NUR301 Management Of Health Care

This workbook is to be used in conjunction with the Module Guide and relates to the first assignment, which attracts 40% of the total mark. For your convenience the assessment criteria is included.

You are required to answer all 5 sections.

* NB Please be sure to use appropriate literature to support your work. Reference to the pertinent literature in required for each of the 5 sections and a reference list should be attached to your competed work.

1. As a health care provider, describe how income flows into the organisation of your choice (e.g. hospital, community or a Private company).

2. Evaluate the steps you would take when reviewing the skill mix in the clinical setting of your choice. Discuss how you might balance the financial implications of youractions?

3. You are required to develop a system which would enable you to audit your staffing expenditure on a monthly basis. Offer detailed discussion of your rationale underpinning your

4. You are required to give a detailed discussion how you would audit non-staff expenditure on a monthly basis in a clinical setting of your choice. What reasonable cost effective strategy would you implement in order to maintain bestpractice?

5. You are required to describe in detail essential information which would enable you to successfully manage your staff and non-staff budget. From your earlier information (Questions 1 – 4), what do you consider to be key issues in terms of successfulmanagement?

Marking Criteria - Guidelines

• When completing assignments please refer to the specific learning outcomes for the assignment and check your work against the marking grid as you will be assessed onthis!!
• Assignments to be word processed, it is up to individual the style of the characters, but 12 font should beused
• Spacing is usually 1.5 lines. You should take into account legibility andpresentation
• Word limit to be adhered to with 10% lea way on either side, note of word count to be on front ofassignment
• This workbook should be submitted to turnitin by the dateand time 
• There will be a penalty for any work submitted after thegiven date and time

Marking Criteria - Referencing

• A method of referencing to be usedconsistently
• All sources to be acknowledged and when quoting, inverted commas must be used and page no. of reference (or web site) must begiven
• All references to be cited in reference list, only one list is necessary

MARKING CRITERIA

Structure & clarity	15	13-15	10-12	7-9	4-6	0-4
Structure & organisation       Presentation           Coherence		Excellent organisation & structure     Presentation is of a high standard         Concise and well expressed	Well structured logical organisation       Presentation is legible, grammatically correct       Coherent & well expressed	Organisation & structure evident       Presentation is of an acceptable standard some presentational errors     Generally good but some lapses	Inadequate attention to organisation & structure   Presentational mistakes and room for considerable improvement     Vague, poorly expressed	Disorganised major lapses in organisation & structure   Presentation is poor         Incoherent
Application	30	25-30	19-24	13-18	7-12	0-6
Applied to practice         Reflection		Relevant research and theoretical issues are directly related to practice     Appropriate and well integrated personal reflection	Relates theory and research to practice in a focused manner       Appropriate personal reflection	A fair attempt to reconcile research findings and theory with practice     Reflection evident lacks depth	Some difficulty in relating research findings and theoretical concepts to patient/client care   Very little reflection	Little or no attempt to relate material to patient/care         No reflection
Comments:
Evaluation	30	25-30	19-24	13-18	7-12	0-6
Level of analysis       Synthesis		Clear and focused arguments and demonstration of the ability to analysis and synthesise information	Arguments are reasonably organised and demonstration of the ability to analyse and synthesise information	Some valid arguments and evidence of analysis and some evidence of synthesis	Some inconsistencies in arguments and some evidence of analysis and attempts at synthesis	Arguments are poorly constructed and no evidence of analysis and synthesis
Comments:
Level of investigation	25	20-25	15-19	11-14	5-10	0-4
Relevant research cited         Evaluation of literature cited   Appropriate references system used		Evidence of wide reading which is evaluated and integrand in a creative manner   Clear evaluation of literature cited   Reference  citation and overall presentation standard is high	Evidence of critical reading beyond course material         Evaluation evident     Citation, referencing are good	Some evidence of reading and understanding beyond course material     Little evaluation Some minimal errors	Reading limited to course material and demonstrates understanding       No evaluation     Poor or inconsistent use of referencing	Little or no evidence of reading           Inadequate Major errors

All students will receive feedback, and I would be available to discuss feedback.

You are required to structure your work for submission as follows:

Front sheet to indicate name, student no., module, date and word count

Second page to declaration that it is students own work, an example of this is: