Critically examine the role and responsibilities of the nurse in safeguarding people across the lifespan elucidating key concepts, policy and law that influence decision making

What am I required to do in this assignment?
Your critical incident analysis will be specific to your practice experiences and is aimed at exploring the impact this has on your development as a student nurse. You are required to select an example where you observed or participated in a safeguarding situation in practice in which a decision was made about a patient or service user. Once you have identified this practice experience, you should write an analytical account with the following elements:
 Introduction
 Context of your practice experience
 Overview of your critical incident
 Critical analysis of the safeguarding decision, related to key literature and evidence
 Voice of the adult/child/relative and their experiences
 Impact of the incident on your practice
 Reflection and recommendations for future development
 Conclusion

Key assignment details
Unit title & code NUR031-3 Advocacy, Empowerment and Protection
Assignment number and title Assignment 1 – Critical Incident Analysis
Assignment type CW-RW Written Assignment
Weighting of assignment 100%
Size or length of assessment 2000 words
Unit learning outcomes 1. Demonstrate the following knowledge and understanding
 Critically examine the role and responsibilities of the nurse in safeguarding people across the lifespan elucidating key concepts, policy and law that influence decision making.
2. Demonstrate the following skills and abilities
 Risk assess and critically evaluate situations where there is risk to an individual or group demonstrating sound judgement and articulate professional responses
Detailed guidance
 You should briefly but clearly describe the situation you are discussing, giving enough detail for your reader to understand the context but not providing a purely descriptive account of the events
 You should provide a rationale for why your incident is important for both practice and your development, and support this appropriate literature
 You should clearly present your analysis of the incident and the critical aspects of this decision for patient and service user safety,
experience and wellbeing as well as risk management and support this with appropriate theory and literature from within the unit and your own additional reading
 You should evaluate the effectiveness of the decision and support this with appropriate literature
 You should consider the views and experiences of others within your work, with particularly reference to the voice of the service user
 You should evaluate your reflection of the impacts of your analysis with literature, and analyse the impacts this will have on your own future practice
 You should discuss and reflect on how your analysis could give new understanding in safeguarding practice and offer recommendations for your own development
 You should support your work throughout with appropriate citations and references to the literature and present this in accordance with the requirements of the University of Bedfordshire referencing guidance