NUR014-6 Health Life Social Sciences
NUR014-6 Health, Life And Social Sciences Assignment – UK
Word Count : 2500
Weight : 100%
Assignment type : Essay
Learning Outcomes : 1. Demonstrate the following knowledge and understanding • Demonstrate a critical understanding of the concepts of health and well-being and the bio-psycho-social factors which influence these. 2. Demonstrate the following skills and abilities • Critically analyze the needs of an individual accessing healthcare, synthesising knowledge from the fields of life health and social sciences.
NUR014-6 Health Life Social Sciences
What am I required to do in this assignment?
In this assignment, you will identify an individual from your practice placement and formulate a critical analysis of the factors influencing the holistic care and health needs of the individual.
NUR014-6 Health Life Social Sciences
What do I need to do to pass? (Threshold Expectations from UIF)
• Use key theories of health and disease to analyze and synthesise key sources of information that influence an individual’s situation.
• Critically evaluate the central bio-psycho-social factors influencing the health of an individual in whose care you have been involved with during the course.
• Critically and creatively synthesise and fundamental theories and evidence-based practice to evaluate the delivery of holistic nursing care.
How do I produce high quality work that merits a good grade?
To produce high quality work in this assessment you will need to:
Demonstrate critical and innovative thinking and the ability to challenge ideas and concepts. Your assignment must be logical and your conclusions must be supported with appropriate evidence.
Present a critical analysis and synthesis of the biopsychosocial model and concepts of health and wellbeing.
Read widely so that you can demonstrate the required understanding of complex concepts and ideas. You will need to access and appraise good quality literature and apply it effectively to support your discussion. Referencing must be accurate and follow the XXX. referencing guidelines.
Your work will need to be clearly and logically structured and presented using good academic writing style. You will need to demonstrate clear verbal communication and appropriate professional written expression.
NUR014-6 Health Life Social Sciences
How does this assignment relate to what we are doing in scheduled sessions?
How will my assignment be marked?
Your assignment will be marked according to the threshold expectations and the criteria on the following page. You can use them to evaluate your own work and consider your grade before you submit.
| Fail 0-39% | Fail 0-39% | Lower 2nd – 50-59% | Upper 2nd – 60-69% | 1st Class – 70%+ | |
| 1 | Show limited understanding of how key theories of health and disease could be used to analyze and synthesise key sources of information that influence an individual’s situation. There are significant limitations in relation to the breadth | Show understanding of how a minimum of two key theories of health and disease could be used to analyze and synthesise key sources of information that influence an individual’s situation. | Make use of at least two appropriate key theories of health and disease to analyze and synthesise key sources of information that influence an individual’s situation. | Utilise several theories of health and disease to inform an analysis and synthesis of the sources of information that influence an individual’s situation. | Construct a comprehensive analysis and synthesis of the sources of information that influence an individual’s situation which is founded upon a justified range of theories of health and disease. |
| 2 | Minimal or no critical evaluation of the key bio-psycho-social factors influencing the health of an individual in whose care you have been involved during the course. | Evaluate the central bio-psycho-social factors influencing the health of an individual in whose care you have been involved during the course. | Critically evaluate the central bio-psycho-social factors influencing the health of an individual in whose care you have been involved during the course. | Critically evaluate the bio-psycho-social factors influencing the health of an individual in whose care you have been involved during the course and show understanding of some possible impacts on health outcomes | Provide a comprehensive, critical evaluation of the bio-psycho-social factors influencing health and their effects on health outcomes for an individual in whose care you have been involved with during the course. |
| 3 | Work contains either omission or limited exploration of fundamental theories and evidence-based practice to evaluate the delivery of holistic nursing care. | Sound critical exploration of fundamental concepts/theories and evidence-based practice to evaluate the delivery of holistic nursing care | Sound critical exploration and Synthesis of fundamental concepts/ theories and evidence-based practice to evaluate the delivery of holistic nursing care. | Strong critical exploration and synthesis of fundamental concepts/theories and evidence-based practice to begin to critique the delivery of holistic nursing care. | Robust Critical exploration and creative synthesise of a range of concepts/theories and evidence-based practice to critique the delivery of holistic nursing care. |
| 4 | Demonstrates any of the following features: limited viewpoint, unfocussed, poor construction, nonuse of accepted academic writing styles. Response informed by a limited range of academic sources. Word count may or may not be declared | Structured response using accepted academic writing styles. Response informed by a range of academic sources. Word count may or may not be declared | Logical and informed response using accepted academic writing styles and reference protocols Response informed by a range of academic sources. Word count may or may not be declared | Thoughts and ideas are clearly expressed. Well-structured, using accepted academic writing styles. Response informed by a diverse range of academic sources. Word count declared | Demonstrates exceptional academic writing style at master level. Structure and organisation is coherent, polished and fluent. Incorporate ideas and evidence from a wide/comprehensive range of sources. Word count declared |
| 5 | Referencing is largely not in accordance with XXX referencing guidelines. Several inconsistently and various errors are evident | Referencing is in accordance with XXX referencing guidelines though inconsistently and some errors are evident | Referencing is in accordance with XXX referencing guidelines though frequent consistent errors are evident | Referencing is in accordance with UOB referencing guidelines though a small number of minor errors are evident | Referencing is in accordance with XXX referencing guidelines with no errors evident |