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Access Course: Nursing and Health Related Professionals

Unit Title: Psychology and Sociology of Health - Communication

Name: Monique Mavronicolas

Assignment Title/Briefing: This assignment asks you to demonstrate an appreciation of the ways in which behaviour may be influenced by biological, individual, environmental and social factors.You will also be exploring communication in the health care setting

Submission deadline 19th March 2015

Mapping to UnitThis assignment covers the following learning outcomes & assessment criteria for this unitLearning Outcomes/ Assessment Criteria (e.g. 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1 etc)

LO: 4 and 5Criteria 4.1 and 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3

Grading information for this assignment(Add/delete sections below if this assignment uses more/less than four grade descriptors)

Grade descriptor: 1 Understanding of the subjectFor a pass you should:

Meet the assessment criteria to achieve the learning outcomes for the unit.

For a merit you should:

Demonstrate a very good grasp of the relevant knowledge base, by Critically evaluating the way in which behaviour can affect the relationship between the patient and healthcare professional with reference to factors such as stress, aggression and assertion, life space, response to pain etc.

For a distinction you should:

Demonstrate an excellent grasp of the relevant knowledge base by Critically evaluating the way in which behaviour can affect the relationship between the patient and healthcare professional with reference to factors such as stress, aggression and assertion, life space, response to pain etc.

Additional Guidance notes

You will need to make sure that you research relevant source of information including appropriate data to support your explanations and evaluations.

Assertion in this instance is communication and understanding.

Grade descriptor: 2 Application of Knowledge For a pass you should:

Meet the assessment criteria to achieve the learning outcomes for the unit.

For a merit you should:

Evaluate the importance of good communication between the healthcare professional and the patient.Analyse the barriers to communication in health care settings and ways in which they can be over overcome.Explain how effective communication can be achieved in the

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healthcare setting you will need to make sure you have made use of relevant ideas and facts with either a breadth or depth that goes beyond the requirements for a pass with very good levels of insight and accuracy.

For a distinction you should:

Evaluate the importance of good communication between the healthcare professional and the patient. Analyse the barriers to communication in health care settings and ways in which they can be over overcome. Explain how effective communication can be achieved in the healthcare setting. You will need to make sure you have made use of relevant ideas and facts with a breadth and depth that goes beyond the requirements for a merit with excellent levels of insight and accuracy.

Additional Guidance notes

I will expect you to take into account cultural, social, sensory, physical environmental and individual factors.

Grade descriptor: 7 QualityFor a pass you should:

Meet the assessment criteria to achieve the learning outcomes for the unit.

For a merit you should:

The work taken as a whole, demonstrates a very good response to the demands of the assignment, and has put forward arguments or ideas which are generally unambiguous but which in a minor way are limited or incomplete.

For a distinction you should:

The work taken as a whole demonstrates an excellent response to the demands of the assignment; and has put forward arguments or ideas which are consistently unambiguous and cogent.

Additional Guidance notesDeclaration: I confirm that this assignment is all my own work and that it conforms to the course policy on plagiarism as stated in the course handbook. Print name:Monique Mavronicolas

Learner signature: Date:19 March 2015

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