NAM4034 Fundamental skills for Nursing Written Care Plan CW1 Assignment Brief 2025-26 | BNU

Module code & title:	NAM4034 Fundamental skills for Nursing	Module leader:	Chrystal Sparks
Assignment No. and type:	CW1 Assignment Written care plan	Assessment weighting:	100%
Submission time and date:	Monday 15th December 2025 14:00	Target feedback time and date:	January 19th, 2026 14:00

Assignment task

You are required to develop a 1500- word nursing care plan (excluding the reference list) based on the scenario provided.

The Care plan MUST cover the following aspects:

• Analysing the scenario to identify the patient’s needs and problems.
• Evaluating the clinical data using appropriate assessment tools (e.g., NEWS2, MUST, BMI).
• Implement relevant nursing tasks and interventions.
• Applying the nursing process (Assessment, Planning, Implementation, Evaluation) for each identified problem or need, to formulate a patient-centred care plan.
• Integrating the Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) to ensure holistic care.
• Link the care plan and scenario to the nursing standards and apprenticeship standards. Using the NMC code of conduct and the apprenticeship standards.

Your care plan MUST:

• Be submitted using the template provided in your Assignment folder on Blackboard. You must not write an essay. All words must be written within the template.
• Be written in an academic style, using professional nursing terminology. Avoid using bullet points.
• Written in third person.
• Include evidence-based rationales.
• Use Harvard-style referencing, including in-text citations and a full reference list.
• Demonstrate understanding of safe, effective, and person-centred care in line with the NMC Code (2018).

You have been given field-specific scenarios. You can find these in the assignment brief section on Blackboard.

Getting Support for Your Assignment

Your first point of advice should be the person setting the assignment or the module leader.

If you need more general support with your studies (e.g. academic writing, referencing, critical thinking), then the Student Learning and Achievement Team can support the development of your academic skills.

This assignment has been designed to provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate your achievement of the following module learning outcomes:

LO1: Use professional terminology and language used within clinical environments with accuracy and in the correct context.

LO2: Demonstrate a safe approach to fundamental nursing skills

LO3: Apply the nursing process to routine clinical scenarios

LO4: Safely document aspects of care

LO5: Identify indications for routine nursing interventions.

Practicalities: Referencing, presenting and submitting your work

Assignment formatting:

The assessed coursework element for the module is a 1,500 word (+ or – 10%) referenced essay.

Your Work should be written in an academic style of writing and use full sentences with paragraphs.

Your submitted work must include:

• page numbers
• be presented in size 12, Arial font
• Be left- hand-aligned
• Have an additional line space between paragraphs

You must include the title page provided on Blackboard with the following information:

• Module code and Module name.
• The actual number of words used (excluding reference list/ title page/ appendix)
• The submission date.
• Your seminar leader’s name & the module leader’s name

Sources and References:

• You should use at least 12 sources/references to inform this piece of work. These should be a variety of academic sources e.g., articles from peer-reviewed journals, textbooks, professional guidance, and policy documents.
• Please reference your work according to the Harvard style as outlined in the university’s Harvard referencing Guide for nursing students 2026 ( available on the module shell). Additionally, as defined in Cite Them Right, online Guidance on using this style correctly is available at https://www.citethemrightonline.com/.

This information is also available in book form: Pears, R. and Shields, G. (2019) Cite them right: the essential reference guide. 11th edn. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Copies are available via the University library

Please see your programme handbook for information on the standard referencing style, presentational requirements, and process for submitting your work.

Key links

Access to Key links can be found via the Blackboard module shell.

Alternatively, via https://bucks-new.keylinks.org/new-ui/.  To access, use the Module code NAM4034 in the search bar.

Adjustments

If you are registered with the Disability and Inclusion Services, please contact your module leader to discuss how your reasonable adjustments will be applied to this assignment and any additional support available to you.

Confidentiality

You should maintain and respect confidentiality in relation to the protection of personal, technical and/or commercial information of a sensitive nature in your assessed work.

You are expected to take responsibility for maintaining and managing confidentiality issues in your work. You should maintain and respect confidentiality in relation to the protection of personal, technical, and/or commercial information of a sensitive nature in your assessed work, whatever the format.

For further information and guidance, please see the relevant section in your programme handbook. Additionally, please see the university’s Academic Confidentiality guidance.

Academic integrity

Academic integrity means taking responsibility for your own work and not acting in a way to give you an unfair advantage over another learner. This includes writing in your own words and acknowledging sources you have used. It also covers the appropriate use of Artificial Intelligence.

When you submit an assignment, you are making a declaration that it is your own work and that you have acknowledged the contribution of others and their ideas in its development (for example, by referencing them appropriately).

For further information, please see the following student facing guidance on the University website:

BNU Student Academic Integrity Guidance

BNU Artificial Intelligence Guidance for Students

There are also links to resources to support your understanding of Academic Integrity within your Blackboard module sites in the Assessment Information area.

Submission details

The assignment must be submitted Before 14:00 on the 15^th of December 2025, via Turnitin.

