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HNN348 Rural & Remote Area Nursing
Assessment Task 2
1200 words (30% weighting)
Purpose of assessment task
This assessment task provides you with the opportunity to critically analyse and synthesise
information from different academic sources and apply your knowledge of issues faced by
nurses working in rural and remote areas of Australia, ensuring access to improved health
outcomes.
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Topic background:
Registered nurses need to have up to date knowledge and skills in order to provide
appropriate health care for people living in rural and remote areas. Many rural and remote
areas in Australia experience more natural disasters than many metropolitan areas.
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Case study:
Assignment Question:
Using the case study above, answer the following questions:
Describe two (2) safety and/or ethical issues that registered nurses might encounter when
working in small health services in their home community when disasters such as cyclones
occur (approx. 500 words)
Addressing the safety/ethical issues identified in question 1, discuss relevant strategies the
registered nurse could implement to improve safety for clinicians and their patients in these
circumstances. In your answer, identify two (2) professional resources that the registered
nurse can use to provide evidence based safe practice in this situation (approx. 700 words)
Instructions for this assessment task:
To be successful with this assessment task you are strongly advised to:
• Draw upon relevant cloud concepts, videos, literature and content provided in this
unit.
• Headings can be used for this assessment task.
• Identify relevant literature, which should mainly include peer-reviewed journal
articles as well as government reports. The suggested readings in the unit are a good
place to start. References that are not peer reviewed such as Wikipedia, Better Health
Channel, and .com sites are not appropriate for this assessment task as the
information provided at these sites are targeted at consumers, not health professionals
and are not always evidence based or accurate.
• We have designed the rubric to help you develop an understanding of the expected
standard, and the qualities that make good work. We recommend that at the start of
your assignment preparation, you become familiar with each of the assessment
You are a registered nurse working in a small health service in a rural town in far
north Queensland, 5km inland from the coast. The town has a population of
approximately 1,500 people, however, it also often has a large transient tourist
population throughout the year.
The health service offers accident and emergency, acute care and aged care services
and has visiting specialist services throughout the year (e.g. respiratory medicine,
gynecology). During business hours there are two doctors on site, and after hours
they are only available on call. The hospital is staffed by four registered nurses
during the day, with two registered nurses and two enrolled nurses staffing the night
shift.
You are working the morning shift and the health service has just been alerted that a
cyclone has formed off the coast and is expected to make landfall in the next 24-48
hours. All staff will need to be ready for all phases of the disaster management
continuum; pre-incident, incident, and post-incident phases.
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criteria and descriptors in the rubric, and refer to them continually as you undertake
your planning, research, writing and revision.
• Check your assignment against the marking rubric and the instructions before
submission to ensure you have addressed all the requirements.
Presentation requirements:
For all presentation requirements, please see document titled ‘SoNM Assignment
Presentation Requirements’ located in each of the assessment task folders within the HNN348
CloudDeakin unit site.
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| Criterion mode: Points | High Distinction | Distinction | Credit | Pass | Fail | ||||
| Starting % | 80 | Starting % | 70 | Starting % | 60 | Starting % | 50 | Starting % | 0 |
| Criterion 1 Describes safety and ethical issues rural and remote area nurses may encounter during disasters. |
Accurately identifies and thoroughly explains the most important safety or ethical issues nurses may face during disasters. (16-20 points) |
Describes important safety or ethical issues nurses face during disasters. (14-15 points) |
Describes safety or ethical issues related to registered nurses working in rural and remote areas during disasters. (12-13 points) |
Describes safety or ethical issues somewhat related to rural and remote area nurses during disasters. (10-11 points) |
No relevant safety or ethical issues identified and/or lacks description of the issues identified. (0-9 points) |
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| Points/Percentage | 20 | ||||||||
| Criterion 2 Draws on relevant literature to discuss relevant strategies the registered nurse could implement to improve safety for both staff and patients during disasters. |
Discusses relevant and feasible strategies likely to enhance the safety or ethical issues described. (24-30 points) |
Discusses the possible strategies related to the safety or ethical issues described. (21-24 points) |
Discussed strategies related to the safety or ethical issues described. (18-20 points) |
Briefly discusses strategies related to the safety or ethical issues described. (15-17 points) |
Does not discuss relevant strategies related to the safety and ethical issues described. (0-14 points) |
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| Points/Percentage | 30 | ||||||||
| Criterion 3 Identifies two professional resources the registered nurse could draw on to provide evidence based and safe care in this situation. |
Resources identified are current, evidence-based, and relevant to the scenario and target the intended audience. (8-10 points) |
Resources identified are current, evidence-based and relevant to the scenario. (7 points) |
Resources identified are evidence-based and relevant to the scenario. (6 points) |
Resources identified are relevant to the scenario. (5 points) |
Professional resources identified are not related to the scenario OR no professional resources were identified. (0-4 points) |
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| Points/Percentage | 10 | ||||||||
| Criterion 4 Discussion is supported with peer reviewed scientific literature |
All literature selected is relevant and contemporary and skilfully used to strongly support the discussion (8-10 points) |
All literature selected is relevant and contemporary, and mostly used to support the discussion (7 points) |
Most of the literature selected is relevant and used to support the discussion (6 points) |
Some of the literature selected is relevant and sometimes used to support the discussion (5 points) |
Literature selected was either irrelevant or inadequate and/or not used/rarely used to support the discussion (0-4 points) |
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| Points/Percentage | 10 | ||||||||
| Criterion 5 Writing is in accordance with standard language conventions and assignment is presented according to instructions |
Content is structured logically, fluently written, and uses correct language conventions. Structure, headings and presentation provide a logical flow of key concepts. Free from spelling or grammatical errors. |
Content is clearly written and follows a logical structure with few errors in spelling, grammar or presentation. (7 points) |
Content is generally clearly written and structured with some errors in spelling, grammar or presentation (6 points) |
Content conveys meaning but has errors in spelling, grammar or presentation which detracts from the flow of discussion at times (5 points) |
Content doesn’t follow a clear structure and contains multiple errors in spelling, grammar and/or presentation that significantly detracts from the readability of the assignment (0-4 points) |
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| Points/Percentage | 10 |
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| Criterion 6 Literature has been cited using APA6 style referencing guidelines |
All literature has been accurately cited and formatted (both in-text citations and references) according to APA6 style without error (8-10 points) |
Literature has been accurately cited and formatted according to APA6 style references with very few errors (7 points) |
Literature has been cited and formatted according to APA6 style referencing but contains some errors in either in text citations or the reference list (6 points) |
Literature has been cited using APA6 style referencing but there are many errors with the style or citation formatting throughout the assignment. It may help to carefully review the APA6 style guidelines. (5 points) |
Consistently incorrect referencing style, or did not use APA6 referencing style guidelines (0-4 points) |
| Points/Percentage | 10 | ||||
| Total Points | 90 |
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