92721 Health Education and Health Promotion assignment

Additional Guidelines: Assessment Task 1: Implementing Best Practice Guidelines for Health Promotion

 Aim: The aim of the assessment 92721 Health Education and Health Promotion is to provide an opportunity for students to critically review the implementation of a best practice guideline that has relevance for people living with a chronic illness.

 Style:  Essay style but sub-headings and/or sections can be used to assist with layout and development. Length: 1800-2000

92721 Health Education and Health Promotion is an  individual assessment and here is its summary:

Task Summary:

Preparation – please select an endorsed best practice guideline relevant to your area or practice OR interest. As a preparatory activity, undertake a review of the guideline using the AGREE II tool (provided in Canvas). A written summary of this review will form an appendix for the assignment.

Main assignment: the main purpose of the assignment is to critically review the implementation of the best practice guideline in relation to a specified consumer/patient group, relevant to your current or future practice. For example, but not limited to,  adolescents with type 1 diabetes, middle aged men with type two diabetes, women with cardiovascular disease, asthma in the elderly, young people with chronic back pain.

Content will include: A description of the specified consumer/patient group, summary of the best practice guideline, discussion of the barriers and enablers at an individual, local, national and/or international levels including political and media aspects that impact the implementation and effectiveness of the best practice guideline, supported by relevant literature.

Detailed Guidelines:

Preparation:

1. Select and review a Best Practice Guideline (may also be referred to as Clinical Practice Guidelines, Evidenced Based Guidelines)

• Select an endorsed best practice guideline relevant to your practice. If a large, comprehensive, multi-section type guideline is selected it may be appropriate to focus on one key section for the actual main assessment task. The review should however, reflect the whole document.
• As a preparatory activity you will undertake a review of your chosen the guideline using the AGREE II tool  – provided in Canvas and available here: https://www.agreetrust.org/agree-ii/
• The AGREE appraisal instrument can be downloaded from the right hand side menu on the AGREE Trust website.
• The document is a combined user’s manual and appraisal tool. The appraisal tool starts on page 42.
• The completed ‘instrument/tool’ does not need to be submitted. A written summary is to be submitted to Canvas for formative feedback. The written summary is also included with your submitted assessment as an appendix.