Assessment Task - Essay
You are required to prepare a 1500-word essay, supported by a minimum of 6 scholarly references. The purpose of this task is for you to extend your skills in sourcing Information from nursing journals, apply this Information to a nursing topic, further develop your academic writing skills and practice your referencing skills in a written essay.
Please select ONE question from the below choices:
1. Explain how nursing (as either/or a profession or a discipline) has been shaped by the social and cultural changes that have occurred over the last 200 years.
2. Nurses in Australia are members of a regulated profession. Please discuss the importance of regulation in nursing, and explore why regulation is necessary due to the nature of nursing work.
3. There are ten National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards that were developed by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (ACSQHC). Please discuss at least two of the standards, as they relate to nursing, and explain why it is essential that nurses are aware of the quality and safety frameworks that govern nursing practice.
4. Select an influential figure from nursing, past or present. Explain their contribution to the profession and/or discipline, and their legacy on nursing.
5. Select a nursing theorist, and discuss how they have made a significant contribution to society or the advancement of nursing.
6. What is the fiduciary model of the nurse/patient relationship? Discuss some of the key ethical responsibilities nurses have as part of this relationship and explain why they are important.
7. Nursing has been subject to many stereotypes. Please identify and discuss at least two nursing stereotypes, and explore the ways they have impacted the perception of nursing as a profession.