You are required to reflect on your practice as a care worker and key areas of personal learning. You should base your reflections on past experiences when working in healthcare

Care Support 5N0758/5N2770 Assessment Briefs

Part A – Assignment 30% | Part B – Learner Record 70%

Part B – Learner Brief

Learner Record 70%

2,500-3,500 words in total (+/- 10%)

Each Reflection – 10 marks | 500 words approx. each (+/- 10%)

Assessment Activity Description And Instructions To Learner:

You are required to reflect on your practice as a care worker and key areas of personal learning. You should base your reflections on past experiences when working in healthcare. You must use a reflective tool when writing the learner record such as Gibbs Reflective Cycle. See an example of a reflective cycle template below. You should address each of the following areas:

1. Reflection on relationships that develop with clients, relatives and members of the health care team (10 marks)
2. Reflection on interpersonal issues that arose in care work including the use of positive communication strategies (10 marks)
3. Reflection on your personal effectiveness as a care worker, identification of personal strengths and weaknesses (10 marks)
4. Reflection on the experience of receiving guidance and direction and giving and receiving feedback (10 marks)
5. Reflection on how you contributed positively as a team member through appropriate reporting and record keeping procedures (10 marks)
6. Reflection on your awareness of client dignity and how you promoted client’s Dignity (10 marks)
7. Reflection on the role and responsibilities of a care worker generally and how your beliefs and values impact on your work as a care worker (10 marks)

Reflective Cycle Template Example

Take the above 7 headings and apply each to the following reflective cycle or similar reflective cycle:

• Description of events – What happened?
• Review – thoughts, feelings, what was good/ bad – what was difficult/ went well?
• Evaluation – What have I learned? What influenced my actions? What were the consequences of the event (for me, the resident(s) or staff involved)?
• Analysis – Is there anything else I could have done? Could I have been better prepared? What skills do I need to acquire? Are there other people or resources I should have used? Would the outcome have been different if I had used resources or acted differently?
• Future Plan/Action – If it happened again, what would I do? What do I now need to do? What timeframe do I need to do it? What have I learned about myself? What have I learned from this that I can take with me for the future?

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Marking Guide

All marks are clearly outlined for each part of a question for your information when completing your assignment brief. Please follow the marking guide when planning your answers.

See below for breakdown of grades:

• Part A: Written Assignment 30%
• Part B: Reflection 70%

QQI Grading System:

• Distinction: 80%-100%
• Merit: 65%-79%
• Pass: 50%-64%
• Unclassified: 0%-49%

Structuring Your Assignment

Examine the marking scheme for each assignment, and use the headings provided in the marking scheme as paragraph headings for your work. By doing this you are far less likely to leave out something that attracts marks and also stops you from focusing too much on one area (One of the most common ways to lose marks).

Things To Watch Out For

• Marks do not carry over from one section to another. No matter how much you write on a given section, you cannot score more than the maximum allowed marks for that section.
• If you do not use headings in line with those in the marking guide, you are far more likely to leave out something that’s worth marks. Headings also make it easier for the examiner to give you marks, rather than having to hunt through an assignment for mention of the topic.
• Get somebody else to proofread your work before you submit it. It is much easier to spot mistakes in another person’s writing, and you can lose marks for careless mistakes. Tutors recommend that you send a draft of your assignment for feedback before submitting it in full to ensure you are heading in the right direction.
• Do not be significantly under or over the required word count (10% above or below is ok).
• Formatting matters! Use paragraphs and put headings in bold. Only use fonts such as Times New Roman or Arial as they are both professional and clear to read. Change the vertical spacing on your document to 1.5, only use black font color and use page numbers to make your assignment clearer to the assessor.

Checklist Of Documents Required

The following documents are required for full submission of your Care Skills Assignment Brief:

1. Cover Page (Use Assignment Template provided in this session)This Cover Page should be the first page of your assignment and include the following information:
   • Name of Student
   • Name of Module
   • PPSN
   • Email Address
   • Authorship Statement
2. Written AssignmentsThis will include Part A
3. Learner ReflectionThis includes your reflection using the Gibbs Cycle
4. Learner Record of Hours (Found in Session ‘Submitting an Assignment- Documents Required’ on Learn Upon)A record of proof of your required work placement hours.

Submitting Your Work

IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT YOU FOLLOW THESE GUIDELINES WHEN YOU ARE SUBMITTING YOUR WORK

Before you submit your work, you must ascertain that all aspects of the assignment brief have been answered. Organize your Documents to ensure you have not missed anything. A list of required documents is included in this booklet (Pages 13-14). Failure to follow this will result in your work not being graded until all aspects of the brief are submitted and could potentially cause a delay in results being issued. Please remember Chevron Policy dictates that Partial Submissions (All parts of Assignment Brief have not been submitted in full) will not be accepted. To ensure you are submitting correctly please upload all documents on the same day.

All written work must be submitted to the Turn-It-In Portal as per Chevron Policy, with no exceptions. A Turn-It-In Tutorial has been provided to you under the session ‘Submitting to Turn It In and Class ID’s’ on your Learn Upon dashboard. Here you will also find the Class ID and Enrolment Key unique to the module you are submitting.