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This module advances learning around compassionate, clinical leadership in adult nursing. 

Students will consider the accountabilities and human consequences associated with their own and others’ leadership decisions at the point of care. They will be supported to explore the complexities and uncertainties of clinical situations. Students will critically examine how the ‘quality’ of care is defined, measured and audited, and the impact of these measurements on the lived experiences of people. They will reflect upon their own professional development needs and proactively plan their own development.

The aims of this module are:

• To enable students to critically advance their role as an autonomous adult nurse.


• To enable students to be accountable for leading and managing the care of groups of people in complex and uncertain situations.

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

1. Demonstrate critical application of leadership and management theories and principles to prioritise care for a group of adult service usersin complex and unpredictable situations.


2. Comply with and critically analyse legislation, regulations and policies for assessing, managing and reporting and documenting risks and critical incidents specific to adult nursing care settings.


3. Demonstrate autonomy in critical decision-making when leading and managing complex situations in adult nursing settings.


4. Demonstrate critical awareness of interprofessional teamwork and how leadership impacts upon the function of an effective interprofessional team.


5. Critically reflect on the role of adult nursing leaders in shaping safety and organisational culture of adult care services.


6. Demonstrate advanced knowledge of how prescriptions are generated, the role of generic, unlicensed and off-label prescribing, and the risks associated with these prescribing approachesas commonly used in adult care settings.

Syllabus

• Understanding and applying the principles for making reasonable adjustments.


• Understanding the responsibilities of the registered adult nurse in medicine. management including the role of generic, unlicensed and off label prescribing and the associated risks.


• Planning and managing safe discharge and transfer of patients between care settings.


• The principles of effective and authentic clinical leadership in adult nursing contexts.


• Group, team and organisational dynamics.


• Prioritisation and delegation of care needs in adult nursing.


• The integration and influence of health legislation and policies in decision-making and leadership.


• Measuring quality of care and the performative use of metrics.


• Maintaining safe work and care environments.


• Skill mix and safe staffing in adult nursing contexts.


• Managing and reporting risk in clinical settings where adult nurses work.


• Major incidents in adult nursing contexts.

Lectures and flipped classroom

Interactive lectures from keynote speakers and clinicians (shared with mental health nursing students) will introduce the principles, concepts and models of leadership, quality improvement and governance. Online learning objects, including videos from managers, leaders and people with lived experience, will be used to prepare students for lecture activities.

 Tutorials

Opportunities to apply the principles to a series of field specific case studies in action learning sets (both face to face and virtual) will be co-facilitated by clinicians and academic staff who hold, or have held, clinical leadership roles.

Simulated practice

Opportunities will be offered for students to participate in simulated activities to rehearse leadership activities in complex and ambiguous situations, in the safety of a simulated environment.

Differentiation from level 6

Approximately 80% of this level 7 variant of HS198 will be co-delivered with students following a level 6 variant, where there is shared, field-specific learning required to achieve the professional standards of proficiency and learning outcomes. 20% of contact hours will be delivered separately to level 6 and level 7 students, where level 7 students will focus specifically on advanced and critical reflection on the application and implementation of leadership frameworks aligned to learning outcomes.