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Assessment 1:

Module one looked at the specific rights and responsibilities of the registered nurse in a specialty clinical area that is perioperative from the perspective of keeping the nurse and/or her/his patients/clients physically and emotionally safe. It also raised the issue of legal responsibilities and identified issues specific to the specialty area.

For your assessment: Write a critical analysis of 500 words on an issue of safety or of legal responsibility that you explored in some depth, ensuring it is specifically related to the specialty area(peri operative )

Distinguish the roles and responsibilities of a nurse in the selected specialty practice area. [PERI OPERATIVE]
In this module you will explore the role of the specialist nurse.

You will be asked identify some of the physical and emotional safety issues related to the specialty which is peri operative and determine some strategies you can use to keep yourself (and your patient) safe.

The module will conclude with an examination of the legal aspects associated with the specialty, both in terms of your responsibilities and the responsibilities of the employer.

In Australia, specialist nursing usually requires a post-graduate qualification (Jokiniemi, Pietilä, Kylmä&Haatainen, 2012). However, as registered Nurses you can work in any area of nursing, so what defines specialty practice?

Assessment 2: 

Module two looks specifically at the rights of patients/clients and in more depth the rights of carers in the process of treatment and recovery. It raises some questions about how the nursing profession views and deals with the rights of the carers and their need for information, particularly in the context of patients/clients who may lack insight in their care needs.

For your assessment: Write 500 words on your understanding of the dilemma of providing information to carers while considering the confidentiality concerns relating to the patient/client. Don't forget to consider the ethical implications in your consideration of the issues (ethical vs. legal dilemma for nurses). Ensure it is specifically related that is peri operative to the specialty area that you are/will be completing your placement in.

Assessment 3:

For your assessment:
Review, refine and reference your reflection from the activity for this module into a 500 word submission using the 5 R's of reflection, as follows:

Reporting
Provide a brief descriptive account of a situation/issue (i.e. the reflective trigger).
What happened/what the situation/issue involved.
Responding
Record your emotional/personal response to the situation/issue.
Your observations, feelings and questions about the situation/issue.
Relating
Report on your personal and theoretical understandings relevant to the situation/issue.
Making connections between the situation/issue and your experience, skills, knowledge and understanding.
Reasoning
Your explanation of the situation/issue.
Explaining the situation/issue in terms of the significant factors, relevant theory and/or experience.
Reconstructing
Drawing conclusions and developing a future action plan
Your deeper level of understanding about the situation / issue that is used to reframe / reconstruct your future practice and further develop your understanding of professional practice

The information contained in the table above was adapted from Bain, J. D., Ballantyne, R., Mills, C. and Lester, N. C. (2002). Reflecting on practice: Student teachers' perspectives. Post Pressed, Flaxton, Qld.

Your reflection should consider:
• How this has changed your perspective or given you some insight into the meaning illness has for that person;
• How you relate to this and make meaning of your own experiences;
• Your own perceptions, morals and ethics.

NOTE: For this assessment, it is not appropriate for you to reflect on a personal experience you have had relating to death, dying or illness, rather you MUST select one of the articles you sourced from the activity on the previous page (i.e. on the previous page, from the perspective of the person being cared for, the person closest to them or the health professional - you need to source one of these yourself).

Reflect on the personal perceptions and meaning of health, illness, dying and death as appropriate in the specialty practice area.peri operative
The perspectives on and understanding of health, illness, dying and the experience of someone's death is a very personal matter and the meaning a persona ascribes to it varies from person to person. As nurses it is important for us to understand that different people view these concepts and experiences in a variety of ways, and some of those ways may surprise or even dismay us.

Find three articles from magazines, journals, blogs, online postings (most numerous), where the person writes about the meaning an illness has had for them. Preferably this will be from your area of specialty practice however this may prove difficult for some specialties in this case pick a specialty area that interests you where there is information available. Choose one article each from the following perspectives or points of view.
• From the perspective of the person being cared for
• From the perspective of the person closest to them (partner, parent, child, etc)
• From the perspective of a health professional caring for such a person
Choose one of these readings and write a reflection on how it has changed your perspective or given you some insight into the meaning illness has for a particular person.
When writing your reflection make sure you consider your own perceptions, morals and ethics.

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