Evidence Based Assessment

Choose one of the 4 documents indicted on the Moodle assessment page.

They are;

1.   
Health Building Note 00-01, General design guidance for healthcare buildings, Health Building Note 08-02, Dementia-friendly Health and Social Care Environments. Available on www.gov.uk/government/collections/health-building-notes-core-elements.

2.   
Infection prevention and control, NICE Quality standard. Available on www.nice.org.uk/guidance/qs61  

3.   
Obesity in children and young people: prevention and lifestyle weight management programmes. NICE Quality Standard. Available on  www.nice.org.uk/guidance/qs94

4.   
Smoking: stopping in pregnancy and after childbirth, NICE Public health Guideline. Available on www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ph26

Read through the document and consider the evidence they applied to gain an overview of the area. Consider what ‘gaps’ there may have been in their analysis. Within one of these ‘gaps’ identify a specific area of interest and research the evidence for that aspect. This becomes the critical discussion of your main essay. A suggested structure would be;

Part 1: an overview of the policy/guidelines/quality standard, identifying one area of particular interest and/or a ‘gap’…

Part 2: identifying research which can develop the knowledge of that GAP

Part 3: a critical appraisal and discussion of how evidence is used to construct policy guidelines and how they can be strengthened.

Once you have written your assignment: review

1.   
Referencing and ensure it meets LSBU requirements

2.   
Ensure all learning outcomes can be demonstrated in the assignment,.

3.   
Your work according to the marking guidelines – this assignment is  marked 6 generic rubric. The details of this can be found on Moodle in the Module Assessment Folder.