Module overview
This module aims to equip health care professionals to meet the acute care needs of patients across diverse settings such as assessment units, inpatient wards, admission areas, emergency departments, theatres recovery, rapid response and community teams. This module is aimed at health care professionals who wish to increase their knowledge and understanding of caring for acutely ill child and adult patients' such as paediatric nurses, adult nurses, paramedics, physiotherapists or practice nurses.
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Learning Outcomes
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Critically consider the factors that impact on high risk patient groups.
- Evaluate the principles of holistic assessment, assessment tools and the use of technology in the care of patients with acute care needs.
- Critically examine the psychological needs of the patient with acute care needs and their significant others.
- Evaluate the professional complexities of managing patients care across acute care settings
- Analyse the significance of physiological responses presenting in a range of conditions.
- Justify relevant interventions in the management and recovery of acutely ill patients' care.
Syllabus
Acute patient care is increasing, and the demand for staff to upskill their knowledge and skills to fulfil and deliver high quality care is required to help provide more integrated acute care services (National Health Service {NHS}, 2014). This module offers health care professionals working from a range of care settings the unique opportunity to explore the care needs of acutely ill child and adult patients.
The syllabus will enable you to learn about:
Principles of holistic assessment and assessment tools.
Use of technology in acute care.
Patient management and recovery care needs.
Physiological responses due to different conditions.
Psychosocial needs.
Professional/legal/ethical complexities.
Reference
National Health Service (2014) Five Year Forward View. London: NHS England.
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
The teaching is centred upon an andragogical teaching theory (Knowles 1990) which recognises that individuals have different learning styles. Therefore, this module provides a range of methods and self-directed study to enhance your learning experience, both inside and outside the classroom. In addition, the module offers a unique opportunity to share and discuss clinical issues, experiences and views with other health care professionals, to enable you to develop/enhance critical thinking and problem solving skills. This will enable you to work collegiately to meet these new challenges.
Teaching methods will include:
• Scenarios.
• Lectures.
• Seminars/group discussions.
An interactive Blackboard site provides access to lecture notes, current evidence, interactive learning tools and relevant websites. You will be expected to engage with the electronic material in preparation for group activities and individual tasks to support your learning during timetabled sessions.
Reference
Knowles MS (1990) The adult Learner: a neglected species (4th Edition) Houston: Gulf Publishing.
| Type | Hours |
|---|---|
| Teaching | 30 |
| Independent Study | 220 |
| Total study time | 250 |
Resources & Reading list
Internet Resources
Moving Care to the community: an international perspective.
Journal Articles
Kean S (2013). Surviving critical illness: Intensive care and beyond. Journal of Clinical Nursing.
Ekim A (2018). The post-intensive care syndrome. Comprehensive Child and Adolescent Nursing.
Textbooks
Moore T and Woodrow A. High Dependency Nursing Care.
Cockett A and Day H. Children's High Dependency Nursing.
Dixon M, Crawford D, Teasdale D, Murphy J. Nursing the High Dependent child or infant.
Assessment
Formative
This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.
Group work activities
- Assessment Type: Formative
- Feedback: Group feedback
- Final Assessment: No
- Group Work: No
Online test
- Assessment Type: Formative
- Feedback: Group feedback
- Final Assessment: No
- Group Work: No
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Online test | 100% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Online test | 100% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External