Capstone Experience in Health Care and Mental Health in Communities-Primary Health Care Unit

Capstone Experience in Health Care and Mental Health in Communities-Primary Health Care Unit

Order Description

Capstone Experience in Health Care
Assessment 1: Outline – Capstone Experience
Weighting: 20%
Word count: 2000

The aim of this assessment is to:

• Facilitate the planning of your capstone experience at the end of your degree
• Apply synthesised knowledge and skills to explore a professionally relevant topic
• Demonstrate higher-level applied written communication skills

Details
This assessment task provides you with the opportunity to outline a capstone experience that will enable you to demonstrate how you have integrated, applied and reflected on the knowledge and skills gained through your Masters course. It is an opportunity to apply your extended knowledge and skills to a professionally relevant topic area. The choice of topic is: Elderly Fall Prevention- A Staff Intervention to increase knowledge of fall risks in Long-Term Care Facilities.

In developing your plan it is useful to consider that the topic area needs to be:
• Relevant to your professional area of practice
• Sufficiently complex and achievable in the one year timeframe
• Measurable against stated learning outcomes

In this outline of your capstone experience you are required to provide/consider:

• A rationale for your choice of topic
• A well-informed conceptualisation of the capstone experience, supported by relevant literature
• Individual learning outcomes for your capstone experience
• The steps you will take to develop and operationalise your capstone experience project
• A critical reflection model or framework to support your reflections throughout the capstone experience

Reference:
https://safetyandquality.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Guidelines-RACF.pdf

https://www-clinicalkey-com-au.ezproxy.uws.edu.au/service/content/pdf/watermarked/1-s2.0-S1322769610000028.pdf?locale=en_AU

Assessment 3: Integrative Professional Portfolio or e-portfolio, including Critical Reflection
Weighting: 50%
Word count/duration: 5000

Aim of assessment
This assessment enables students to:
• Apply synthesised knowledge and skills to a professionally relevant topic in their capstone experience
• Critically reflect on their development of graduate capabilities gained through their studies.
• Demonstrate higher-level communication skills
• Generate an integrative professional portfolio

Details
This assessment requires you to develop and present a professionally relevant integrative portfolio that showcases critical reflection and synthesis of the knowledge and skills gained through your Masters level postgraduate studies. The make-up of the final portfolio will vary, depending on individual capstone experiences. However, there is an expectation that the portfolio will include:

• An introduction that includes the aims of the capstone experience
• A self-assessment statement in relation to individual learning outcomes developed at the beginning of the unit which is primary health care.
• A critical reflection and analysis of the capstone experience
• An integrated professional portfolio that supports capstone experience outcomes