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Improving Quality and Safety in a Global Context

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Assignment Content Introduction (100 words). Whilst maintaining confidentiality, briefly describe a patient/service user. This can be someone you have cared for in a clinical environment, or someone who is known to you, e.g. a family member or a friend. Explain why they have received, or are receiving care and what their current health issues are. Section 1- Determinants of Health (350words). Identify one health inequality and discuss what impact this has on the health or wellbeing of the patient/service user. To answer this section successfully you must: • Identify one health inequality. • State and discuss at least one impact the health inequality has on either the health or wellbeing of the patient/service user. Section 2 – Using Evidence to Improve Nursing Care (600 words) From your discussion, identify and analyse one relevant piece of research or policy which relates to quality or safety. To answer this section successfully you must: • Identify one piece of research or a policy which relates to your chosen patient/service user. • Analyse how this research or policy could improve the quality or safety of the nursing care your patient/service user receives. Section 3 – Self-Management and Ethics (400 words) Critically discuss one approach by which the nurse may help the patient/service user to manage their own health and analyse an underpinning ethical principle. To answer this section successfully you must: • Identify one self-management initiative, and discuss how this could empower the patient/service user to increase the management of their own health. • Choose one of the ethical principles shown below, and analyse how it relates to the role of the nurse in empowering patients: 1) Beneficence, 2) Non-maleficence, 3) Autonomy or 4) Justice.
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