Teaching Responsibility

LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:

Nursing and Advanced Practice

Learning Methods

Lecture

Workshop

Module Offerings

5104NAPNA-MAR-CTY

5104NAPNA-SEP-CTY

Aims

This module will enable you to develop your understanding of the role of a Nursing Associate within end-of-life care, providing you with an overview of the legal frameworks. You will explore the challenges and complexities of providing safe and effective nursing care for patients with long term conditions and complex co-morbidities and care needs.

Learning Outcomes

1.
Explore your understanding of the challenges of providing safe nursing care for people with complex co-morbidities and complex care needs.
2.
Demonstrate your understanding of holistic needs and how to prioritise complex care across a range of integrated care settings.
3.
Demonstrate how you would apply your knowledge to advanced planning and end of life decision making.
4.
Discuss the key elements and considerations for the delivery of safe and compassionate end of life care.

Module Content

Outline Syllabus:
Indicative Content:

Investigations, interpretation and planning (NMC, 3.11)

End of Life – care and legal frameworks (NMC, 3.13, 3.14)

Co-morbidities – care planning and complex care  (NMC, 3.19, 6.2)

Complexities of providing mental, cognitive, behavioural and physical care services  (NMC, 6.3)

(mapped to NMC standards of proficiency for registered nursing associates)
Module Overview:
This module will enable you to develop your understanding of the role of a Nursing Associate within end-of-life care, providing you with an overview of the legal frameworks. You will explore the challenges and complexities of providing safe and effective nursing care for patients with complex co-morbidities and care needs.
Additional Information:
Knowledge, Skills and Behaviours (IfATE) 

K21: Understand co-morbidities and the demands of meeting people’s holistic needs when prioritising care 

K25: Know how to deliver sensitive and compassionate end of life care to support people to plan for their end of life 

K37: Understand the challenges of providing safe nursing care for people with complex co-morbidities and complex care needs 

K38: Understand the complexities of providing mental, cognitive, behavioural and physical care needs across a wide range of integrated care settings 

 

S29: Give information and support to people who are dying, their families and the bereaved and provide care to the deceased 

S31: Act in line with any end-of-life decisions and orders, organ and tissue donation protocols, infection protocols, advanced planning decisions, living wills and lasting powers of attorney for health 

 

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

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

Assessments

Test