ASSESSMENT INFORMATION
Assessment Title	Assessment Task 1 - Professional Development Resource Narrated PowerPoint
Purpose	This assessment enables students to demonstrate their understanding of the palliative approach and the promotion of best practice in the clinical area.
Due Date	Wednesday 3rd September, 2023
Time Due	10 am
Weighting	50%
Submission	Submission of the assessment task is via the assessment 1 drop box in the NRSG374 LEO site on the Assessment tile.
Length	Narration length: 10 minutes (+/- 10%) (Video is not required) PowerPoint slide deck length: 10 slides including a title page and reference slides. Additional slides will not be accepted.
Rubric	Appendix 1 of the NRSG374 unit outline. The assessment will be marked using the criteria-based rubric.
LEO Resource	A national pre-recorded lecture is available on the Assessment tile in the NRSG374 LEO site, which provides students with an overview of the assessment as well as resources and advice on how to approach the task. A national Q&A session will be held during week four (4) of the semester via zoom. The Q&A session will provide students with the opportunity to clarify any questions, but the expectation is that students will have viewed the pre-recorded national lecture prior to attending. The date and a link for this session is available on the Communication and Support tile on the NRSG374 LEO site. Students are encouraged to post questions on the Assessment 1 Q&A forum on LEO and to check for answers there as a first point of query.
LOs Assessed	LO1, LO2, LO3, LO5, LO6
Task	Students will develop a 10-minute narrated PowerPoint based on one (1) of the key topics discussed by the Survivors Teaching Students program. Three Survivors Teaching Students sessions will occur in Week 3. All students are expected to attend at least one of the sessions. Dates and links for these sessions are available on the Survivors Teaching Students tile on the NRSG374 LEO unit. The sessions will also be recorded. This narrated PowerPoint is to be a professional development resource. The resource is to provide education, information and learning opportunities for final year nursing students and/or graduate nurses about a palliative care topic, the nurses role and how the National Palliative Care Standards relate to the topic. Application of the National Palliative Care Standards and other relevant contemporary evidence-based literature should be used to support the presentation.
Target Audience	Final year nursing students and/or graduate registered nurses. This is not a resource for the general consumer or community members. Therefore, you are expected to use professional terminology.

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Topics	Your professional development resource should focus on one of the following key topics discussed by the Survivors Teaching Students program: Barriers to early access to palliative care, including misconceptions and stigma Psychological and physical supports to improve quality of life in palliative care Family centred care in the palliative environment
PowerPoint Structure	Your Presentation should follow this format: Slide One: Title Slide - State your name, student number and identify which one of the three topics you have chosen to focus your presentation on. Slide Two: Provide an introduction, including what you will discuss in the presentation (refer to rubric). Outline the target audience and the learning outcomes for your presentation. Learning outcomes are what your target audience will have learnt/achieved by the end of your professional development resource. Slide Three: Provide an overview of palliative care and the principles of palliative care, referring to high-quality evidence. Slide Four: Provide an overview of the National Palliative Care Standards and identify and introduce three standards that most relate to your topic. You will then be incorporating the three chosen standards in Slides Five, Six and Seven. Slides Five: Outline one key learning/point from the Survivors Teaching Students program, that relates to your chosen topic. Link to evidence and the first of the three National Palliative Care Standards outlined on Slide Four, to support why this is an important point. Slide Six: Identify how the key learning/point identified in Slide Five can be managed/assessed. Support your information by referring to high-quality evidence and the second of the three National Palliative Care Standards outlined on Slide Four. Slide Seven: Outline the role of the registered nurse regarding the key learning/point identified in Slide Five. Support your information by referring to high-quality evidence and the third of the three National Palliative Care Standards outlined on Slide Four. Slide Eight: Conclusion Restate your key points and summarise the information presented. Slide Nine: References Slide Ten: References
FORMATTING
Recording your PowerPoint	Instructions on how to record a PowerPoint with narration and slide timings can be found here.
Recording your PowerPoint
Create your assessment in PowerPoint. Record your audio assessment in PowerPoint DO NOT record a video. LEO tech support recommend that students record the PowerPoint in mono single channel as this reduces the megabytes for a 10-minute recording from 100 megabytes down to 30. Saving your assessment
When saving your assessment, you must save it in a format that corresponds to

