Teaching Responsibility

LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:

Nursing and Advanced Practice

Learning Methods

Lecture

Workshop

Module Offerings

5104NAPRNA-MAR-CTY

Aims

The aim if this module is to develop  an understanding of assessing, planning care and safe discharge  in adult nursing.  

Learning Outcomes

1.
Apply knowledge of commonly encountered conditions and routine investigations to assessing the needs of the individual.
2.
Analyse the importance of considering complexity and shared decision making in prioritizing and planning care in adult nursing.
3.
Consider the evidence base underpinning the planning and management of care delivery and quality of care in adult nursing.

Module Content

Outline Syllabus:
Research methods, research ethics and evidence base (NMC 1.7)

Assessment and care planning (NMC 3.3)

Investigations, interpretation and planning (NMC 3.11)

Co-morbidities and care planning (NMC 3.13)

Monitoring and assessing care plans (NMC 3.15)

Nursing procedures and managing devices - person centred care (NMC 4.12)

Safe discharge and transition (NMC 4.18)

Monitoring and reviewing care (NMC 5.7)
Module Overview:
This module will develop your understanding of assessing, monitoring and planning care in adult nursing. You will also explore  research methods and ethics and the application of an evidence-base to your practice. In this module the indicative content will specifically be applied within the context of Adult Nursing.
Additional Information:
Knowledge, Skills and Behaviours (IfATE)  

K6: Understand and apply relevant legal, regulatory and governance requirements, policies, and ethical frameworks, including any mandatory reporting duties, to all areas of practice, differentiating where appropriate between the devolved legislatures of the United Kingdom

K15: Apply knowledge of body systems and homeostasis, human anatomy and physiology, biology, genomics, pharmacology and social and behavioural sciences when undertaking full and accurate person-centred nursing assessments and developing appropriate care plans

K20: Understand co-morbidities and the demands of meeting people’s complex nursing and social care needs when prioritising care plans 

K42: Understand how the quality and effectiveness of nursing care can be evaluated in practice, work with people, their families, carers and colleagues to develop effective improvement strategies for quality and safety 

K47: Understand and recognise the need to respond to the challenges of providing safe, effective and person-centred nursing care for people who have co-morbidities and complex care needs 

K51: Understand the principles and processes involved in planning and facilitating the safe discharge and transition of people between caseloads, settings and services 

 

S22: Accurately process all information gathered during the assessment process to identify needs for individualised nursing care and develop person-centred evidence-based plans for nursing interventions with agreed goals 

S26: Undertake routine investigations, interpreting and sharing findings as appropriate 

S27: Interpret results from routine investigations, taking prompt action when required by implementing appropriate interventions, requesting additional investigations or escalating to others 

S29: Work in partnership with people, families and carers to continuously monitor, evaluate and reassess the effectiveness of all agreed nursing care plans and care, sharing decision making and readjusting agreed goals, documenting progress and decisions made 

S37: Manage commonly encountered devices and confidently carry out related nursing procedures to meet people’s needs for evidence based, person-centred care 

S40: Co-ordinate and undertake the processes and procedures involved in routine planning and management of safe discharge home or transfer of people between care settings 

Assessments

Test