HNU 300 Management and Leadership in Care Delivery Assignment Brief – Summative Assessment

HNU 300 Assignment Brief – Summative Assessment

‘Discuss an area of management/leadership related to clinical practice and impacting on care delivery ’

Write a 3000-word report discussing an area of management/leadership related to clinical practice and impacting on care delivery. Include theories underpinning management and leadership, decision making, current policy, teamwork, emotional intelligence and budgeting.

Module Learning Outcomes:

This assignment is worth 100% of the total marks for this module and assesses all the Module Learning Outcomes:

1. Critically discuss theories of management in healthcare practice relevant to the student’s healthcare setting.
2. Critically evaluate the principles of leadership and decision-making in relation to a specific area of clinical (or nursing/healthcare) practice.
3. Critically discuss the impact of contemporary health and social care policy on healthcare practice.
4. Critically debate the management of budgets and their influence on healthcare practice.
5. Evaluate how the principles of teamwork impact on risk management assessment, resources and human factors in healthcare.
6. Critically evaluate emotional intelligence and resilience in relation to emotional motivation within healthcare delivery.
   You must use your critical thinking and writing skills, and a variety of sources (journal articles, books etc) to identify and discuss factors impacting on the delivery of aligned care.
7. Citation and referencing must be done using the Harvard method.

The Submission deadline for this assignment is 13:00hrs on the Monday of Week 8

Submission is in CANVAS as a word document.

Please use the cover page provided which should include

• Student Name
• Student Number
• Module title and code
• Date of submission
• Actual word count (this excludes the cover page and reference list)
• Statements of use of Artificial Intelligence tools
• Declaration
• Signature and date

Please use the following formatting:

• 1.5-line spacing
• size 12; font: Arial
• Left alignment of main text
• No indentation of paragraphs or of the reference list
• Reference list should be formatted with single line spaces.

Your work should be set out in a report format and should include:

Introduction

• This section sets the scene and providing an overview of what the reader can expect in the report.
• Give a brief example of how your or a colleague’s management/ leadership has
  affected care positively or negatively.
  oThis example forms the basis for your application to practice throughout your report
• Briefly explain what the report will be about.

Main body – general points (this is not a heading)

• This section should address all LOs equally.
  oDivide your word count more or less equally per LO.
  oRemember the introduction and conclusion are also included in the total word count of 3000 words.
  oThe cover page and references do not form part of the word count.
• As it is a report, you need to include headings:
  oHave one heading related to each LO (besides introduction and conclusion).
  oUse key words
  oDo not use the exact wording of the LO in your heading.
  oDo not use the term LO in your writing

Critically discuss theories of management in healthcare practice relevant to the student’s healthcare setting (LO1)

• Discussion of management theories (this is the main part of this section)
• Briefly apply this to the example you provided in the introduction

Critically evaluate the principles of leadership and decision-making in relation to a specific area of clinical (or nursing/healthcare) practice (LO2)

• Discussion of principles of leadership and decision-making (this is the main part of this section)
• Briefly apply this to the example you provided in the introduction

Critically discuss the impact of contemporary health and social care policy on healthcare practice (LO3)

• In this section, make a link to at least one health and social care policy and how this policy affected the management and leadership of the care provided in the example you gave in the introduction.
• The policy you are considering should be a current policy in the UK.

Critically debate the management of budgets and their influence on healthcare practice (LO4)

• In this section consider how the management of budget influences healthcare.
• Again, make application to practice – looking at your example given in the introduction did the management of budgets influence the healthcare practice? How or why did it influence healthcare practice?

Evaluate how the principles of teamwork impact on risk management assessment, resources and human factors in healthcare (LO5)

• The principles of teamwork
• The impact teamwork may have on risk assessment
• You can also consider its impact on resources and human factors.
• Application to your example given in the introduction

Critically evaluate emotional intelligence and resilience in relation to emotional motivation within healthcare delivery (LO6)

• Critically evaluate emotional intelligence and resilience
  oThis should include defining those terms
• How this links to motivation
• Application to practice: how it impacts healthcare delivery especially in relation to the example you have given

Conclusion

• There should be no new information in the conclusion as this is the place where you sum up the findings of your report.
• You can also give recommendations.

References

• This needs to start on a new page, insert a page break.
• Use Harvard referencing. Link to cite them right
• References need to be in alphabetical order.
• In the reference list all authors need to be named, and you cannot use et al.

Useful things to remember:

• When completing your assignment please check your work against the marking criteria as these are what your work will be marked against
• Aim to include discussion related to each of the Learning Outcomes.
• Write in the third person.
• Make sure to proofread your work (several times) before submission.
• Use the complete word allowance of 3000 words but stay within the word limit. There is a 10% margin either way.
• Check your similarity score and where the similarity appears. Make adjustments if needed.
• Use Arial 12 with 1.5 line spacing. You can use bold for headings, do not use upper case.
• Align your work with the left margin.
• Study skills has helpful videos and support available. Here is the link.
• And finally, ensure to submit your work on time and check you have submitted it in the right place.