HS249-6-SL-CA:
The Autonomous Practitioner - Adult Nursing
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2024/25
Health and Social Care (School of)
Colchester Campus & Apprenticeship Location
Summer & Long Vacation
Undergraduate: Level 6
Inactive
Tuesday 22 April 2025
Wednesday 01 October 2025
20
30 January 2023
Requisites for this module
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BSC B740AD Nursing (Adult),
BSC B740AS Nursing (Adult)
This module consolidates 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
This module enables students to critically consolidate their role as an autonomous adult nurse, accountable for leading and managing the care of groups of people in complex and uncertain situations.
1. Work in partnership with people, families, carers and colleagues to safely and effectively lead, manage, monitor and prioritise care for a group of people in complex and unpredictable situations.
2. Recognise the inter-relationship between safe staffing levels and appropriate skills mix, and reflect how these affect public safety, public protection and quality of adult nursing care.
3. Act as a role model by complying with legislation, regulations and policies for assessing, managing and reporting and documenting risks, near misses and critical incidents.
4. Demonstrate effective person and team leadership when working with colleagues and leading teams in adult care services.
5. Reflect on the role of registered nurses and other professionals at different levels of seniority when prioritising actions and care in the event of a major incident in adult care services.
6. Demonstrate knowledge of how prescriptions are generated, the role of generic, unlicensed and off-label prescribing, and the risks associated with these prescribing approaches.
Understanding and applying the principles for making reasonable adjustments
Understanding the responsibilities of the registered 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
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.
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Albert, N. (2022)
Quantum leadership: creating sustainable value in health care. Sixth edition. Burlington, Massachusetts: Jones & Bartlett Learning. Available at:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/universityofessex-ebooks/detail.action?docID=6310892.
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Traynor, M. (2017)
Critical Resilience for Nurses. London: Taylor & Francis Ltd. Available at:
https://doi-org.uniessexlib.idm.oclc.org/10.4324/9781315638928.
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Stanley, D., Bennett, C.L. and James, A.H. (eds) (2023)
Clinical Leadership in Nursing and Healthcare. Third edition. John Wiley & Sons Inc. Available at:
https://app.kortext.com/Shibboleth.sso/Login?entityID=https://idp0.essex.ac.uk/shibboleth&target=https://app.kortext.com/borrow/2038900.
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Huber, D. and Joseph, M.L. (2021)
Leadership and Nursing Care Management. 7th edition. Philadelphia: Elsevier - Health Sciences Division. Available at:
https://app.kortext.com/Shibboleth.sso/Login?entityID=https://idp0.essex.ac.uk/shibboleth&target=https://app.kortext.com/borrow/929900.
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Chaffer, D. and Emerton, B. (2016)
Effective Leadership. London: Taylor & Francis Ltd. Available at:
https://doi-org.uniessexlib.idm.oclc.org/10.1201/b21259.
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Yoder-Wise, P.S. and Sportsman, S. (eds) (2023)
Leading and managing in nursing. Eighth edition. St. Louis, Missouri: Elsevier. Available at:
https://app.kortext.com/Shibboleth.sso/Login?entityID=https://idp0.essex.ac.uk/shibboleth&target=https://app.kortext.com/borrow/2030939.
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The above list is indicative of the essential reading for the course.
The library makes provision for all reading list items, with digital provision where possible, and these resources are shared between students.
Further reading can be obtained from this module's
reading list.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
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Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Ms Stephanie Ozegin, email: sedugh@essex.ac.uk.
Student Administrator Callum Marshall
Email: hsccolapp@essex.ac.uk
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Mr Kevin Crimmons
Newman University Birmingham
Head of Subject, Adult Nursing and Health & Social Care
Available via Moodle
Of 171 hours, 45 (26.3%) hours available to students:
126 hours not recorded due to service coverage or fault;
0 hours not recorded due to opt-out by lecturer(s).
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