Module code and title:

Contemporary Issues and Interprofessional Practice

Code: PP610

Module leader:

Assignment No. and type:

CW1

Assessment weighting:

100%

Submission time and date:

By 14:00hrs (1:59 PM)

20 January 2023

Via Turnitin

Target feedback  date:

10th of February 2023

Assignment task

Summative: Written Assignment – 3000 words. A critical reflection on your scenario developed from your practice experience. Your scenario will focus on working with another practitioner from a different occupation.

Important Information

Confidentiality Policy for Society and Health 2016

Penalties for breaching confidentiality are on a fixed scale:

This assignment has been designed to provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate your achievement of the following module learning outcomes:

LO 1

Critically evaluate systems, models and principles for working collaboratively and effectively with other professions and agencies

LO 2

Develop a critical understanding of the skills, knowledge, values and attributes necessary for inter-professional practice, for self and others

LO 3

Develop a systematic understanding and critical awareness of the legal and policy framework and contemporary literature pertaining to IPP

LO 4

Show a conceptual and reflexive understanding of the causes of failures in health and social care, their meaning to service users, carers and professionals and what best practice is.

Task requirements

Formative Assignment – Presentation

This is a 5 minute presentation using PowerPoint to explore your scenario you have developed from your practice experience. The scenario is to describe an event where you worked with another practitioner from another occupation. It is suggested that you use a maximum of 2 PowerPoint slides to keep within the timeframe.

Feedback from students and the module leader will focus on your scenario, not on your presentation style. Feedback will be constructive and developmental, and will enable you to form your final, summative, written assignment.

Summative Assignment – 3000 words +/- 10%

Written Assignment. A critical reflection on your scenario developed from your practice experience. Your scenario will focus on working with another practitioner from a different occupation.

Guidance Notes: Your scenario:

This should be approximately 500 words.

The scenario needs to focus on one piece of work that you carried out working jointly with another practitioner. The aim is to explore your relationship with that practitioner. Please write in the first person (eg, ‘I’)

Useful questions to help you structure your description:

What happened? What was the situation? What was my role? What did I plan to achieve? What did I do? Who was present? What was their role? What did they do? How did it end?

Do not attempt to explore how you, or others, may have felt in your description.

Guidance Notes: Critical Reflection on the scenario

This should reflect (using the first person ‘I’) on what your scenario describes.

Useful questions to help you structure your critical reflection:

What was I thinking during the event, and after the event? What was I feeling during and after the event? What do I think about those who were present? How did others make me feel? How did the ending make me feel? Critically evaluate systems, models and principles for working collaboratively and effectively with other professions and agencies

The essay needs consider the following themes and explore them only if they are relevant to your scenario (all may be relevant, or only some, depending on your experience):

• Aims of interprofessional practice (and definition)
• The importance of supporting service users/patients
• The core values of interprofessional practice

Relate clearly to your scenario

• Professional accountability duty of care
• The legislation framing practice
• Competency
• Current issues affecting the workplace

Relate clearly to your scenario

• What can go wrong (serious case reviews)

• Professional hierarchy and power

Was this evident in your scenario?

Skills used:

• Communication
• Team working
• Emotional competence and elegant challenging
• Confidence in sharing information

Relate clearly to your scenario

What you have learned about working with another practitioner, and how you can use that learning to improve your practice in future.

Citations (In-text referencing): Your essay will not be a critical reflection unless you link your ideas to evidence (proof of reading) with in-text referencing. You will lose marks for ‘knowledge’ (a big part of what you are marked against) without providing in-text, and end of essay, references.

Word count – you can lose marks without providing a word count

Reference list on a separate page

Good luck!

We will go through this together during the module and you can always email me if you get stuck or have questions.

Referencing and research requirements

Please reference your work according to the Harvard style as defined in Cite Them Right Online (http://www.citethemrightonline.com). This information is also available in book form: Pears, R. and Shields, G. (2016) Cite them right: the essential reference guide. 10^th ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Copies are available via the University library.

