Assessment and Care Planning
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NUR11121
)
This module focuses on Platform 3 of the NMC Future Nurse Standards (2018), which covers Assessment and Care Planning. The following outcomes from this platform are addressed [3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.7, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, 3.13, 3.14, 3.15 and 3.16]. In addition outcomes from Platforms 1 [1.14], 4 [4.1] and 7 [7.9] are addressed alongside Annexe A [1.12, 4.2.6, 4.2.6.3] which focuses on communication and relationship management skills.
In this module you will critically evaluate the role of the nurse in enabling evidence informed person-centred assessment and care, with a view to executing best practice in person-centred assessment and care planning in contemporary nursing. You will begin by exploring and critically analysing the overarching concept of ‘person’ from the perspective of ‘being human’, both physically and mentally. Through engagement with, and critical analysis of the principles and theories informing equality, diversity and inclusion [LO1], human physiology and pathophysiology [LO2], you will gain an in-depth understanding of human health and ill-health all viewed through a lens of complexity, diversity and choice. Through critically engaging with a wide variety of evidence, you will gain an extensive and detailed knowledge about the importance of working in partnership with the individual to enable high-quality person-centred care [LO1-2].
Key evidence is drawn on from the theories of person-centeredness. You will be encouraged to critically analyse and evaluate the validity of this theoretical framework as a foundation for contemporary care [LO3]. This will in turn inform your knowledge of person-centred assessment and care planning. You will explore and critique evidence informing assessment and care planning approaches in nursing, you will then use this knowledge and critique to select valid and reliable person-centred assessment and care planning tools. You will be facilitated to critically evaluate a range of approaches in order to determine the most reliable approach(s) for individuals [LO4].
The module will enable you to develop critical and applied skills in assessment and care planning while working in partnership with individuals to tailor care to suit a range of health conditions. This outcome will be underpinned by the knowledge and application of physiology and pathophysiology, critical evaluation of theories informing the concept of person-centred care and evidence-informed practice. This module has been set up to support the development and enhancement of communities of learning in line with a programme focused approach.
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Co-ordinating Care
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NUR11125
)
This module focuses on Co-ordinating Care, Platform 7 of the NMC Future Nurse Standards (2018). The following outcomes from this platform areaddressed [7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 7.10, 7.11 and 7.12]. This module will give you the opportunity to further review, critique and consolidate your knowledge in relation to the overarching concepts of evidence informed practice and care. Key components such as, local/national/international health legislation, health policy, economics, and co-productive care delivery, will be further defined, conceptualised and critically evaluated, with a view to developing and sharing original and creative responses to strategic evidence informed and strengths-based service provision as both a leader and a change agent.In this module you will be offered a choice as to how you design and execute your dissertation project. You may choose to formulate a research study or conduct a literature review; alternatively present a business case or a quality enhancement initiative. Guidance on how to plan and prepare your chosen approach will be facilitated throughout the module. The module Moodle site will contain information on getting started; literature searching, critiquing and managing references, and how to present and construct your final summative submission.Your dissertation project must critically reflect on current evidence and practice to inform the validity and potential impact of your proposed practice development or enhancement initiative.
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Health in a Social and Geographical Context
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NUR11120
)
This module predominately addresses outcomes within Platform 2 of the NMC Future Nurse Standards (2018); Promoting Health and Preventing Ill Health. The following outcomes are addresses [2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.11 and 2.12]. In addition, it addresses outcomes in Platform 5 - Leading and Managing Nursing Care and Working in Teams [5.1] and Platform 7 - Co-ordinating Care [7.2, 7.3] as well as Annexe B - Communication and relationship management skills [2.1, 2.2, 2.8].
The module focuses on the interaction of individual and society to inform understanding of people’s experience of physical and mental health and illness and of utilising health and social care provision.
Key theories are drawn on from the social sciences, and specifically from social epidemiology. You will be encouraged to critique and review these theories with a view to determining their validity, you will do this using both peer reviewed literature and contemporary events. Theories will be used as a basis for critical thinking about the role of the nursing profession in identifying meaningful evidence informed opportunities to address wider societal problems [LO1].
A critical view of population health strategies will be taken drawing on evidence as to their effectiveness. Doing so will require you to understand the theory lying behind approaches such as the sensitivity and specificity of screening [LO2, LO3]. This learning will be done with a view to you developing detailed critical knowledge that enables you to consider issues such as accessibility, and demonstrate confidence in communicating complex ideas in lay terms.
