Essay
This assessment for the Understanding Professional Teams and Leadership module is a 2000 word essay with the following remit:
Part 1
Critically evaluate two leadership theories, and how they can influence patient/service user safety
Part 2
Critically evaluate how your chosen leadership theories in part 1 can impact either professional culture, or professional identity or human factors, and subsequently the efficacy of the interprofessional team.
Essay Guidance
Your essay should be structured in the following way:
Introduction (10%): giving brief overview of essay, importance of IP team working and patient/service user safety (approximately 200 words)
Identification of key concepts and theories (10%): identify, define, and describe chosen leadership theories and professional culture/identity/human factors (approximately 200 words)
Critical discussion (70%): of theories and concepts linked to patient/service user safety and efficacy of Interprofessional teams (approximately 1400 words, 800:600 split between leadership and culture/identity/human factors)
Conclusion (10%): concise summary of essay with any conclusions drawn from critical discussion (approximately 200 words)
The Learning outcomes (3 and 4) are:
- Critically evaluate the roles of leadership in inter-professional teams to ensure patient/service user safety
- Critically evaluate the influence of professional cultures on effective interprofessional team working
Your essay should be no more that 10% of the allocated word count, therefore an absolute maximum of 2200 word. To go over this maximum will result in a deduction of marks.