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	Turnitin. File types accepted by Turnitin include: .pptx, .ppt, .ppsx, .pps. Do not submit pdf, MP4 or Mac files. ACU has made Microsoft Office 365 available for students for either PC or Mac versions. If you experience technical difficulties, please review that you have recorded and saved your assessment as instructed above. If you continue to experience difficulties, please contact LEO tech support on Ph. 1800 246 442.
File to submit	You are to submit one PowerPoint file. You are not required to submit your script.
Font	Font size no smaller than 18-point. Minimum font size for the reference list is 12-point. Font style Calibri, Arial or Times New Roman. Headings you can use headings to support the delivery of information. Images you can include images, however, please ensure they support and add value to your work. Images need to be referenced using APA7 referencing.
REFRENCING
Referencing Style	APA 7th edition - Please refer to the ACU APA7 Referencing guide for detailed
information and resources.
Intext Referencing	The narrated PowerPoint presentation must include intext citations on the slides. Intext citations should be placed next to their corresponding text, not at the bottom of the slide. It is a requirement that you reference the points on your slides.
Minimum References	A minimum of 15 high quality resources are to be used. All arguments must be supported using a variety of high-quality primary evidence. Avoid using any one source repetitively.
Reference Age	Published in the last 5 years unless using seminal text.
Order	References are arranged alphabetically by author family name within the reference list.
Hanging Indent	Second and subsequent lines of a reference have a hanging indent.
DOI	Presented as functional hyperlink.
Spacing	Single spacing within a reference. A space is required between references.
ADMINISTRATION
Late Penalties	Late penalties will be applied from 10:01pm on the due date, incurring 5% penalty of the maximum marks available up to a maximum of 15%. Assessment tasks received more than three calendar days after the due or extended date will not be allocated a mark.

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	An assignment is submitted 12 hours late and is initially marked at 60 out of 100. A 5% penalty is applied (5% of 100 is 5 marks). Therefore, the student receives 55 out of 100 as a final mark.
Return of Marks	Marks and feedback will be returned electronically via Turnitin. These will generally be returned in three weeks of the submission due date; if there are any changes you will be notified via the LEO announcements forum.
Academic Integrity	Academic integrity will be monitored in all assessments submitted. Use APA7 referencing style and paraphrase adequately. Turnitin monitors the use of artificial intelligence. Be sure to submit your own work. Submit your assessment with enough time to obtain your similarity report from Turnitin and review your citations and paraphrasing to see if they need to be improved.
Extensions	All extension request forms need to be submitted electronically to the extension application drop box on the NRSG374 LEO site on the Assessment tile. This should normally occur at least 24 hours before the due date and time as per ACU Assessment Procedures Section 2 Student Responsibilities. If submitting
within 24hrs of the prescribed due date/time - the exceptional circumstances must have arisen with the 24hrs leading up to the due date/time. There is no need to email the LIC to notify them you have submitted an extension request. The extension request drop box is checked Monday to Friday during normal business hours for new extension requests. Staff will only review applications received in office hours and not on a public holiday. If your EIP contains provisions for extension to assessment tasks you must still, follow the standard university procedure to apply for an extension. If your reason for seeking an extension is unrelated to the condition identified in your EIP, you may be required to provide evidence of your circumstances.
Special Consideration	If you cannot complete an assessment due to difficult circumstances, you may be eligible for special consideration. Before completing a Special Consideration Form,
make sure you are familiar with the criteria and processes.
Special consideration request forms for a single unit (NRSG374) need to be submitted electronically to the special consideration application drop box on the NRSG374 LEO site on the Assessment tile. If applying for special consideration across multiple units, the special consideration form needs to be forwarded to your Course Coordinator for review. Special consideration for one assessment task cannot be submitted before the assessment due date and can only be submitted up to five working days after the relevant assessment due date.
Assessment template project informed by ACU student forums, ACU Librarians and the Academic Skills Unit.

NRSG374 _ Assessment 1: Professional Development Resource Australian Catholic University 2023 _ Page 4 of 4 NRSG374 Principles of Nursing: A Palliative Approach Assessment Task 1 2023 Assessment Task 1 Brief Overview Professional Development Resource

• Narrated PowerPoint
• Based on the Survivors Teaching Students program
• 10 minutes - 10 slides

• 50%
• Q&A week 4

Where do you find all the info?
AT1 resources AT1 information AT1 discussion forum AT1 submission drop boxes AT1 Extension and special consideration application drop boxes This AT1 video AT1 Q&A recording (week 4)

• Week 4
• 9am
• Zoom link on Communication and

Support tile So, what do you have to do? 1. Pick a topic

1. Barriers to early access to palliative

care, including misconceptions and stigma (Monday 14th August 2023 9am)

1. Psychological and physical supports

to improve quality of life in palliative care (Monday 14th August 2023 4pm)

1. Family centred care in the palliative

environment (Tuesday 15th August 11:30am)

1. Attend the Survivors Teaching

Students session that focusses on your chosen topic (week 3) - you can attend all three sessions ?

1. Create a 10-minute PowerPoint (+/-

10% - so min 9, max 11 minutes) The PowerPoint should provide education, information and learning opportunities for final year nursing students and/or graduate nurses about the topic, the nurses role and how the National Palliative Care Standards relate to the topic

• Name

• Student number

• Identify which one of

the three topics you have chosen to focus your presentation on

Attachments:

NRSG374-ASSES....pdf