The module will encourage you to develop a critical understanding as to the relevance of the theories to themselves and their practice drawing from the social sciences of critical work on structure and agency. Practical ways in which nurses and the nursing profession can make a difference, including screening (for example for depression, problematic alcohol use, cancer, falls risk and so forth), vaccination, education, inter-professional work (for example drawing on the third sector), and advocacy of individuals and communities [LO3]. This linking of theory to practice will be especially encouraged through the production of an editorial advocating for an intervention that has implications for improving population health [LO1-3]. This module has been set up to support the development and enhancement of communities of learning in line with a programme focused approach.
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Improving Safety and Quality of Care
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NUR11124
)
This module focuses on Platform 6 of the NMC Future Nurse Standards (2018), whichcovers Improving safety and quality of care. The following outcomes from this platform areaddressed [6.4, 6.7, 6.6, 6.9]. In additionoutcomes from Platforms 1 [1.8], 5 [5.7] and 7 [7.7 and 7.11] are addressed.This module will provide you with the opportunity to develop a critical understanding of the relationship between risk management and patient safety. You will be facilitated to identify, critique, evaluate and apply underpinning theories, principles and approaches to risk management and patient safety, at a local, national and international level. The perpetual, worldwide emphasis on quality enhancement, hazard management and the delivery of safe care is increasingly recognised as multifactorial and complex. It involves predicting human behaviour, which in turn involves the study of behavioural science such as rationality and reliability theory. To assist you to identify and critically appraise these factors, the module will include the following five units:(1) Introduction to Potential Hazards and Patient Safety - this unit will invite you to explore and critique; the history of risk and patient safety, definitions of risk, safety and quality and relationships between risk, safety and quality improvement [LO 1]. (2) Principles of Risk Management and Patient Safety - will enable you to formulate and extensive, detailed and critical understanding of a systems approach to managing risk and patient safety, while developing a critical understanding of concepts in relation to systems reliability and the impact of cultural influences on risk and patient safety [LO 1-2]. (3) Human Factors and Patient Safety - this unit critically explores human factors science and its impact on safety, and evidence informed approaches to team based working as a solution [LO 2-4]. (4) Approaches to Quality Enhancement - this unit will enable critical appraisal of national and international patient safety programmes and local systems for managing risk and patient safety. You will critically explore tools and techniques for reducing risk and enhancing patient safety, and be expected to demonstrate understanding about the importance of communication with external partners in relation to quality enhancement approaches [LO 4-5]. This module has been set up to support the development and enhancement of communities of learning in line with a programme focused approach.
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Providing and Evaluating Care
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NUR11122
)
This module focuses on Platform 4 of the NMC Future Nurse Standards (2018), whichcovers Providing and Evaluating Care. The following outcomes from this platform areaddressed [4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8, 4.9, 4.10, 4.11, 4.14, 4.15, 4.16 and 4.17]. Inaddition outcomes from Platforms 6 [6.8] and 7 [7.5, 7.6] are addressed alongsideAnnexe A [3.4, 3.5, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9 and 2.1] which focuses on communication and relationshipmanagement skills. At the start of the module, you will be presented with a range of case studies developed by experts by experience (service users carers), each of which will give rudimentary details about a person and their condition. The conditions selected will be be drawn from those listed in Annexe A 2.1 (NMC Standards for Proficiency, 2018) and include both primarily physical and mental health conditions [LO 1-2]. You will be asked to ‘sign up’ to a case study, which you will follow for the duration of the module and consequently address in your summative assessment. Each week will focus on core concepts (e.g. pain, nutrition, self-care, wound care, drug therapy, family etc.) * [LO 1-3]. You will critically engage with the evidence underpinning these concepts, then apply this to your chosen case for evaluation and discussion in tutorials [LO 3-4]. You will be given the opportunity to critically engage with and synthesise the wider literature to build a more personalised, field specific, critical and evidence-informed plan of care which will form your summative assessment [LO 1-4].Importantly, this module will enable you to conceptualise the links between physical and mental wellbeing [LO 1-3]. The weekly tutorials are designed to let you share your learning (and learn from others), and so offer healthy challenge and debate to the work of others. The weekly online work contributes directly to the summative assessment, aiding engagement. This module has been set up to support the development and enhancement of communities of learning in line with a programme focused approach.
