Managing a Healthcare Organisation Formative and Summative Assignment brief and Guidance Notes| BPP

Managing a Healthcare Organisation Assignment brief and Guidance Notes| BPP

Details of the Formative and Summative Assessment:

Formative assessments:

1000-word draft of any Health resource management issue/topic of your choice. Preparing/linking into the summative task.

(To be submitted as per Timetable details)

Assignment Guidance Notes-Formative Assessment Brief

You are advised to write a 1000-word draft preparing/linking into the summative assessment tasks

Suggested Structure for your Formative Assignment Introduction:

• Main Body:
• Conclusion:
• Reference List:

Please ensure you incorporate formative feedback into improving the 1000- words that you will use in completing your summative work.

Summative Assessment: Students will:

1. Submit a 1000-word written piece on a Health resource management issue/topic to an approved AI programme (currently Microsoft 365 copilot chat)
2. Using a structured AI prompt (to be provided/ created during the module), you will generate an AI response.
3. A 4000-word Critical analysis of the AI-generated response demonstrating engagement with relevant literature, critical thinking, and application of healthcare management principles
   [100% of Module Grade]

• You must achieve 50% to pass the module.
• Submission deadline- Time: 12 Noon on date confirmed in your Individual learning plan. (To be submitted as per Timetable details via Turnitin)

Assignment Guidance Notes-Summative Assessment Brief

Submit a 1,000-word written piece on a Health Resource Management issue/topic to an approved AI programme (currently Microsoft 365 Copilot chat). You must use your student email only to sign in/ login to Microsoft 365 Copilot chat.
Using the structured AI prompt provided/ created during the module below to generate a response from your submitted 1000-words

Steps the student will apply to instruct the Generative AI:

The first thing the student will do is to instruct the Generative AI (Microsoft 365 Copilot chat) to ensure it keeps it response within the expected limit.

Step 1: “I am a student currently writing an assignment. 

I will need you to play the role of a learning and brainstorming partner. You will generate ideas, clarify concepts and brainstorm ideas on a specific health resource management issue/topic that I will provide for you”.

• I will upload a 1000-word essay on ….“the topic/issue that you have chosen.”
• I will follow the 1000-word essay with a prompt on what I expect you to analyse and generate response on.
• Ensure that you keep the response precise and concise based on the specific health resource management issue/topic provided.
• Ensure the generated response is accurate and unambiguous and avoid unnecessary details.
• All responses and outputs should be in English language, UK spellings.

Step 2: The student should go ahead and upload the 1000-word essay.

Step 3: The student should copy and paste the suggested prompt.

The Suggested Prompt*:

Critical Analysis of Health Resource Management Strategies

"Health resource management plays a crucial role in ensuring efficient allocation of healthcare services and improving patient outcomes. Using the provided 1000-word essay, critically evaluate the key strategies employed in health resource management. Discuss the challenges faced in optimising healthcare resources and propose innovative solutions that could enhance efficiency in the healthcare sector. Support your arguments with relevant case studies and data-driven insights."

*If during the module the wording of the suggested prompt is changed/ amended, or if an alternative suggested prompt becomes available as an option, this will be articulated to you ahead of the summative assessment

Based on the AI generated response, write a 4000-word Summative Assessment in the following areas:

• Critical analyse the AI-generated response demonstrating engagement with relevant literature, critical thinking, and application of healthcare management principles.

Suggested Structure for Summative Assignment Introduction:

• Introduce the concept of resource management and its importance for a healthcare organisation.
• State the purpose of the essay and the significance of your chosen resource management issue in relation to managing in a healthcare organisation.
• State how you intend to accomplish the assignment task.

Main Body:

• Conduct a critical analysis of the principles and frameworks applicable to your selected issue
• Demonstrate adequate application of relevant literature, critical analysis, and the synthesis of scholarly ideologies, noting some divergence as well as convergence concepts that could impact the effective management of a healthcare organisation.
• Demonstrate a comprehensive application of healthcare management principles to practice

Conclusion

• Summarise the main findings and key insights from the critical evaluation

Referencing

• Accuracy of in-text citations and reference list (Harvard referencing style).

Overall Presentation and Appendix

• The overall quality of the presentation, including clarity, spelling, and grammar, is satisfactory.
• Attach evidence of the 1000 words used for engagement with the approved AI Programme (currently Microsoft 365 CoPilot Chat), the prompt you used, and the AI-generated response.

Note: You must only use the approved suggested prompt(s) and only on Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat; you must be signed in with your student Microsoft 365 account credentials.

You must include thr instruction brief, your written 1000-word essay, the prompt you used, and the approved AI (currently Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat) response as an appendix. It is advisable for you to copy everything and paste it into your answer sheet as a single appendix item.

Topics Covered

• Managing Healthcare Organisations
• Resource Management in Healthcare
• Managing Human Resources
• Principles of Workforce Development
• Planning in Healthcare Organisations
• Managing Risk and Compliance in Healthcare
• Using Data for Decision-Making
• Code of Practice

You must apply all details as indicated in the Assessment preparation sessions and in the Programme Handbook.

• Front cover must be completed.
• Font size 12.
• Font Style Ariel.
• Line Spacing 1.5.
• Header / Footer your SRN and Page Number.
• Apply Harvard Referencing.
• All answers must be referenced.
• Reference list.
• Submit via Turnitin.

Turnitin upload format

When you are submitting your assignment on Turnitin, you are to use the format below to name the assignment:
BPP SRN (BP0123456), MHCO and Assignment

How to check similarity

You can complete a similarity check by going into your cohort summative submission page on Turnitin prior to the deadline.
You can complete a similarity check as many times as you wish, and you will get an immediate similarity percentage result for the first 3 times. After that it will take 24 hours so, please be mindful of the cut off time for your final submission as once the date and time has elapsed you will not be able to submit your work.

Assessment regulations

• You may receive verbal and written feedback on Formative work, which is intended to aid your learning experience.
• For all assessed academic work, feedback will be available four weeks after the submission date. This feedback and any grade awarded are provisional until the Board of Examiners have ratified your awarded grade.
• Remember to use your feedback in conjunction with the assignment; the aim is to improve your performance, use feedback constructively to plan future work and performance. Where you are unclear with regards to the feedback, you should seek further clarification from the module team and or your personal tutor.
• There is a fee (£75) for every resubmission following failure at a previous attempt
• In some instances, the Programme Leader or nominee may grant an extension of a deadline date for coursework. You must have undertaken the following for this procedure to be considered:

a.The application MUST be received by 12:00 noon on the day before the deadline
b.The claim for the extension MUST be on the prescribed form and;
c.MUST be accompanied by authoritative and objective evidence of the mitigating circumstances relied on.

• You must NOT mention or use specifically the name of any individual or organisation without permission in your assignment.
• More information regarding the extension of course work can be found in the university Policies and Procedures (UPPs) & General Academic Regulations (GARs)

Required

• Ensure you insert at the foot of each page, SRN and Slide number