Clarification for Assignment.

A Critical & reflective analysis of an experience of Mental Health Nursing decision making.  > Drawn from your own practice <

This essay offers an opportunity to identify a Complex Care Incident in practice and reflect on it at a significant levels.

You need to consider;

• Theory, Research & Policy
• Multiple perspectives… which must include;Service User and Carers perspective
• Identify a decision that was made from your own practice.

  This means something you were directly involved in or where you were an observer.

• This is the decision that was made.
• This is the process that was gone through.
• These are the various views/factors that were fused together to come to the decision.

 Include Users & Carers in the identification of the Multiple perspectives.

Identifying the competing demands of the decision making process

• Scrutinise the process of decision making.
• What was the context of the decision making process?

The focus needs to be the process of reaching a decision, NOT   the repercussion of the decision made.

Reflecting on tutorials, clarifying the issue to be focussed on… Considering, what is the Decision that was made that I will focus on.

Be aware, presenting such a complex decision where poor practice or Safeguarding / Whistleblowing may be required, as this will lead into a much longer complicated assignment.

A useful way to address this assignment would be to imagine that you are a qualified nurse and the CQC came to visit and asked why a certain decision was made as regards User care.