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Theory and Practice 1 (TAP 1) - Accountable Professional
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NUR11119
)
The aim of this module is to help you to develop as an accountable professional nurse. The module will include theoretical study, practice learning and simulation of nursing procedures aligned to NMC Future Nurse: Standards of proficiency for registered nurses (2018). The module content addresses NMC outcomes drawn from Platform 1 - Being an Accountable Professional [1.1, 1.11, 1.12, 1.13, 1.16, 1.15, 1.17, 1.18, 1.19, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.9, 1.10], Annexe A - Communication and Relationship Management Skills and Annexe B - Nursing Procedures. In addition, outcomes relating to communication, professionalism and evidence informed practice from Platforms 2 - 7 are also addressed. Platform 2 [2.9, 2.10], Platform 3 [3.6, 3.8, 3.9], Platform 4 [4.2, 4.3, 4.12, 4.13], Platform 5 [5.11], Platform 6 [6.11] and Platform 7 [7.4, 7.13].This module spans all three trimesters within the first year of the MSc Nursing (Pre-registration) programme. Each trimester you will undertake one Practice Learning Experience (PLE); trimester 1 - PLE 1, trimester 2 - PLE 2, and trimester 3 - PLE 3. Each PLE in year 1 will equate to 3 days per week. Practice learning will be integrated with self-directed online theoretical learning for which you are given two days per week. Theoretical and practice learning is complemented by online group tutorials and critical reflection sessions. At the end of each trimester Touch Point weeks will enable further interaction with your peers and be a forum for a range of activities such as, listening to keynote speakers, accessing conferences, attending research seminars, collaboration with other inter-professional and cross institutional Masters students, and taking part in voluntary work and other career development activities. In order to prepare you for your first practice learning experience (PLE), you will undertake a period of theoretical and simulated skills learning at the beginning of the module, including mandatory skills - cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR), manual handling (MH) and prevention and management of violence and aggression (PMVA).Theoretical input focuses on the introduction of three essential core concepts - professionalism [LO 1, LO 4], communication [LO 2, LO 5], evidence informed practice [LO 1 - 5]. Module concepts will be presented within online units of study to enable exploration and analysis of key nursing knowledge and procedures [e.g. types of communication, motivational interviewing, breaking bad news etc]. Further context is added through the identification and critical examination of the complexity within the socio-political and economic dimensions of health and social care and evidence underpinning self-leadership, professional relationships and co-production within contemporary nursing practice. Concepts focused on in the module are relevant to all fields of nursing practice and scenarios used to enable your learning will address content relevant to mental health, adult health, learning disability and child health nursing. This shared approach to learning will prepare you to meet the person-centred and holistic care needs of the people you encounter in practice, who may have a range of mental, physical and behavioural health challenges and be at any stage in their life. This approach also signposts you towards field specific knowledge which is further facilitated through completion of the evidence informed online activities, participating in tutorials and simulation, working in practice and completing the module assessments (theory and practice). Skills development will also be woven into the Moodle platform throughout the module to provide you with a seamless presentation of evidence based theoretical and procedural concepts. Numeracy, literacy and digital technology within the context of health and social care practice will be explored through understanding and working with service users, health and social care colleagues to support medicines management and monitoring health. As your conceptualisation of 'being an accountable professional' grows, you will be encouraged to critically reflect upon and analyse any previous assumptions and understandings with a view to identifying your new learning. Importantly, your applied understanding of nursing within an integrated health and social care context should enable you to identify, conceptualise and develop creative responses to situations encountered in practice. Through engagement with and critical analysis of both key and wider literature, you will build a personalised, field specific and evidence-informed understanding of the module learning outcomes; these will then be critically examine and reflected upon in your formative and summative assessments. Completion of this module will enhance your critical understanding, analysis and evaluation of communication, professionalism and evidence informed practice both broadly and in relation to your chosen field of nursing practice (Adult Health or Mental Health).
