NURS20153 Recovery Into Action

Assessment

Type: Written assessment

Weighting: 60%

Length: 2500 words (+/- 10%)

This assessment relates to the following Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyse the influence of hidden, unconscious and ingrained ideologies that constrain consumer participation.
2. Differentiate between the ideal and the reality in relation to consumer’s voice in mental health care.
3. Critically evaluate the visibility of consumer participation and the application of recovery in a mental health service.

Aim

To critically analyse the way in which the media portrays consumer involvement in mental health and illness.

Instructions

1. Identify recent media reports detailing mental illness or people who have mental illness.
2. Describe the way this media report has portrayed ingrained ideologies that may influence how society views people with mental illness.
3. Using up to date peer reviewed literature, analyse the influence that the media and these ideologies have on consumer participation, empowerment and the consumer voice.
4. 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 these insights immediately prior to your conclusion.

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.
• For help with resources, referencing and much more you can book a session with a librarian https://libanswers.library.cqu.edu.au/faq/158229
• 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.

Reattempt

• 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 7 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.