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 (350 words).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 leastone impact the health inequality has on either the health orwellbeing of the patient/service user.
Section 2
–UsingEvidence to Improve Nursing Care (600words)From your discussion, identify and analyse onerelevant piece of research or policy which relates to quality orsafety. 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 careyour patient/service user receives. Section 3 –Self-Management and Ethics (400words)
Critically discuss one approach by which the nurse may help the patient/service userto manage their own health and analyse an underpinning ethical principle.To answer this section successfully you must:
Identify one self-management initiative,and discusshow this could empower the patient/service user to increase the management of their own health. Chooseoneoftheethicalprinciplesshownbelow,andanalysehowitrelatestothe role of the nurse in empowering patients: 1) Beneficence, 2) Non-maleficence, 3) Autonomy or 4)Justice.Conclusion (150words)Conclude the essay by connecting your discussion with the relevant United Nation’s (2015) Sustainable Development Goal(s)
