Module overview
In this module you will build on your prior learning to gain further knowledge and skills in working in partnership with people. You will continue to develop clinical decision making in relation to the management of long term, multiple and / or complex conditions. Key topics in this module will be integrated care and co-ordinating teams in and across different care environments.
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Learning Outcomes
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Debate strategies that may be used to coordinate the care of children with long-term care needs across different settings including planning for palliative and end of life care.
- Analyse strategies employed by nurses to manage risk and promote a safe and effective health care environment.
- Explain how nurses work in partnership with children, young people and their families to empower, support and promote health and well-being where a child is living with a long-term condition.
- Reflect on the lived experience of children and their carers where a child is living with long term care needs, and analyse how a nurse may respond.
Syllabus
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)
CHILD Field Specific Content:
Co-ordinating community children’s nursing
Technological dependence in childhood
Preadmission and discharge planning: transitioning for children between settings.
Lost childhoods: Chronic sorrow living with disability and illness
Oncology conditions of childhood
Living with and surviving cancer in childhood
Mental wellbeing for children living with illness
Living with congenital and genetic conditions in childhood
Living with long term conditions a body systems approach
Planning for palliative and end of life care
Skills:
Managing difficult conversations
Nasogastric tubes and Enteral nutrition
Catheterisation and catheter management
Care after death
Syringe Drivers
De-escalation, safe holding and restraint
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Lectures
Field/DF specific seminars
Skills sessions
Online/blended learning
Type | Hours |
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Seminar | 9 |
Teaching | 24 |
Practical classes and workshops | 15 |
Clinical Practice | 34 |
Independent Study | 105.5 |
Total study time | 187.5 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
Glasper EA, and Richardson J (2010). A textbook of children’s and young people’s nursing. Edinburgh: Elsevier.
Goodman B & Clemow R (2010). Nursing and Collaborative Practice. Exeter: Learning Matters Ltd.
Assessment
Assessment strategy
Building on the knowledge gained within this module, the summative assessment will further your skills in using the evidence base to consider how a nurse can effectively empower a person living with a long-term condition
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 & seminar lead feedback.
- Final Assessment: No
- Group Work: Yes
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Essay | 100% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Essay | 100% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: External