Assignment brief
Assessment title
Palliative Care Case Study
Assessment description
The assignment will be based on a case study of a palliative care client, identifying and discussing the internal and external influences on effective client care, and how these may influence the experiences of all concerned within the palliative care situation. (3000 words.)
Guidelines
Background
A case study is written for a clear purpose and to a particular audience. Specific information and evidence are presented, analyzed and applied. Reports are presented in a clearly structured format making use of sections and headings so that the information is easy to locate and follow. Case studies are used as forms of written assessment to identify what you have learned from your reading, research, and experience and giving you an experience of a skill that is used in practice and research (e.g., incident, development, progress and scientific reports). Case writing skills may be increasingly useful as your career progresses.
Case studies allow episodes of care to inform the delivery of high-quality healthcare. A case study discusses, for practice, research or educational purposes. Case studies written without structure are insufficiently rigorous to guide clinical practice and research needs.
Case study
Focus
o Therefore, what is presented in the discussion needs to be related to the patient.
o Therefore, what is presented needs to be explicitly related to palliative care (see book “Case studies in palliative and end-of-life care” for examples).
Case can be a:
Cannot be from:
Headings
These are the headings that need to be used.
History
Physical examination
Diagnostics
Patient discussion
Follow-up
References cat01750a&AN=udc.998829&site=eds-live (Accessed: 23 May 2022).
Also include External influences and physical factors, psychological and social issues / Pain management
What should be included:
See book “Case studies in palliative and end-of-life care”.
Therefore, what is relevant from the following should be considered: History: relevant key background information including explaining the palliative care situation.
Physical examination: relevant signs, symptoms, vital signs, observations, physical examination findings.
Diagnostics: relevant laboratory test, imaging, survey results.
Clinical question/s: question/s related to what the assignment will analyse. Only one or two questions.
Patient discussion: discussion related to the clinical question/s and relevant literature. Arguments with rationale with inferences explained. You can think about your recommendations as this will help you make discussions in relation to these here.
Follow-up: relevant changes to care (if any) with rationale, recommendations for practice and research going forward considering ‘Patient discussion’, strengths and limitations of the assignment.
Word count
The word count for this work is 3000 words.
Word count queries
The word count for each heading will vary according to each case study as you can see in examples on “Case studies in palliative and end-of-life care”. However, the following can be used as a rough estimate: History (100-400), Physical examination (100-200), Diagnostics (100-200), Clinical question/s (50-150), Patient discussion (1700-2300) and Follow-up (300-600).
Sources referred to in this document
Campbell, M. L. (2012) Case studies in palliative and end-of-life care. [electronic resource]. Wiley-Blackwell (Case studies in nursing). Available at: Campbell, M. L. (2012) Case studies in palliative and end-of-life care. [electronic resource]. Wiley-Blackwell (Case studies in nursing). Available at: https://ezproxy.derby.ac.uk/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=
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