centred care in practice and develop your evidence-based practice. Additionally, it will allow you to demonstrate how you will bring your own skills and attributes into your nursing programme.

Instructions:

Person-centred care essay (2000 words)- formal academic writing

• Discuss and Explore the Concept of Person-Centred Care:

Begin your assignment by defining person-centred care, exploring its significance in modern nursing practice. Discuss the core elements that constitute person-centred care and how these elements enhance the quality of patient care.

• Legal and Ethical Principles:

Ensure that your discussion of person-centred care includes an examination of the legal and ethical principles that underpin it. This could include issues of consent, patient autonomy, confidentiality, and the duty of care. Explain how these principles guide nursing practice and support the delivery of person-centred care.

• Choosing Supporting Topics:

To strengthen your discussion, only select one or two topics from the list below that are covered in the module. Do not need cover all of them (only choose one or two that you are interested in). Provide a detailed exploration of how these topics support the delivery of person-centred care.

• Nursing Process & Nursing Models: How do nursing frameworks and systematic processes facilitate the provision of person-centred care?
• Professional Standards: In what ways do professional standards ensure the delivery of person-centred care?
• Patient Safety: Discuss the importance of patient safety within the context of person-centred care.
• Therapeutic Relationships: How do therapeutic relationships contribute to person-centred care?
• Record Keeping: Examine the role of accurate and comprehensive record keeping in maintaining person-centred care.
• Compassionate Care: Explore the link between compassionate care and person-centred care.
• Care Planning: How does effective care planning support person-centred care?
• Safeguarding: Discuss safeguarding measures in the context of person-centred care.
• End of Life: How does person-centred care influence end-of-life care?
• Communication: Analyse the role of effective communication in delivering person-centred care.
• Activities of Daily Living: Consider how person-centred care integrates with supporting patients’ activities of daily living.
• Assessment and Vital Signs: Discuss how patient assessment and monitoring of vital signs contribute to person-centred care.
• Medicines Management: Examine the importance of medicines management within person-centred care.

Reflection- formal reflective writing

Conclude your assignment with a well-considered reflection. This section is an opportunity for you to thoughtfully analyse how the principles of person-centred care will influence your future nursing practice based on your previous life experiences and what you bring to the role. Reflect on the importance of integrating these principles into your daily interactions with patients and how they can enhance the quality of care you provide.

This can be in the format of your choice:

• 500 words- formal reflective writing style
• 500 words of annotated pictures/photos
• 6-minute recorded presentation (audio or video)

Reflection Guidance: Consider the following:

• Your Skills, Attributes and Experiences: Consider your own skills, values, and attributes, and reflect on how these personal qualities will support your journey towards becoming a person-centred nurse. How do these strengths contribute to your ability to provide person-centred care? Discuss specific examples or experiences that have shaped your understanding of person-centred care and explain how these insights will guide your professional growth.
• Applying Your Learning: Think about what you have learned in this module. How will you apply these insights during your placements? Consider specific ways you can incorporate person-centred care into your practice.
• Ongoing Development: Aim to demonstrate self-awareness and an understanding of the ongoing learning process in nursing. Highlight any areas where you feel you need to develop further and how you plan to address these in your studies and practice. How will you continue to develop and refine these skills and attributes as you progress through your studies and into your nursing career?

Module learning outcomes:

On successful completion of this assessment, you will be able to:

• Describe the fundamental skills required for creating and maintaining therapeutic relationships with people using services and their families/carers
• Describe and apply the key theoretical principles and underpinning holistic assessment and planning to meet people’s needs.
• Discuss the legal and ethical principles that underpin nursing care
• Identify personal and professional skills and attributes that will support and contribute towards your progression into the healthcare profession.