Co-ordinating Long Term Care in Partnership (Adult field GEN)

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Articulate and analyse strategies employed by nurses to manage risk and promote a safe and effective health care environment.
• Critically examine the role of the nurse in providing sensitive and evidence based palliative and end of life care.
• Reflect on the lived experience of the person living with long term care needs, and critically analyse how a nurse may respond.
• Analyse and evaluate strategies that may be used to coordinate the care of people with long-term care needs across different settings
• Explore the role of the nurse in working in partnership with people to empower, support and promote the health and well-being of individuals with a long-term condition.

Content for ALL fields: Collaborative / shared decision making. Positive risk taking and living with risk. Supported self management (including use of digital technologies in promoting self-management and sustaining supportive networks). Technological dependency. Integrated care, multidisciplinary and multiagency team working. Monitoring and co-ordinating care (including use of technology and data). Categorical and non-categorical approaches to the care of individuals with a long-term conditions and disabilities. Health economics and long-term partnership care Medicines Management: (Auditing and monitoring medicines management; storage; legal and professional issues in medicines management practice; Concordance) ADULT Field Specific Content: The following will be explored in more depth in relation to the person with a long-term condition: The experience of living with a long-term condition. Co-ordinating care of people with single LTC and multi-comorbidities. Risk management – living with risk and adapting to changing health. The use of digital technologies including tele monitoring and home ventilation Role of family, carers and the importance of supportive networks (incl. assisted based community development). Discharge planning The principles of Palliative and end of life care Contemporary context of palliative and end of life care Symptom recognition, impact and management Assessing and supporting family health and wellbeing Assessing bereavement needs Skills: Managing difficult conversations Nasogastric tubes and Enteral nutrition Catheterisation and catheter management Care after death Syringe Drivers De-escalation, safe holding and Restraint

Lectures Seminars Guided independent study

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Individual Presentation

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: Peer and seminar lead feedback.
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.