NURS20150 Contextual Foundations of Mental Health Nursing - Written Assessment

Assessment

Type: Written assessment

Weighting: 60%

Length: 2500 words (+/- 10%)

This assessment relates to the following Learning Outcomes:

3. Examine the historical and ongoing impact of discriminatory practices on marginalised groups within mental health services;
4. Apply an ecological model to explore factors that contribute towards mental well-being and mental disorders.

Aim

People from marginalised populations, such as a person from a non-English speaking background, a First Nations Person, an older person, or LGBTIQ person, often have an increased risk of mental illness and mental disorders compared to people from non-marginalised populations.

The aim is to utilize Bronfenbrenner’s (1979) ecological model to explain the impact of extrinsic or ecological levels on a person from a marginalized group.

Instructions

Your task is to:

1. Choose a person from a marginalised group. This person may be someone you have encountered in your clinical practice, a colleague, family member or friend. Introduce this person, remembering to deidentify all relevant information to ensure confidentiality.
2. Then, using Bronfenbrenner’s (1979) ecological model as a framework, explore how the following FOUR elements from this model impact on your chosen person and their mental health experience.

The four elements are:

• Culture
• History
• Mass Media
• Organisations

3. Include a synthesis of your paper that describes at least four major ‘take home’ lessons that have been evident from engagement with the report. A suggestion would be to include the these insights immediately prior to your conclusion.

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Literature and references

• In this assessment use literature of no more than 10 years old (from peer-reviewed sources) to demonstrate broad consideration of your alternate nursing interventions.
• You may also use seminal scholarly literature where relevant.
• Suitable references include peer-reviewed journal articles as well as textbooks and credible websites.
• When sourcing information, consider the five elements of a quality reference: currency, authority, relevance, objectivity, and coverage. Grey literature sourced from the internet must be from reputable websites such as from government, university, or peak national bodies: for example, the Australian College of Nursing.

Requirements

• Use a conventional and legible size 12 font, such as Times New Roman or Arial, with 1.5 line spacing and 2.54cm page margins (standard pre-set margin in Microsoft Word).
• Include page numbers on each page in a footer.
• Use formal academic language
• Use the seventh edition American Psychological Association (APA) referencing style. The CQUniversity Academic Learning Centre has an online APA Referencing Style Guide.
• Word count is calculated from the first word of the introduction to the last word of the conclusion. The word count INCLUDES in-text references and direct quotations.
• The word count does NOT include cover page, abstract, contents page, reference page and appendices.

Resources

• The quality and credibility of your sources are important.

It is recommended that you access your discipline specific library guide: the Nursing Resource Guide; Midwifery Resource Guide;

• You may use EndNote to manage your citations and reference list. More information on how to use EndNote is available at the CQUniversity Library website.
• Submit a draft before the due date to review your Turnitin Similarity Score before making a final submission. Instructions are available here.

Submission

Submit your assessment via the unit Moodle site in Microsoft Word format only.

Resubmission

• If you receive a Fail for this assessment, you will be allowed to re-attempt the assessment.
• Your assessment re-attempt must be completed and submitted within (seven!!!!) days of receiving a mark for the initial assessment.
• You do not have to start over you can edit and adjust your original submission based on the feedback you have received.
• Please note that that the maximum marks for a re-attempt is 50% of the available marks for the assessment.
• If you do decide not to re-attempt, your original Fail mark will be applied.