Blackboard materials are available to support you in using citations to evidence your work. The session notes and PowerPoints include in-text citations lists of references used to support the module. Please make use of the learning materials.

How your work will be assessed

Your work will be assessed on the extent to which it demonstrates your achievement of the stated learning outcomes for this assignment (see above) and against other key criteria, as defined in the University’s institutional grading descriptors. If it is appropriate to the format of your assignment and your subject area, a proportion of your marks will also depend upon your use of academic referencing conventions.

This assignment will be marked according to the grading descriptors for Level 6.

Submission details

• Please use the Turnitin submission point in the Submit your work area in your Blackboard module shell.

• Please ensure that your work has been saved in an appropriate file format. Turnitin will only accept the following file types: Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint, PostScript, PDF, HTML, RTF, OpenOffice (ODT), Hangul (HWP), Google Docs, or plain text. Your file must also contain at least 20 words of text, consist of fewer than 400 pages and be less than 40MB in size.

• You can submit your work as many times as you like before the submission date. If you do submit your work more than once, your earlier submission will be replaced by the most recent version.

• Once you have submitted your work, you will receive a digital receipt as proof of submission, which will be sent to your forwarded e-mail address (provided you have set this up). Please keep this receipt for future reference, along with the original electronic copy of your assignment.

If you have submitted your essay to the original submission point via Turnitin as a draft, but are then awarded an extension, please send a copy of your original Turnitin receipt to your Registry Administrator (Laura Terrett) so that your original submission can be deleted.

• You are reminded of the University’s regulations on academic misconduct, which can be viewed on the University website: https://bucks.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0024/9546/Academic-Misconduct-Policy.pdf. In submitting your assignment, you are acknowledging that you have read and understood these regulations

Submission date and time

This assignment should be submitted before 1.59hrs UK time on 21^st January 2022.

Work that is submitted up to 10 working days beyond the submission date will be accepted as a late submission. Late submissions will be marked and the actual mark recorded, but will be capped at the pass mark (typically 40%), provided that the work is of a passing standard. Work submitted after this period will not be marked and will be treated as a non-submission. Critically evaluate systems, models and principles for working collaboratively and effectively with other professions and agencies

Feedback and marks for this assignment will be available by 11^th February 2022.

Fit to Submit:  Assignment Checklist

This brief assignment checklist is designed to help you avoid some of the most common mistakes students make in their coursework.

HAVE YOU READ THE ASSIGNMENT BRIEF?    

IF NOT, DO IT NOW!

In it you will find details of the assessment task, word count, the assessment criteria your work is marked against, and the learning outcomes – the basis for the assessment strategy in each module.

Students often lose marks by forgetting some of the more straightforward elements of their assignments. We recommend that you “tick off” each of the points below as you prepare your work for submission. If you need any help, ask your tutor and / or visit https://bucks.ac.uk/students/academicadvice/assessment-and-examination

TICK

Have you read and understood the assessment criteria?

Have you met the learning outcomes? You will lose marks and your work may even be failed if you have not.

Have you demonstrated you can think and write critically in the completed work? This means you have supported your arguments/explanations appropriately e.g. using relevant academic sources and you have offered discussion points which extends your own or others’ viewpoints to make reasoned conclusions/judgements.

Have you maintained an academic tone throughout your work? Is your work formal, focused, developed and clear?

Have you checked that the referencing in your assignment is in line with your programme requirements?

Have you proof-read your work and used spellcheck software to check your spelling and grammar?

Have you checked the presentation of your work is as specified by your tutor, for example, are font size, colour, style, line spacing and margins as the tutor specified? Critically evaluate systems, models and principles for working collaboratively and effectively with other professions and agencies

Have you kept to the word count (or equivalent)? If you are not sure, check with your   tutor.

Can you confirm that the work submitted is your own and not plagiarised?