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School:
School of Human and Health Sciences
Credit Rating:
15
Level (including FHEQ):
M (FHEQ Level 7)
Graded or Non Graded:
Graded
Version Valid From:
2021-01-01
Module Leader:
Kennedy Brown
Version Number
2023.03
Learning Methods
Guided Independent Study
Seminar
Practical Classes and Demonstrations
Lecture
Professional Body Requirements
Nursing and Midwifery Council
Synopsis
This module builds on knowledge and skills developed in stage one. You will expand your range of assessment skills and apply them to more complex mental health care encounters. Using your knowledge, you will recognise deterioration and begin to identify appropriate interventions to meet the care needs for people with … For more content click the Read More button below.
Learning Strategy
Lectures and practical classes and demonstrations (simulation) will be supported by an approach whereby students complete online and face to face learning activities, directed reading exercises and a variety of VLE activities. Within this, a transformative learning approach will enable students to reflect on their knowledge and skills and apply … For more content click the Read More button below.
Outline Syllabus
Being an accountable professional
• Effective person-centred communication with people and their relatives and within teams • Promoting cultural diversity in healthcare provision. • Law and policy in relation to health and social care • Procedural skills; undertaking and interpreting the following skills; vital signs and early warning scores, phlebotomy, … For more content click the Read More button below.
• Optimising opportunities for health promotion and health protection • Promoting self-care and family involvement in care, including motivation and capacity for health behaviour change Assessing needs and planning care and providing and evaluating care
• Pathophysiology and associated presentation of signs and symptoms • Systematic and whole system assessment • Recognition and management of complex behavioural and physical health changes in people across the lifespan and across the range of settings • Therapeutic interventions for mental illness • Managing cognitive distress • Identifying and managing common mental health related symptoms • Evaluating care interventions and adjusting accordingly • Recognising vulnerable groups • Enabling people to live inclusive and fulfilling lives • Dementia care • Consent related to capacity and complex care situations • Providing effective, evidence-based care which meets service users’ individual needs • Identifying and managing safeguarding situations • Breaking bad news • Care of people with life limiting conditions • End of life care and care of bereaved relatives • Psychological diagnosis and presentation • Pharmacology and legal aspects of medicines management and administration. Introduction to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society competency framework. Medicines optimisation. Medicines calculations • Recognising drug errors and adverse reactions in direct patient care Leading and managing nursing care and working in teams
• Using digital technology to support care delivery/telemedicine. • Working with other professionals to optimise care management • Identifying and managing priorities of care for individuals and groups of people
Improving safety and quality of care
• Identifying and managing potential safety issues in direct patient care • Communicating risk related to direct patient care • Risk taking in direct mental health care (positive risk taking/risk assessment) Co-ordinating care
• Communicating care needs of individuals and groups across care settings • Care delivery to groups of people in a variety of settings • Safe transfer or discharge within and across services • Managing people with complex care needs and co-morbidities.
Formative Assessment
Assessment 1: Written draft
Assessment 2: Practical skills assessment
Summative Assessment
Assessment 1: Presentation
Assessment 2: In-Class Test
Assessment Criteria
The School generic grading criteria and the learning outcomes will apply.
The expectation is that text-based assessment tasks will be submitted via Turnitin®.
Identities of individuals and organisations should be anonymised and confidences respected. Consent should be obtained from individual service users for use of any of their personal health … For more content click the Read More button below.
My Reading
Reading List