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School:
School of Human and Health Sciences
Credit Rating:
40
Level (including FHEQ):
H (FHEQ Level 6)
Graded or Non Graded:
Graded
Version Valid From:
2021-09-01
Module Leader:
Sally Arrey
Version Number
2024.01
Learning Methods
Guided Independent Study
Lecture
Seminar
Practical Classes and Demonstrations
Professional Body Requirements
Nursing and Midwifery Council
Synopsis
This module builds on the knowledge and skills developed in Year 1 and 2, enabling you to further develop your critical understanding of assessment skills to recognise and respond appropriately to the deteriorating patient. You’ll have the opportunity to expand your range of assessment skills and apply them under minimum … For more content click the Read More button below.
Learning Strategy
The module will utilise a range of guided independent study activities, comprising asynchronous materials to support online lectures and online seminars and on campus simulation sessions. Also, students will develop nursing skills and proficiencies through online/live practical classes (simulation). Within this, a transformative learning approach will enable students to reflect … For more content click the Read More button below.
Outline Syllabus
Being an accountable professional
• Effective communication with people with learning disabilities and their relatives requiring specialist and complex care, and with the teams involved in providing multi-disciplinary care• Enhanced approaches to communication in complex or acute care situations• Procedural skills; basic life support, advanced life support and advanced airway … For more content click the Read More button below.
Promoting health and preventing ill health
• Enabling and facilitating person involvement in decisions about their care• Critical understanding of altered pathophysiology and associated signs and symptoms of ill health in critical and complex conditions• Improving acute services for people with cognitive care needs
Assessing needs, planning, providing and evaluating care
• Altered physiology in people with profound learning disability• Systematic assessment, interpretation and management of people presenting with cognitive and physical health deterioration• Assessment, care and appropriate management of severe acute illnesses including cardiovascular and respiratory compromise (e.g. severe asthma, myocardial infarction, hypovolaemia and sepsis)• Recognising the need to deliver and manage basic and advanced life support care needs in both prehospital and hospital settings• Therapeutic interventions• Specialist care and services – e.g. assessment and treatment, behaviour support, end of life, forensic, epilepsy• Responding to mental or cognitive distress in adults – e.g. suicidal ideation and self-harm• Evaluating assessment and care interventions and adjusting accordingly• Coordinating safeguarding procedures• Working within the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Competency Framework, decision making in medicines management. Medical history taking. Compliance, concordance and adherence. The range of prescriptions that can be generated• Managing adverse drug reactions and drug errors in direct patient care• Drug calculations
Leading and managing nursing care and working in teams
• Working in and with teams to improve care delivery. Including multi-disciplinary teams in different settings and specialist teams such as the resuscitation team, pain care team and field specific safeguarding team. In mental health nursing, teams such as ECT, medication management teams and early intervention teams. In learning disability nursing, behaviour teams, epilepsy and forensic teams. In child nursing, children’s diabetic, epilepsy and respiratory care teams• Prioritising care in unexpected high dependency situations and high-volume care areas, ensuring effective skill mix for care delivery• Acting as a role model when delivering high quality nursing interventions
Improving safety and quality of care
• Ensuring the quality of care delivery across a service• Minimising and managing risk in care delivery for effective and safe care
Co-ordinating care
• Managing complex transfers between services and complex discharge planning and implementation• Safe and effective and person-centred care for people who have co-morbidities and complex care needs• Major incident management and consideration of specialist teams (for example trauma teams, outreach.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module students will
1.
Systematically and critically understand the signs and symptoms in relation to altered physiology of a person with a learning disability presenting with acute and complex cognitive care needs.
2.
Critically appraise and apply evidence-based principles that support safe and effective care and management of people with learning disabilities presenting with acute and complex care needs within and across organisations.
3.
Outline the legal requirements for medicines administration across a range of settings to meet the specific service needs.
4.
Critically, systematically and safely assess, respond and evaluate care and interventions for managing acute and complex care in unpredictable and complex situations.
5.
Safely calculate medicines for learning disability nursing.
Formative Assessment
Assessment 1: Practice exam/test
Assessment 2: Practical skills assessment
Summative Assessment
Assessment 1: In-Class Test
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.
Students will be required to pass both elements of assessment to gain credit of the module (NMC requirement).