Evaluate the impact of a recent healthcare initiative on nursing practice.
Assignment
Title- Evaluate the impact of a recent healthcare initiative on nursing practice.
Use this in addition to learning outcomes identified for written assignment in module handbook – Knowledge 1 and 2 Skills 1, 2, 3 and 5.
You need to focus on 1 healthcare initiative- for example this may be ‘Achieving World Class Cancer Outcome: A Strategy for England 2015-2020’, ‘the smoking ban’,
https://www.rsph.org.uk/our-work/policy/top-20-public-health-achievements-of-the-21st-century.html – this website provides a brief summary on a number of current health initiatives
Breaking down 2,000 words
Introduction (aprox 200 words)- What healthcare initiative has been chosen?
Aim of the initiative, who is the target audience, why has it been introduced?
History (aprox 800 words)- Prevalence of the issue, this is how many people are affected globally, nationally. Office of national statistics is a good resource to gain this information. How many people does this affect each year in the UK?
History before the initiative was introduced, this is the background of what the state of health care was then.
What strategies have been established to tackle the problem? This relates to the development of your health initiative.
Evaluate the initiative (Aprox 800 words)- What was good? What was bad? What worked and what isn’t working? What work is yet to do: what are the recommendations (refer to relevant literature here using key words of the initiative). If the initiative is very new consider what will be in place to asses how successful it is?
What was good? What was bad? What worked and what isn’t working? What work is yet to do: what are the recommendations (refer to relevant literature here using key words of the initiative).
Summary (aprox 200 words)- Summarise the findings from the above in your conclusion and pick up on the recommendations presented/given in the literature (that you give in the main body of your work) and give recommendations for future practice.
