ASSESSMENT INSTRUCTIONS & MARKING GUIDE
Topic Code & Name: Nurs 3005 Transition to Professional Practice 2 (PEP)
Assessment Number &
Title (as per SAM):
Assignment 1:
Individual Poster: Specialty Stream content Assessment (1500 words +/- 10%)
Assessment Description: Poster Presentation
This assignment requires you to create a poster (using the template provided) addressing a Question
or issue from your specialty stream content (you must do your assignment on the topics from your
first specialty content tutorial).
You are expected to read a wide range of peer reviewed journal articles to support your discussions,
this assignment requires you to present the current researched evidence throughout your poster.
Points that you need to address:
• Question or Issue to be stated in the title of the poster. Your specialty stream tutor will
identify the options which you can do for this assignment.
• Background- discuss the background knowledge of the question or issue, ensuring it is
relevant to your specialty stream content.
• Include Key Messages- Perform a literature search and identify 3 key messages which you
want to present to support the importance of discussing your question or issue.
• Recommendations:
• What recommendations can be made for clinical practice surrounding your question or
issue?
• Does it require further research? Sometimes reading through the limitations and exclusions
criteria of articles helps.
• Think of the ways for providing education and developing policy and procedures.
• Implementation of results:
• Discuss how the literature you have reviewed, and recommendations made can be
implemented in practice. Always remember to link in to your question or issue.
• Based on the answers you have got from the literature are there any implications for
practice? This could be positive or negative implications. Are there any disagreements
between the authors or conflicting results? Is the evidence strong enough to change a
practice?
Other
• You may alter the template to make the poster individual
• Images can be used as it will make the poster more visually appealing.
Remember to reference as per the normal university policy- APA 6th edition, intext and reference
list- don’t forget to reference any images used.
Performance standard
