HS245-5-SP-CA:
The Therapeutic Practitioner
2023/24
Health and Social Care (School of)
Colchester Campus & Apprenticeship Location
Spring
Undergraduate: Level 5
Current
Monday 15 January 2024
Friday 22 March 2024
20
25 September 2023
Requisites for this module
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BSC B740DP Nursing (Adult),
BSC B740PD Nursing (Adult),
BSC B760DP Nursing (Mental Health),
BSC B760PD Nursing (Mental Health)
This module allows students to review and appraise the resources, interventions and therapies at the disposal of registered nurses and to select appropriately from these to provide safe and effective care in the complex situations that nursing can operate within. The delivery of any intervention or therapy requires careful consideration in terms of both the evidence base for that intervention and safeguarding people's autonomy in the decision-making process. The module will draw upon experiences of working with people with a range of physical and mental health co-morbidities.
This module enables students to develop critical, evidence-based skills in clinical reasoning and methods of decision-making to support the needs of those in their care.
1. Work in partnership with people, families, carers and colleagues to critically review and evaluate the use and effectiveness of nursing assessment strategies, nursing care plans and nursing interventions, and the therapeutic role of self within the nursing process.
2. Prioritise effectively and manage personal resources when meeting the challenges of providing safe and effective care for people with comorbidities and a range of complex nursing and social care needs.
3. Demonstrate detailed knowledge of pharmacology and recognise the effects of medicines, allergies, drug sensitivities, side effects, contraindications, incompatibilities, adverse reactions, prescribing errors and the impact of polypharmacy and over the counter medication usage.
4. Use evidence-based best practice approaches for prioritising what is important to people, their families and carers at the end of life, supporting decision-making related to treatment and preferences of people who are dying, the deceased and the bereaved.
5. Critically analyse the extent and limitations of their own proficiency and recognise when and how to refer people safely to other professionals or services for clinical intervention or support.
6. Demonstrate the knowledge and confidence to communicate and contribute effectively and proactively to shared decision-making, goal-setting and planning with people, families, communities and professional and interprofessional teams, including safe discharge and transfers.
* Critically appraising evidence and its contribution to decision-making in nursing practice
* Clinical judgement and decision making in nursing practice
* Nursing assessment in complex situations
* Principles and processes for making reasonable adjustments
* Assessing and planning person centred nursing care for people with comorbidities and complex needs
* Assessing and planning person centred nursing care for people who require palliative and end of life care
* Interdisciplinary, interprofessional and collaborative approaches to delivering care
* Effective and person-centred signposting, navigating and referring to other services
* Strategies that promote independence through reablement and rehabilitation
* Critical review of pharmacological interventions – the effects and side-effects of medicines, contraindications, adverse reactions, benefits and limitations
* Medication concordance and the impact of polypharmacy on the person
* Critical perspectives on therapeutic interventions
* Social, psychological and comfort support strategies and therapies in complex situations
Lectures and flipped classroom
Principles of decision-making, supported by critical review of evidence from a range of sources, will be delivered through interactive lectures with supporting technology-enhanced learning objects.
Tutorials/online forums
These will encourage students to apply the principles of critical decision-making to a range of complex nursing care scenarios. Inquiry-based learning scenarios are developed with the participation of people with lived experience.
Simulated practice
Opportunities will be offered for students to participate in simulated activities to rehearse decision-making processes in the safety of a simulated environment.
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
| Coursework / exam |
Description |
Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
| Coursework |
HS245 Summative Submission (Oct 23 - SA) |
|
100% |
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 Abril Tejedor Benitez, email: a.tejedorbenitez@essex.ac.uk.
Abril Tejedor Benitez
Gemma Goldsack (Administrator) hsccolapp@essex.ac.uk
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Mrs Annemarie Horn
University of Cumbria
Senior lecturer Adult nursing
Mr Kevin Crimmons
Newman University Birmingham
Head of Subject, Adult Nursing and Health & Social Care
Available via Moodle
Of 32 hours, 28 (87.5%) hours available to students:
0 hours not recorded due to service coverage or fault;
4 hours not recorded due to opt-out by lecturer(s), module, or event type.
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