Teaching Responsibility

LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:

Nursing and Advanced Practice

Learning Methods

Lecture

Workshop

Module Offerings

4101NAPNA-MAR-CTY

4101NAPNA-SEP-CTY

Aims

This module enables you to understand, consider and demonstrate the professional principles that underpin your practice, specifically the NMC Code, your personal and others’ expectations as an ambassador for the role. It explores how you care for and manage yourself and the impact that has on your ability to undertake your nursing associate role. 

Learning Outcomes

1.
Demonstrate your understanding of the professional principles and standards and evidence base that underpin your practice.
2.
Identify and explain how personal factors might impact on professional practice.
3.
Discuss the importance of accurate record keeping and the timely and appropriate escalation of concerns.
4.
Describe how you demonstrate behaviours that underpin the conduct of an ambassador for your profession.

Module Content

Outline Syllabus:
Indicative content:

Professional standards and the Code of Conduct (NMC 1.1)

Duty of Candour (NMC 1.3)

Recognising vulnerability in self and others (NMC 1.5)

Resilience and emotional intelligence (NMC 1.8)

Role as ambassador (NMC 1.16)

Record keeping (NMC 1.14)

Professional responsibility for healthy lifestyle (NMC 1.6)

Escalation for help and advice (NMC 3.7)

Introduction to Evidence based practice (NMC 1.17)

(mapped to NMC Standards of Proficiency for registered Nursing Associates)
Module Overview:
This module will enable you to understand, consider and demonstrate the professional principles that underpin your practice, specifically the NMC Code, your personal and others’ expectations as an ambassador for the role.  The module will explore how you care for and manage yourself and the impact that has on your ability to undertake your nursing associate role. 
Additional Information:
Knowledge, Skills and Behaviours (IfATE) 

K1: Understand the Code: Professional standards of practice and behaviour for nurses, midwives and nursing associates (NMC, 2018), and how to fulfil all registration requirements 

K2: Understand the demands of professional practice and demonstrate how to recognise signs of vulnerability in themselves or their colleagues and the action required to minimise risks to health 

K3: Understand the professional responsibility to adopt a healthy lifestyle to maintain the level of personal fitness and well-being required to meet people’s needs for mental and physical care 

K5: Understand the meaning of resilience and emotional intelligence, and their influence on an individual’s ability to provide care 

K7: Understand the importance of courage and transparency and apply the Duty of Candour 

 

S1: Act in accordance with the Code: Professional standards of practice and behaviour for nurses, midwives and nursing associates (NMC, 2018), and fulfil all registration requirements 

S2: Keep complete, clear, accurate and timely records 

S6: Act as an ambassador for their profession and promote public confidence in health and care services 

S8: Recognise signs of vulnerability in self or colleagues and the action required to minimise risks to health 

 

B1: Treat people with dignity, respecting individual's diversity, beliefs, culture, needs, values, privacy and preferences 

B2: Show respect and empathy for those you work with, have the courage to challenge areas of concern and work to evidence based best practice 

B3: Be adaptable, reliable and consistent, show discretion, resilience and self-awareness

Assessments

Test