UHRINN304 Medicines Management Summative Assessment 2026 | University of Suffolk

UHRINN304 Summative Assessment

Essay Length – 3,000 words

Details :-
Component number … 1
Form of assessment ….Essay
Assessment size …3000 Words
Weighting (%) …100%
Learning outcomes assessed …1,2,3,4.
Core or non-core …Core.

Level 6 Writing

• The student will identify and analytically reflect upon an episode within contemporary clinical
• practice, focusing upon the medicine optimisation issues arising around a specified service
• Weighting  – 100%
• HARVARD REFERENCING STYLE

Learning Outcomes

Ensure your work reflects the assignment brief and module learning outcomes

• Critically evaluate the role of therapeutics in health maintenance with particular reference to concordance and shared decision-making.
• Demonstrate an authoritative, in-depth, current and critical understanding of medicines optimisation.
• Appraise the theory and research-based knowledge of medicines management.
• Critically reflect on the nurse’s role in medicines optimisation, as a member of the wider healthcare team.

Assessment Criteria

Critically evaluate the therapeutic role of the nurse in relation to the medicines optimisation episode (LO1 & 4).

Appraise the factors surrounding the medicines optimisation episode, this should include professional, medicine safety and patient issues (LO2).

Explore how working with others impacted on this episode, this should include discussions surrounding a range of legal, ethical and professional issues. (LO2 & 4).

Applies theory and research-based knowledge of medicines optimisation (LO3).

Presentation, structure, grammar and referencing consistent with level 6 academic writing.

Summative Assessment Guidance

For this essay you need to consider an episode within contemporary clinical practice where a patients medication needs to be optimised. This may include for example:

Reducing or increasing medication doses.

Changing the route of administration.

Reducing the side effects – balancing/weighing up reasons for medication vs non-pharmacological interventions.

Polypharmacy review for complex patients.

Medicine related issue around therapeutic drug index.

Adverse reactions to a drug and alterations required as a result of this.

A drug that has been given in error, but how this was reported, what was learnt from this.

A concordance issue in relation to medicines management.

Disclosure Requirements

Given that this assignment is referring to an episode around medicines optimisation, it may not always show best practice. Students need to make it clear within their case study what the outcome of the episode was e.g. reporting/appropriate actions taken. They need to ensure these outcomes adhere to best practice in relation to our professional responsibilities for the reporting of medication incidents.

Suggested Structure

Introduction

The episode – A brief description of your episode within contemporary clinical practice, focusing upon the medicine optimisation issues.

Analysis of the episode

Exploration of factors surrounding the episode

Choose 2 or 3 key issues but you may allude to more if it supports these main points

Exploration of working with others

Again choose 2 or 3 issues to explore, some may be threaded throughout your earlier discussions

What medicines optimisation episode could be considered?

For this essay you need to consider an episode within contemporary

clinical practice where a patients medication needs to be optimised.

This may include for example:

Reducing or increasing medication doses.

Changing the route of administration.

Reducing the side effects – balancing/weighing up reasons for

medication vs non-pharmacological interventions.

Polypharmacy review for complex patients.

Medicine related issue around therapeutic drug index.

Adverse reactions to a drug and alterations required as a result of

this.

A drug that has been given in error, but how this was reported, what

was learnt from this.

A concordance issue in relation to medicines management.

Episode Of Care:

Mary is an 83-year-old patient who has been admitted after a fall on a medical ward and has been diagnosed with hypertension and is on palliative management. Mary lives with her husband and receives daily support with activities of daily living from carers. Her two sisters live nearby. She has a past medical history of Diabetes and Dementia. EGFR  of 40, LFTs within normal range.

Mary is taking Bisoprolol 7.5mg BD, Bendroflumethiazide,2.5mg, Amitriptyline 10mg OD, Ramipril 2.5mg OD, Metformin 500mg BD, Gliclazide 80mg BD, Morphine 5mg BD, Lorazepam 2mg, Haloperidol  1.5mg OD, Humulin I 12 Units BD,  Laxative 15ml QDS, Senna two tablets bedtime, Paracetamol 1g QDS, Hyoscine butylbromide SC Injection 20mg PRN.