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Theory and Practice 2 (TAP 2) - Leading and Managing Nursing Care and Working in Teams
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NUR11123
)
This is the second of your integrated theory and practice modules. The aim of this module is to help you further develop leadership and management skills as a professional nurse. The module will include theoretical study, practice learning and simulation of nursing procedures aligned to NMC Future Nurse: Standards of proficiency for registered nurses (2018). The module content focuses on leadership, teamwork and management and therefore addresses NMC outcomes drawn from Platform 4 – Providing and evaluating care [4.18], Platform 5 – Leading and managing nursing care and working in teams [5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.8, 5.9 and 5.10], Platform 6 – Improving safety and quality of care [6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.5, 6.10 and 6.12] and Platform 7 – Co-ordinating care [7.1, 7.10 and 7.12]. Further outcomes in relation to Annexe A - Communication and Relationship Management Skills and Annexe B - Nursing Procedures are also addressed.
This module spans all three trimesters within the second year of the MSc Nursing (Pre-registration) programme. Each trimester you will undertake one Practice Learning Experience (PLE); trimester 1 - PLE 4, trimester 2 - PLE 5, and trimester 3 - PLE 6. Each PLE in trimester 1 and 2 of year two will equate to 4 days per week in practice and one day in theory. During PLE 6 you will be in practice for the equivalent of 5 days per week. Practice learning will be integrated with self-directed online theoretical learning. Theoretical and practice learning is complemented by online group tutorials and critical reflection sessions. At the end of each trimester Touch Point weeks will enable further interaction with your peers and be a forum for a range of activities such as, listening to keynote speakers, accessing conferences, attending research seminars, collaboration with other inter-professional and cross institutional Masters students, and taking part in voluntary work and other career development activities. During the module you will undertake theoretical and simulated skills learning, including mandatory skills - cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR), manual handling (MH) and prevention and management of violence and Module Content aggression (PMVA). Theoretical input focuses on core concepts - professionalism [LO 1] leadership within professional practice, [LO 2] strengths-based approaches to teamwork, [LO 3] evidence-based approaches to contemporary nursing management, [LO 4] integration of health and social care and [LO 5] self-leadership, co-production in nursing.
During each trimester of the module you will undertake one Practice Learning Experience (PLE) (equating to 4 days per week in trimester one and two, and 5 days per week in trimester 3). This will be integrated with self-directed online learning activities complemented by group tutorials (theoretical input will equate to 1 day per week in trimester one and two). In addition to this, you will participate in critical professional reflection facilitated by a field specific programme tutor.
Module concepts will be presented within online units of study to enable exploration and analysis of key nursing knowledge and procedures. The key concepts explored in this module are, professionalism [LO 1] leadership within professional practice, [LO 2] strengths-based approaches to team work, [LO 3] evidence-based approaches to contemporary nursing management, [LO 4] integration of health and social care and [LO 5] self-leadership, co-production in nursing.
Module concepts will be presented within online units of study to enable exploration and analysis of key nursing knowledge and procedures [e.g. dealing with conflict, negotiation strategies and escalation procedures]. Further context is added through the identification and critical examination of evidence informing management, teamworking and theories underpinning leadership including, self-leadership, professional relationships and co-production within contemporary nursing practice. Concepts focused on in the module are relevant to all fields of nursing practice, and scenarios used to enable your learning will address content relevant to mental health, adult health, learning disability and child health nursing. This shared approach to learning will prepare you to meet the person-centred and holistic care needs of the people you encounter in practice, who may have a range of mental, physical and behavioural health challenges and be at any stage in their life. This approach also signposts you towards field specific knowledge which is further facilitated through completion of the evidence informed online activities, participating in tutorials and simulation, working in practice and completing the module assessments (theory and practice). Skills development will also be woven into the Moodle platform throughout the module to provide you with a seamless presentation of evidence based theoretical and procedural concepts. Numeracy, literacy and digital technology within the context of health and social care practice will be explored through understanding and working with service users, health and social care colleagues to support medicines management and monitoring health. As your conceptualisation of 'being an accountable professional' grows, you will be encouraged to critically reflect upon and analyse any previous assumptions and understandings with a view to identifying your new learning. Importantly, your applied understanding of nursing within an integrated health and social care context should enable you to identify, conceptualise and develop creative responses to situations encountered in practice. Through engagement with and critical analysis of both key and wider literature, you will build a personalised, field specific and evidence-informed understanding of the module learning outcomes; these will then be critically examine and reflected upon in your formative and summative assessments. Completion of this module will enhance your critical understanding, analysis and evaluation of communication, professionalism and evidence informed practice both broadly and in relation to your chosen field of nursing practice (Adult Health or Mental Health).
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* These are indicative only and reflect the course structure in the current academic year. Some changes may occur between now and the time that you study.