NURS761 Assessment 2 Brief

Assessment Schedule

Arahitanga me te Rangahau mo te Mahi Tapuhi  / Leadership and Research for Nursing

AROMATAWAI TUARUA  |  ASSESSMENT 2 – OUTLINE

TASK / AIM

This is your capstone essay for the paper. You will take a New Zealand nursing scenario and critically evaluate leadership, management, and education strategies that promote hauora and interprofessional collaboration.

CONDITIONS

• Weighting: 40%
• Word count: 1000 words (plus or minus 10%, excluding reference list)
• Pass mark: 50%
• Learning outcomes assessed: LO3, LO4, LO5 only
• Submission: Word document, APA 7th referencing

AI TOOL USE

You are   NOT ALLOWED to use AI tools for any part of this assessment.

This includes using AI tools for research or writing purposes. Please read the instructions for an explanation of why AI tools have been deemed inappropriate.

NOTE: Any AI contribution reliably detected in your submission will be treated as “Inappropriate use”.

TASK DETAILS / INSTRUCTIONS / STEPS / GUIDELINES

WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND WHY

This is your capstone essay for the paper. You will take a New Zealand nursing scenario and critically evaluate leadership, management, and education strategies that promote hauora and interprofessional collaboration. You will also evaluate how research and leadership enable culturally responsive environments, and you will integrate a self-care framework for personal and professional resilience. In plain terms, you are showing you can lead without burning out, and you can lead in a way that actually fits Aotearoa.

CHOOSE ONE QUESTION

11. Leading safer care: You are the charge nurse in a NZ medical ward with rising falls and medication incidents. Critically evaluate leadership and education strategies to improve hauora and interprofessional teamwork, and explain how culturally responsive practice will be enabled. Integrate a self-care framework for sustained resilience in the team and yourself.
12. Primary care pressure: You are leading a NZ primary care nursing team to reduce avoidable admissions for people with diabetes. Evaluate leadership strategies, interprofessional collaboration, and how you will use research evidence to create a culturally responsive environment for Māori and Pacific peoples. Integrate a self-care framework to prevent moral distress and burnout.
13. Mental health leadership: You are part of a NZ inpatient mental health service aiming to reduce seclusion and restraint. Evaluate leadership and educational strategies that support the change with interprofessional collaboration, and discuss how research and leadership can strengthen a culturally responsive, trauma-informed environment. Integrate a self-care framework for resilience.
14. Rural inequity: You are leading a NZ community nursing service covering rural areas with limited access to GPs and transport. Evaluate leadership and management strategies that improve access and collaboration across services, and explain how you will enable culturally responsive practice using evidence. Integrate a self-care framework that fits shift work and community practice.
15. ED reality: You are leading a multidisciplinary initiative to improve pain management and communication in a NZ emergency department with high complaint rates. Evaluate leadership, management, and educational strategies to promote hauora and interprofessional collaboration. Evaluate the impact of research and leadership on cultural responsiveness. Integrate a self-care framework.
16. Aged care workforce: You are a clinical nurse educator in a NZ residential aged care facility with high staff turnover and missed care. Evaluate education and leadership strategies that promote hauora and teamwork, and explain how research evidence can support culturally responsive environments for residents and whānau. Integrate a self-care framework for professional resilience.
17. Te Tiriti in action: You are leading a quality improvement project to strengthen cultural safety in a NZ surgical ward. Evaluate leadership and management strategies to promote hauora and collaboration, and assess how research and leadership enable culturally responsive environments. Integrate a self-care framework for the nursing workforce.
18. Digital nursing leadership: You are implementing a new e-triage or telehealth nursing service in NZ. Evaluate leadership strategies, interprofessional collaboration, and how you will use research evidence to ensure the environment remains culturally responsive and equitable. Integrate a selfcare framework for the team in a digital work setting.

TASK INSTRUCTIONS (WHAT TO INCLUDE)

• Define the practice problem and why it matters for hauora in Aotearoa (include the population and the setting).
• Leadership and management: justify at least two strategies (for example change management approach, clinical governance, coaching, education plan, audit and feedback).
• Interprofessional collaboration: specify how you will build teamwork across disciplines and services, and how you will know it is working.
• Culturally responsive environments: evaluate how your leadership choices and use of research evidence will enable cultural safety and responsiveness, including Te Tiriti aligned practice and reduction of inequity.
• Self-care framework: select one framework (for example Compassion Fatigue and job satisfaction, Te Whare Tapa Whā applied to staff wellbeing, mindfulness-based stress reduction, resilience frameworks) and critically appraise how you will apply it to yourself and your team.
• Use evidence throughout. You should be making a case, not writing a motivational poster.

MINIMUM EVIDENCE EXPECTATIONS

• Use at least 12 scholarly sources, including at least 6 peer-reviewed research articles and at least 2 NZ policy or guideline sources where relevant.
• Your evidence must include leadership or change management literature and culturally responsive practice literature.
• Quality matters. Choose evidence that would stand up in a professional discussion with senior clinicians.

 NURS761 ASSESSMENT 2 – MARKING RUBRIC

SUBMISSION

• Submit as a Word document with a title page including your name, student ID, word count, and chosen question number. (It is always best to write using a live document then download for submission)
• Use APA 7th referencing. Use headings to make your structure visible.
• Keep within the word count. Over by more than 10% will be penalised according to course policy.
• You are responsible for what you submit. If you upload the wrong file, that is still the file we can mark.
• Academic integrity applies. If you use AI tools, follow course rules and cite or acknowledge as required by your programme policy.