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This module equips students with the advanced knowledge and skills to lead, manage and coordinate care during practice-based learning experiences.  Students will develop independence in the range of enhanced adult nursing proficiencies and procedures.

Students will demonstrate critical, reflective and person-centred leadership when working with others, and demonstrate proficiency in leading and managing the complexities and ambiguities of challenging and conflicting episodes of physical health care.

The aims of this module are:

• To critically evaluate sources of knowledge and evidence./


• To utilise a range of advanced skills in adult nursing.


• To be accountable for leading and coordinating safe, effective, person-centred adult nursing care.

By the end of this module, students will be expected to be able to:

1. Effectively lead, coordinate and manage high quality person-centred care of a group of adult service users, including those who are emotionally or physically vulnerable, and prioritise, delegate and assign care responsibilities to others where appropriate.


2. Demonstrate advanced knowledge and critical application of the principles of infection prevention and control when leading care, acting as a role model in communicable disease surveillance and antimicrobial stewardship and resistance in adult health care settings.


3. Demonstrate enhanced critical application of advanced mental health nursing proficiencies.


4. Competently manage the complexities and risks when providing mental, cognitive, behavioural and physical care in physical health services.


5. Demonstrate sound decision-making, clinical judgement and problem-solving capability based on current evidence, across a range of professional contexts and adult healthcare delivery settings.


6. Demonstrate sound knowledge, understanding and application to manage the administration and optimisation of all medications commonly used in adult nursing care, retaining the focus on the person-centeredness of care at all times.

Syllabus

• How to facilitate your own learning and others’ learning


• How to use critical reflective practice and critical evaluation to promote continuing professional development


• Showing leadership in challenging discriminatory practices


• How to evaluate and integrate diverse and contradictory sources of evidence to guide your practice and your experiential learning


• Getting the most from practice-based learning processes


• Preparation for participating in practice-based learning


• Applied introduction to using MYEPAD Part 4


• Embodying the Professional Values, conduct and behaviours of the NMC Code (MYEPAD Part 4)


• Preparation for, participation in, and assessment of Proficiencies documented in the MYEPAD Part 4 and the OAR.


• Preparation for, participation in, and assessment of the two Summative Episodes of Care in the MYEPAD Part 4.


• Preparation for, participation in, and assessment of Medicines Management in the MYEPAD Part 4.

Placement

Students will work under minimal, often indirect, supervision of a range of practice supervisors who have been prepared for this role and their learning will be overseen by Practice Learning Coordinators in placement setting.  Link lecturers and practice educators from the university will provide support to students and placement providers.

Tutorials

Tutorial-based methods will nurture students’ reflective and critical research capability.  Tutorials will also provide opportunities for clinical supervision where students can engage in detailed reflection on incidents and experiences they have encountered in their adult nursing practice.  Tutorials will be supported by nurse practitioners from clinical partners.  Tutorials will be delivered separately to level 6 and level 7 students (40hrs of differentiated learning in total). There will be front loading of Level 7 specific delivery to support students transitioning to Masters Level study.

Simulated practice

University-based learning will primarily take place through simulation to fully prepare students to participate in the procedures, proficiencies and practices of advanced adult nursing care, managing complex situations independently and in teams.  Students will be able to practise approaches to leadership in a safe space.  They will also have the opportunity to engage with people with lived experiences to gain insight into their experiences of organisational practices and the value of person-centred leadership.