RCVS assignment

Re: RCVS assignment

Jenny Cook RVN — Sat, 28 May 2011 17:50:05 GMT

For those of you doing the SAVN assignments and need help with nursing care plans, Check out May and June 2011 copies of the VNJ. Article of what care plans are and how they work and how to integrate it in to the patients care. etc. Im finding it very useful.

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NJ_VN — Sun, 22 May 2011 19:32:22 GMT

Hi, Ive not done an RCVS assignment, but for the degree everything has to be written in third person, eg "The cat was restrained" not "I restrained the cat". One way we keep our word counts down is by putting things into tables/graphs ect, so if you are discussing the equipment you used just say "Equipment as shown in figure 1" and then do a textbox filled with the equipment, anything in tables/graphs wont count towards the word count (For the degree, it would be worth checking the brief to see if yours is the same, cause 1000 words is a really difficult limit!!)

Hope that helps and good luck :)

Nikki

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shelly jefferies — Sun, 22 May 2011 19:31:36 GMT

I sympathise with you all my student has handed in her assignmentsto college, she spent ages writing them, referencing, doing appendices. I read them and made a few suggestions. Her whole group had them returned 2 weeks ago and told of modification they needed to do or things missing before they went for official marking. This put a dampner on the students, they all worked hard and have full time jobs as well as college and my student also has a second job. The explanation from college also seemed a bit bizarre "cases returned you can modify as suggested, you do not have to but RCVS may recommend the changes. If they do and send them back for changing you can resubmit them and the highest marks you can then get on them is a pass........" well as far as my student is concerned (and understandably so) she would be happy with a pass and would rather take the risk and spend more time revising.

Don't we all just love nurse training!!!

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jodieandrews — Sun, 22 May 2011 16:24:07 GMT

Well done Eira! I'm still going but deadline is on weds so need to hurry up and finish. Still not sure i'm writing it correctly, but am just hoping it passes! Its all a bit overwhelming at the moment but taking it one deadline at a time. Exams next-bring on the revision books! xx

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Eira Davies — Sat, 21 May 2011 18:02:04 GMT

Iv just finished writing this essay and im well chuffed that i got within the 5000 word limit with my 4999 word count :-D

How are you getting on? Have you found that the Royal College have been no help what so ever and then changing their minds on silly things?

Eira xx

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Alison Rigley — Tue, 03 May 2011 23:33:46 GMT

Hey, i've finished that one thank god! I wrote it as 'this is done because blah blah blah, never did i say i did this. I was a little less formal in the discussion section. i structured it with headings from each section then filled in the gaps.

Initial assessment

Surgical treatment

Anaesthetic

Equipment needed:

Patient handover

Medical treatment

Nursing needs and post operative recovery

Potential problems

Discharge – see attached discharge form

Critical reflection

Discussion

Nursing plan

hope this helps. :-)

Re: RCVS assignment

Eira Davies — Tue, 03 May 2011 21:37:33 GMT

Bring back the portfolio any day! I hate the NPL, just an hours worth of 'logging' and i loose the will to live with it! If im completely honest, id much rather be writing case logs as and when they come in, rather than to be frantically looking for cases of different natures by a deadline! With college, NPL, assignments and a full time job, this new Diploma course has had many of us in tears during class :'(

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Jenny Cook RVN — Tue, 03 May 2011 21:14:24 GMT

ive been given 2 assignments to gather caselogs for over the summer and we will start them properly in september... or sooner if we prefer. The 2 i have are SAVN14 Principles of peri-operative VN support for small animals (5000 words), and SAVN16 Principles of veterinary nurse support for small animal patients (3,500 words)... SAVN14, I have to find 4 extensive cases to include a minor, abdominal and orthopaedic peri-op care and both planned and emergency surgery!! SAVN16, i have to find 3 case studies covering nursing support of infective case, chronic illness and terminal illness. WOW, ALL THIS ON TOP OF OUR NPL AND FULL TIME JOB!!!

Thought the RCVS scrapped the portfolio, looks like they brought it back for the students to do extensive case studies on!!! I hate it!!!!

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jodieandrews — Mon, 02 May 2011 19:26:09 GMT

Thanks everyone, nice to know I'm not the only one stuck on this! As far as I know, you can use as many appendices as you want, so I plan to write as many explaining how I did stuff as necessary. I have tried to write them without saying 'i did this and i did that' as examples of case studies I have seen don't read that way. I will def use references from books when explaining why I've done something a certain way-I wondered where I was gonna fit those in! Still gonna be way difficult to get it down to 1000 words each! Good luck to all those doing this assignment ....and just to let you know, the law and ethics assignment looks even better

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Nick Shackleton — Mon, 02 May 2011 11:47:12 GMT

Am sure you'll be alright to put any SOPs you use within practice in an appendix which will bring your word count down. if it is case reports then you really need to back up why you did certain things with references from books, journals etc.

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Eira Davies — Sun, 01 May 2011 23:29:15 GMT

Im also in the middle of writing this assignment and posted not so long ago asking for help. Getting each case log to meet 1000 words is hard, and im still stuck on how to structure the entire assignment :-( Has anyone else used other appendicies along with nursing care plans etc, such as for calculating meds etc? If additional appendicies were allowed it would make the whole assignment so much easyer and less bitty :-) xx

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Susan Jackson — Sun, 01 May 2011 20:00:28 GMT

I would also write about why you did what you did. If it's essay work you might have to reference wher you got your information from.

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Gemma Harrison — Sun, 01 May 2011 18:24:43 GMT

As far as I know, you need to write these up like the old portfolio caselogs. This does mean, unfortunately, that you have to write them like you are telling a complete stranger (non veterinary) how you did everything. It might help to look at a couple of caselog examples to at least give you some idea of the type of info needed.

Once you get into it you will be fine.

Good luck

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Emily M — Sun, 01 May 2011 18:05:58 GMT

I also have a very similar assignment that i am currently working on but my word limit is 4000, are you sure yours is only 1000 as surely we all need to do the same?

Remember to include nursing care plans as appendices - these shouldn't count against your word limit and also you shouldn't write "i did this" in an assignment as writing in first person is generally frowned upon.

Hope that helped...?