• This assignment should be submitted electronically. Please use the relevant Turnitin submission point in the ‘Submit your work’ area in your Blackboard module shell.
• Please ensure that your work has been saved in an appropriate file format. Turnitin will only accept the following file types: Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint, PostScript, PDF, HTML, RTF, OpenOffice (ODT), Hangul (HWP), Google Docs, or plain text. Your file must also contain at least 20 words of text, consist of fewer than 400 pages and be less than 40MB in size. Word is the most appropriate format for this work.
• You can submit your work as many times as you like before the submission date. If you do submit your work more than once, your earlier submission will be replaced by the most recent version.
• Once you have submitted your work, you will receive a digital receipt as proof of submission, which will be sent to your forwarded e-mail address (provided you have set this up). Please keep this receipt for future reference, along with the original electronic copy of your assignment.
• You are reminded of the University’s regulations on academic integrity, which can be viewed on the University website: https://www.bucks.ac.uk/current-students/registry-helpdesk-and-academic/advice/academic-integrity-and-misconduct.
•    In submitting your assignment, you are acknowledging that you have read and understood these regulations.
• Please also note that work that is submitted up to 10 working days beyond the submission date will be considered a late submission. Late submissions will be marked, and the actual mark recorded will be capped at the pass mark (typically 40%), provided that the work is of a passing standard. Work submitted after these 10 days will not be marked and will be treated as a non-submission.Students who receive a mark of less than 40% in their first submission attempt can revise their work and resubmit using the In-Year Retrieval Attempt (IYRA) before their work is presented to the assessment board. The IYRA resubmission deadline is set for 15 working days after the release of the marks and feedback from the original submission. You can view the details of IYRA on the University Website: In Year Retrieval | Buckinghamshire New University

 Resubmission opportunity

• Your mark for this coursework will be confirmed by the Assessment Board. If you are referred, you will be given a date by the Assessment Board to resubmit your work. This will be your referral attempt.

Please note: If resubmitting, you are recommended to seek referral support from the module team.

Assessment Criteria Level 0 to Level 6

Categorical Mark and Grade	0,1,10,20, (F)	32,35,38% (E)	42,45,48% (D)	52,55,58% (C)	62,65,68% (B)	72, 75,78% (A)	82, 85, 88, 92, 95, 98, 100% (A+)
Pass status	Fail Learning Outcomes have not been met	Marginal Fail Learning Outcomes have not been met	Pass – Satisfactory Learning Outcomes have been met	Pass – Good Learning Outcomes have been exceeded	Pass – Very Good Learning Outcomes have been exceeded	Pass – Excellent Learning Outcomes have been exceeded	Pass – Outstanding Learning Outcomes have been exceeded
LO3. This should include evidence of: Implementation of the nursing process. Through the use of the care plan template. Integration of the activities of daily living.  Demonstrate person-centred care, considering social aspects of care.	Work demonstrates a limited and/or substantially inaccurate or no understanding of: the nursing process, Activities of Daily Living and person centred care.	Work demonstrates an insufficient understanding of: the nursing process, Activities of Daily Living and person centred care.	Work demonstrates a basic understanding and application of: the nursing process, Activities of Daily Living and person centred care.	Work demonstrates a clear understanding and application of the nursing process and Activities of Daily Living and the ability to use these frameworks to inform care.	Work demonstrates a detailed understanding and application of the nursing process and Activities of Daily Living, and the ability to use these frameworks to inform patient centred care.	Work demonstrates a detailed, comprehensive understanding and application of the nursing process and Activities of Daily Living and the application of these frameworks to formulate patient centred care.	Work demonstrates a detailed, comprehensive understanding and thorough application of the nursing process and Activities of Daily Living. The ability to methodically formulate comprehensive, holistic care in a patient centred manner is present.
LO2, LO4, LO5 This should include evidence of:  Identification of patient needs. Scenario analysis has identified patient requirements both objective and subjective. Application of safe evidence-based nursing interventions such as NEWS2/PEWS, BMI and MUST.  Consideration of safety principles, such as infection control, consent, and field-relevant safety interventions. Justification for your chosen intervention supported by discussion.	Work demonstrates a limited or inability to identify care needs. Interventions applied are Inappropriate or there are omissions of most essential interventions. Safety principles are omitted or inappropriate. Interventions are not justified or discussed.	Work demonstrates an insufficient ability to identify care needs. Interventions applied are mostly appropriate for the patient. Omits one or two essential interventions. Safety principles have been considered. Interventions have been insufficiently justified or discussed.	Work demonstrates the ability to determine significant care needs. Interventions applied are appropriate for the patient. Omits one or two essential interventions. Safety principles have been considered and discussed to a satisfactory level. Interventions have been justified or discussed to a satisfactory level.	Work demonstrates the ability to determine all care needs. Interventions applied are appropriate for the patient. Safety principles have been clearly identified, justified and discussed to a good level. Interventions have been justified and discussed to a good level.	Work demonstrates the ability to determine all care needs. Interventions applied are appropriate for the patient and executed to a very good level.   Safety principles have been clearly identified, justified and discussed to a very good level. Interventions have been discussed and justified to a very good level.	Work demonstrates the ability to determine all care needs. Interventions applied are appropriate for the patient and executed to an excellent level. Safety principles have been clearly identified, justified and discussed to an excellent level. Interventions have been discussed and justified to an excellent