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Assessment 1
Guidelines for assessment 1
1. This assessment is to be submitted electronically using EASE.
2. Use Times New Roman Font size 11, double line spacing.
3. Referencing using Harvard AGPS Referencing Style for ALL IDEAS AND CONCEPTS
you have used. See:
4. Use the Marking Criteria for your assessment to guide you.
Assessment 1 topic:
Concepts of disability: Interaction between health conditions, environmental and personal
factors in the lives of people experiencing disability. Disability: the lived experience: The
effect of the disability experience on the individual, family and community.
Description Marks out
of
Wtg(%) Due date
Assessment 1: Concepts of disability:
Interaction between health conditions,
environmental and personal factors in the
lives of people experiencing disability.
Disability: the lived experience: The
effect of the disability experience on the
individual, family and community.
100 45.00% 19/04/12
Assessment description: You are to produce a report, using the sections below as a guide
with a maximum word limit of 2500 words (statement of case study, Section C table and
reference list are not included). The aim of assessment in this module is to simulate an
experience of disability to provide you with some insights of what this would be like. It is
recommended that you write in first person e.g. I am a 35 year old and so on.
Section A: Choose a case study
You need to choose one case study of a person with a disability from the following list and
consider what it would be like to live for one whole day with this condition. The severity of
your selected disability is at a level where it is causing significant challenges to your quality
of life. You are no longer able to work in your previous occupation and can now work a
maximum of 5 hours per week (if at all). You will need to consider the home you currently
live in. If you had to live with the disability you have selected (below), what difficulties
would you face in continuing to live at your present address?
? University of Southern Queensland
18 NUR3010 ? Rehabilitation in community settings
The list of case studies to choose from are:
1. Acquired Brain injury ( Traumatic ? 12 months post injury) :You are a 37 year old
man living with your wife and 2 teenage sons in Emerald in Central Queensland.
2. Multiple Sclerosis: You are a 33 year female living in Bowen in North Queensland.
You live with your husband and 2 school age children.
3. Systemic lupus erythematosus: You are a 32 year old male living in Hughenden in
North Western Queensland with your wife and 1 small child.
4. Heart Failure (Cardiomyopathy ? due to recent virus) : You are a 39 year old
woman living with your sister and her 2 primary school aged children in Kingaroy in
South West Queensland.
5. Right (dominant) above elbow amputation – Traumatic MVA & 12 months post
injury: You are a 28 year old female living alone in Chinchilla in South West
Queensland.
Example statement of the case study:
? I am a 35 year female living in Roma in Western Queensland. I live with my husband
and 2 school age children. My home is low set with 4 steps, and has 2 levels inside with
my bedroom and bathroom on the upper level. It is also important to include a short
statement about any challenges you would face living in your current home as your case
study.
Section B: Disability Awareness ( Total 700 words)
1. Using either websites, texts or journal articles, provide a brief outline of the effects of the
disability you have chosen as your case study on your body, including the impact of your
condition on everyday functioning.
2. Based on your case study, and using reference material (texts and /or journal articles)
discuss the possible effects of the experience of disability on your immediate and
extended family unit.
Responses to questions 3 & 4 may be presented in Table format if you choose (word
count still applies).
3. Identify any relevant international, national, state and local organisations that can provide
you with information and/or support. This information and/or support can be available
physically, by phone or via the internet. For example there might be international or
national organisations with information and on-line support via a website; there might be
telephone support services; there might be local support groups.
4. Clearly identify which organisations in your area would help you to holistically manage
your own daily activities of living, e.g. domiciliary nursing, community nursing, day
respite services and the likely frequency of services. These need to be realistic and
available in the community where you (as your case study) live ? not a ?wish list?. You
can also include any support groups that may offer psychological, spiritual or social
support in your area.
? University of Southern Queensland
NUR3010 ? Rehabilitation in community settings 19
Section C : Daily living (no word limit ? maximum 2 pages)
Imagine living a day with the condition you have chosen.
Starting from when you get up to when you go to bed, imagine how will you get out of bed,
shower, dress, toilet, meals, go up /down stairs, get on a bus in your wheelchair or using a
walking frame? How will you shop/work? Can you drive, hang washing and so on? There is
no need to repeat activities which occur several times during the day e.g. Complete the table
for toileting once only. This also needs to be both financially affordable as your case study,
and realistic from an available service provision perspective.
Provide a document under the following headings. A table format (below) is recommended
for this section.
Time/Activity Ease of doing
an activity or
participating
(0-4)
0= no
difficulty
4= complete
difficulty.
Barriers or
Facilitators you
have encountered
Your solution/s to
overcome the barriers
Approximate
financial cost
to you
7am: Getting
out of bed
3 No railing to use Electronic bed would
help
7.15am: Going
to the toilet
4 Unable to stand Required personal
assistance
Section D : Challenges (total 1800 words)
Use the International Classification of Function, Disability and Health (ICF) as a framework
to answer the following, particularly Section D (1) and (2). You should also use NUR3010
course material and other scholarly references to support your discussion.
1. List and discuss the social restrictions you face as a result of your disability. For
example, how easy is it for you to be able to maintain family and friend relationships?
(450 words)
2. What community or environmental challenges do you face, and how have you adjusted to
them? Discuss the changes you have needed to make in your life and also make any
suggestions for community environmental changes that could enable community
participation, e.g. wheelchair ramps. (450 words)
3. Discuss how you may react to your disability from the perspective of self concept, body
image and self-esteem. (450 words)
4. Also discuss the concepts of pity, paternalism, self efficacy and independence in relation
to rehabilitation and health care professionals treating people with a disability.
(450 words)
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