Course Catalogue

Nursing and Advanced Practice

To examine strategies and approaches for service improvement in child nursing

Outline Syllabus:Developing and implementing a care plan Inter-agency working Safeguarding Risk assessment Collaborative working Health promotion in complex health Managing diverse needs Collaborative care/patient and carer role in care Discharge planning Managing the complex patient Clinical supervision Health and social care legislation Near misses, critical incidents and major incident Methodologies such as audits, surveys and service evaluations Risk management, route cause analysis, incident reporting and aversions Patient involvement, user advisory groups, PALS, friends and family tests, discharge planning, influence of patients e.g. culture, nature of illness and disability. Reflective practice

Module Overview:
This module enables you to examine strategies and approaches for service improvement in child nursing. You will develop an ability to:

• Analyse the concept of quality improvement for child patient care.
• Examine key strategies and methodologies in quality improvement.
• Reflect on patient involvement in the management of their care.
• Review methods associated with the dissemination of outputs from quality improvement initiatives.

Additional Information:In addition to the contact hours above there are 160 private study hours. 99 hours are guided, this includes online and assessment preparation. The 20 hours of lectures are delivered online via the current approved university platform. 61 hours are independent study Please note that workshop hours account for simulated theoretical learning, in accordance with NMC standard 3.4