Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities: (75 hours)
63 hours: key lectures
6 hours: workshops
6 hours: problem based learning

Guided Independent Study: (225 hours)
150 hours: identifying, obtaining and exploring materials relating to the content of the module and the assessment.
50 hours: preparation for interactive lectures
25 hours: preparation for problem based learning

The aim of the module is to apply the relevant nursing knowledge and skills necessary to enable the student to progress and work in a safe and increasingly confident way in adult nursing practice.

- Applying The Code: Standard of conduct, performance and ethics for nurses and midwives (NMC 2008) to adult nursing practice
- Legal and ethical frameworks for professional adult nursing practice (including/, record keeping and documentation, confidentiality, consent etc)
- Evidence based practice and national and local strategies related to the care of the adult patient
- Principles and practice of Person Centred Care ( including care with compassion, dignity, human rights and self determination)
- Recognising and resolving conflict
- Communication strategies to aid nursing care delivery including patient empowerment / overcoming communication difficulties
- Culture, religion, spiritual beliefs in the care of individuals and their families/carers
- Assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care delivered to people of all ages with varying health needs including pharmacology, anatomy and physiology, pathology, psychology and sociology
- Complex and coexisting needs of individuals and their families, in any setting including hospital, community and at home.
- Recognition, assessment and care for adults with sudden deterioration of condition including emergency care of the adult patient: ie In hospital life support, the deteriorating patient with neurological observations
- Pathophysiology of common diseases/ conditions encountered in adult nursing practice
- Management of patients with long term conditions such as diabetes, cancer, epilepsy, respiratory failure, renal failure, heart failure
- Self- care and self -management within the practice setting: teaching and empowering people with complex care needs: the expert patient and role of assistive technology
- Working with families and carers in adult nursing practice
- Managing end of life care including pain and it¿s assessment
- Role of the adult nurse in effective discharge planning
- Assessing and managing risk in adult care settings
- Adult specific clinical skills
- Medicines management
- Legal frameworks including prescribing, supply and storage
- Alternative routes for administering medicines
- Numeracy and the calculation of frequently encountered medications and fluids
- Side effects and adverse reactions
- Awareness of the involvement of carers in administration of medicines and Patient Group Directives
- Self awareness, reflection and clinical supervision
- Developing peers and others
- Placement preparation and evaluation

CLINICAL PRACTICE assessment weighted at 0% pass/refer/fail
(addressing LO's 2, 4 and 5)

1.5 HOUR EXAM weighted at 100% (addressing LO's 1, 3 and 4)

All elements of the assessment must be passed

Formative Assessment will include feedback through group discussions, mock exam, group and individual tutorial support and from mentors in clinical practice

Enrolled on BSc (Hons) Nursing Practice / Registered Nurse programme
Access to practice placements
Successful completion of progression point one

Bullocl,I., MACLEOD-CLARK, J. and RYCROFT-MALONE, J. (2012) Adult Nursing Practice: Using evidence in care Oxford Oxford University Press
CUTHBERT, S AND QUALINGTON J (2008) Health and Social Care Practice: Values for Care Practice, Devon, Reflect Press.
MCCANCE KI and HUETHER SE (2010) Pathophysiology: The biologic basis for disease in adults and children 6th Ed. New York: Mosby
MCSHERRY W, MCSHERRY R and WATSON R (Eds) (2012) Caring in nursing: principles, values and skills Oxford University Press

This module is designed to enable you to continue to build upon your clinical and theoretical knowledge and understanding of adult nursing practice which you have gained during the first year of your programme. You will be encouraged to apply this enhanced knowledge and understanding to your clinical practice as a second year student nurse. Through the introduction of real life-based scenarios you will be introduced to a range of adult health conditions, chronic and acute, which will enable you to study and explore anatomy and physiology, pathophysiology, pharmacology along with assessing the needs of individuals with complex and coexisting conditions and needs, the role of the legal and ethical frameworks, person centred care and the importance of empowering patients. The module aims to provide you with the knowledge, understanding and skills to progress and work in a safe and increasingly confident manner in the adult nursing practice setting.