Summative
Clinical Assessment of Practice Pass/refer/fail (LO5) 0%

Written Assignment (100%) Meets LO’s 1,2,3,4)

Both elements of the assessment must be successfully completed in order to pass the module.

Formative
Feedback from session lecturers
Group tutorials
Feedback from personal tutor
Feedback from practice mentor

The aim of this module is to explore the application of evidence base nursing knowledge, skills and professional, ethical and legal principles necessary to develop the fundamentals of Adult field nursing care, across the life span
• Application of the NMC Code, standards and advice including The Code: Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics, and Guidance for Students of Nursing and Midwifery. This will include professional behaviour, public protection and professional self-regulation
• Protection and safeguarding of vulnerable adults - legal frameworks and local policies
• Application of nursing law, and ethics to adult nursing
• Care delivery within a variety of health and social care settings and the home
• Contexts of adult nursing care, surgery, medical, recovery
• The fundamentals of applicable legislation
• Working in partnership with service users, carers, families, groups, communities and organisations
• An introduction to a range of communication skills.
• Introduction to nursing roles, models and contexts – recognition of the needs of all those who require care, including babies, children and young people, pregnant and postnatal women, people with mental health problems, people with physical disabilities, people with learning disabilities, older people, and people with long term problems such as cognitive impairment – EU Directives
• An introduction to frameworks of care, and approaches to providing nursing care e.g. nursing process and nursing models, benchmarks and standards, essential skills clusters, National Service Frameworks, NICE guidelines
• An introduction to the concepts of risk, risk assessment and management, to include factors affecting the safety of health and social care professionals, service users, carers and significant others, in hospital and home environments
• Person centred care that explores values based approaches, recovery and social inclusion, challenges inequalities, stigma and discrimination
• Self-awareness, reflection and clinical supervision
• Individual learning styles
• Developing reflective practice.
• Understanding roles and responsibilities of other health and social care professionals and working with them collaboratively.
• Placement preparation and evaluation.

Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities:- (60 hours)
25 hours key lectures
30 hours workshops, small group work
5 hours group tutorials / assessment preparation

Guided Independent Study: (240 hours)
120 hours guided independent learning / using blackboard : reading, preparation for classroom or practice activity
120 hours self directed reading and assessment preparation

BACH, S. and GRANT, A. (2015) Communication and Interpersonal Skills in Nursing. 3nd Ed. Exeter: Learning Matters Ltd.

DIMOND, B. (2015) Legal Aspects of Nursing. 7th Ed. Harlow: Pearson Education.

BROOKER, C. and NICOL, M. (2015) Alexander’s Nursing Practice. 4th Ed. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone.

McSHERRY, W., McSHERRY, R. and WATSON, R. (Eds.) (2012) Caring in nursing: Principles, values and skills. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Enrolled on the RN/BSc (Hons) Adult Nursing Practice.
Access to practice placements.

1. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the underlying concepts and principles that underpin adult nursing practice (Communiocation, Knowledge and Understanding)

2. Evaluate the appropriateness of different professional, legal and ethical approaches to problem solving using a systematic and values based approach (Problem solving)

3. Demonstrate an insight into the process and purpose of reflection, in order to develop self-awareness and individual professional practice (Reflection)

4. Demonstrate the ability to identify and act upon individual learning needs, relevant to theory and practice
(Learning)

5. Demonstrate the achievement of nursing outcomes in clinical practice according to NMC (2010) standards for pre- registration nursing for progression point one (Analysis, Application)