Assignment: Allied Health Community
Assignment: Allied Health Community
View the scenario called “Critical Decision Making for Providers” found in the Allied Health Community media (https://lc.gcumedia.com/hlt307v/allied-health-community/home.html).
In a 750‐1,200 word paper, describe the scenario involving Mike, the lab technician, and answer the following questions:
What were the consequences of a failure to report?
What impact did his decision have on patient safety, on the risk for litigation, on the organization’s quality metrics, and on the workload of other hospital departments?
As Mike’s manager, what will you do to address the issue with him and ensure other staff members do not repeat the same mistakes?
A minimum of three academic references from credible sources are required for this assignment.
Task description:
Students are to engage with a consumer who is experiencing illness or who has had previous contact with the health care system.
Students are to produce a narrative piece of writing structured under Borton’s Framework for Reflection’s What? So What? and Now What? headings.
What? Students are to provide a synopsis of the consumer interaction (What did they say? / What happened to the consumer? / What was their experience?).
So What? Students are to provide a detailed exploration of the narratives of the consumer health journey with reference to the three narrative theories discussed in week 1. (What does it all mean? / What are the underlying themes? / What narrative theory is evident?).
Now What? Students are to provide an insightful reflection around how the interaction has contributed to their professional development (How the experience will make you a better nurse?).
Use the following structure as a guide for your assignment:
Cover page or header with the unit number, unit title, assignment title and your student number (not included in word count).
Introduction: Approximately 150 words, including in-text citations.
What? Synopsis of the consumer’s story (Approximately 400 words, including in-text citations).
So What? Exploration of the consumer’s narratives and narrative theory (Approximately 400 words, including in-text citations).
Now what? Refection on professional development (Approximately 400 words, including in-text citations).
Conclusion: Sum up the consumer journey/narratives/reflection (approximately 150 words, including in-text citations).
Reference list (not included in the word count).
You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.
