2024/25 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

HECS3295 Adult Nursing: Providing Complex Care

40 Credits Class Size: 200

Module manager: Dominic Egan
Email: d.j.egan@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable

Year running 2024/25

Pre-requisite qualifications

Normally 120 credits at level 2

Mutually Exclusive

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Module summary

You will practice in accordance with the recognised professional, ethical and legal frameworks that guide nursing practice and recognise own limitations. You will be able to critically evaluate the care requirements for individuals with complex needs to facilitate optimal recovery or end of life care. You will be able to recognise and respond to the mental and physical deterioration of a person demonstrating evidence-based decisions. You will critically evaluate the impact of interventions for people and their families. Within this module you can undertake a non-assessed international placement. You will complete your fourth assessed placement.

Objectives

Students will complete their fourth assessed placement and demonstrate leadership and management skills.

Students will source, appraise and critically apply the evidence base to effectively care for a patient with complex, acute and urgent health and social care needs.

Learning outcomes

By the end of the module students will be able to:

1. Practice in accordance with the recognised professional, ethical and legal frameworks that guide nursing practice for adults and older adults and discuss own limitations.

2. Critically evaluate the care requirements for adults and older adults with complex needs to facilitate optimal recovery or end of life care.

3. Recognise and respond to the mental and physical deterioration of adults and older persons demonstrating evidence-based decisions.

4. Critically evaluate the impact of interventions for adults and older persons and their families.

Skills outcomes

Please see skills mapping.

Syllabus

In this field specific integrated module combines 4 strands central to nursing practice: professional practice; applied practice; the biopyschosocial-spiritual model of health and wellbeing; and evidence-based practice.

Professional Practice:
- NMC The Code in relation to accountability and leading practice
- Recognising accountability in decision-making in practice
- Engaging with regional, national and international networks
- Resilience and the ability to cope with increasing responsibility and accountability.
- Models of leadership considering their own strengths and weaknesses.
- Ethics and legislation around deterioration

Applied Practice:
- Interpersonal and communication skills (including undertaking challenging conversations)
- Selecting, utilising, interpreting and responding to assessment tool data
- Coordination and delegation of care
- Assessment and management of the person with complex health needs, including deterioration and appropriate referral
- Awareness of emerging technologies and their application in health and social care and the ethical implications of these developments
- Discriminatory practice and inequality regarding people and their families and staff e.g. unconscious bias, equality and inclusion, PREVENT etc.
- Pharmacology in relation to people with complex and acute needs
- Clinical skills

Biopyschosocial-spiritual Model of Health and Wellbeing:
- Biological - pathophysiology of body systems relevant to individuals with complex and acute conditions
- Psychological - coping with uncertainty, existential distress, Social – religious, cultural and - spiritual beliefs and practices
- Spiritual - sudden or unexpected death.

Evidence Based practice:
- Standardised measures used in practice,
- Evaluate alternative courses of action
- Decision support tools and how they are used to support clinical activity.
- Clinical guidelines and their evidence base
- Implementation of research: barriers and facilitators

Adult:
- Knowledge and understanding of pathophysiological processes that underpin complex conditions.
- Structured approach to assessing the acutely ill person
- Patient transfer - assessment and management
- Transplantation - donor (and family) perspective and recipient perspective.
- Pain: Complex acute and chronic pain,
- Coping with a diagnosis, coping with mortality, Working with the dying: Sudden death
- Assessment and management of a person in mental health crisis.
- RAPIDE

Teaching Methods

Private study

Students are expected to undertake directed reading in preparation for taught sessions and to use their practice placement to recognise and explore (complex) patient situations using theory and members of the inter-professional team to consolidate their ability to recognise and manage mental and/or physical deterioration in an individual.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Student progress is monitored according to attendance at timetabled teaching, by participation in tutorials and by individual supervisors during the period of group and individual supervision.

While on placement, the student will be assigned practice supervisors, a practice assessor and an academic assessor in accordance with the partnership agreement. Feedback will be provided throughout the placement.

Methods of Assessment

This module has theoretical and practice components. All components need to be passed and there is no compensation between elements.

Reading List

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 4/29/2024

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