Assignment Instructions/ Description
Task
This Case Study Assignment will require you to apply aspects of professional Health Science practice to a case study created by you. You will be required to select one of the clinical conditions listed for the summary report and write up a case study of a person with that clinical condition. You may choose the same condition that you used for the summary report; however, this is not a requirement. You are strongly recommended to use the proposed structure in writing up your case study.
Recommended structure for the case study:
Section 1: Description of the case (200 words)
In this section, you will be expected to describe a person’s condition and how the condition, when combined with contextual factors, impacts on their level of functioning in terms of impairments, daily activity limitations and social participation restrictions. You will be expected to use ICF components in your description.
Section 2: Description and justification of your intervention? (450 words)
In this section, you will be required to:
a define your role as a health professional (either in direct client service delivery or as an administrator of a health service organisation or public health professional)
b identify and describe an intervention? you may offer in the role you have defined to promote this person’s level of functioning (either in direct service delivery to the client or in administration or public health). Use scholarly publications/references?? to support your choice of intervention.
c Identify what components of the ICF your intervention may target
d identify any risks involved with the intervention and describe two strategies that will help to minimise these risks.
?An intervention refers to something you do as a health professional to assist the person (client/patient) or population group. It can include a treatment, activity, initiative, program or a service.
??Scholarly publications refer to academic references (books/journal articles) that are trustworthy and credible. With regard to websites, only publications from .gov or .edu are permitted.
Section 3: Identification of another health professional in the team and description of their role (300 words)
In this section, you will be required to:
a identify and describe the role of another health professional who is also working with this person/population group as part of the inter-professional team
b specify what components of the ICF this role may target.
Use scholarly publications to support this section.
Section 4: Specification of professionalism characteristics (300 words)
Choose 3 characteristics of professionalism and describe how you will demonstrate these when conducting your intervention as described in Section 2. Use scholarly publications to support your description of professional characteristics.
Section 5: Description and justification of person-centred/ population-centred strategies (250 words)
Describe 2 strategies you will implement to ensure that your practice is person-centred/population-centred. Use scholarly publications to support your strategies.
This assessment layout is a table:
700313 PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCIES IN HEALTH: CASE STUDY DRAFT WORKSHEET
Below is a recommendation of how you should draft your case study prior to writing. Please see the LG or vUWS site for further details.
Section 1: approx. 200 words
Description of the case.
Describe condition and how (when combined with contextual factors) it impacts their level of functioning in terms of:
o Impairments
o Daily activity limit
o Social participation restrictions
o Peterisa16yearoldboywithaBMI of 28 (obese).
o Bullied at school, low self -esteem o Doesn’t participate in sports, quite
breathless
o A diet in mainly processed take-
away
o Difficulty sleeping (possibly apnoea)
Section 2: approx. 450 words
Description and justification of intervention.
o Define your role as a health professional o Identify and describe an intervention
o Component of the ICF it targets
o Identify risks and two strategies to minimise risks
o Exercise physiologist
o Intervention: Apply an exercise
program
o ICF: Personal factors (self-esteem) o ICF: Participation (enable to
participate in sport) o Risk: injury
o Strategy 1: Adequate supervision (Tendle et al., 2017)
o Strategy 2: Pre-exercise assessment (Duncan et al., 2015)
Section 3: approx. 300 words
Identification of another health professional
Identify and describe the role of another health professional (inter-professional team)
o Specify what components of the ICF this role may target.
o Dietician
o ICF: Environmental (lack of
education on nutrition)
o ICF: Personal factors (poor body
image) (Jones & Wildley, 2015)
Section 4: approx. 300 words
Specification of professionalism characteristics / attributes (Lecture 2).
o Choose 3 characteristics of professionalism and demonstrate them when conducting intervention (in Section 2)
o Three characteristics/attributes: compassion and empathy, patience (Peters et al.,2020), team player (Sanderson, 2015)
(Lecture 2 content)
Section 5: approx. 250 words
Description/justification of person- centred/population centred strategies
o Two strategies to implement to ensure person/population centred approach
o Ensuring specific goals are met withing client’s time frame e.g. empowering them to be actively involved by including activities client enjoys (Jones & Wildley, 2015)
o Making goals achievable and challenging (Margot et al., 2018)
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