CLINICAL PRACTICE weighted at 0%. EXAMINATION - UNSEEN IN EXAMINATION CONDITIONS weighted at 100%.

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

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 its 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

Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities: (25 hours)
14 hours key lectures
4 hours PBL
2 hour tutorial – assessment preparation
5 hours on-line interaction discussion

Guided Independent Study: (275 hours)
175 hours directed learning / using blackboard : directed reading, directed preparation for classroom, on-line submission/discussion or practice activity
100 hours self-directed reading and assessment preparation

BULLOCK, I., MACLEOD-CLARK, J. and RYCROFT-MALONE, J. (2012) Adult Nursing Practice: Using evidence in care. 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

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

1. Demonstrate a sound knowledge base and critical understanding of principal theoretical concepts applied to developing values based adult nursing practice (Analysis, Enquiry, Knowledge and Understanding)

2. Demonstrate knowledge and a critical understanding of the caring role and professional values needed within adult nursing practice (Application, Knowledge and Understanding, Problem Solving)

3. Demonstrate effective communication strategies in applying the principles of care, compassion and dignity within adult nursing practice (Application, Communication, Knowledge and Understanding, Reflection)

4. Accurately apply knowledge of patho-physiology, therapeutics, pharmacology, nursing concepts, problems and problem solutions to the supervised assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of service user centred nursing care (Application, Knowledge and Understanding, Problem Solving)

5. Demonstrate achievement of the clinical practice outcomes according to NMC (2010) standards for pre-registration nursing education (Application, Knowledge and Understanding, Reflection)