2024/25 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

HECS2230 Nursing: Providing Quality Care

40 creditsClass Size: 280

Module manager: Mark Chamberlain
Email: m.chamberlain@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable

Year running 2024/25

Pre-requisite qualifications

Normally 120 level 1 credits

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Module summary

You will undertake your second assessed practice placement. You will demonstrate the ability to practice in accordance with the recognised professional, ethical and legal frameworks that guide nursing practice and recognise your own limitations. You will evaluate measures of quality and assess their impact. You will articulate and evaluate approaches to risk. You will evaluate new technologies and their impact on health (including genomic data, digital technologies and artificial intelligence). You will demonstrate co-ordination of individual patient care and delegation skills within the context of team-working

Objectives

Students will complete their second assessed placement and demonstrate co-ordination and delegation of nursing care.

Students will develop and apply the knowledge and skills to identify and evaluate the impact of:
- measures of quality
- risks in environments of care

Students will evaluate new technologies and their impact on health.

Learning outcomes
On completion of this module students will be able to:

1. Demonstrate ability to practice in accordance with the recognised professional, ethical and legal frameworks that guide nursing practice and recognise own limitations.

2. Evaluate measures of quality and assess their impact.

3. Articulate and evaluate approaches to risk.

4. Evaluate new technologies and their impact on health (e.g. genomic data, digital technologies and artificial intelligence).

5. Demonstrate co-ordination of individual patient care and delegation skills within the context of team-working.

Skills outcomes
Please see skills mapping.

Syllabus

This is an integrated module that combines 4 strands central to nursing practice: professional practice; applied practice; the biopsychosocial-spiritual model of health and wellbeing; and evidence-based practice. Students will continue to develop their understanding of key theories within these strands and their application to practice. Indicators of quality care will be considered including how to measure these and utilise the information to improve safety and enhance quality.

Professional Practice:
- NMC The Code and application to co-ordination and delegation of care.
- Introduction to peer coaching including how to supervise and support others
- Quality care, indicators and evaluation of metrics including multiple perspectives
- Risk assessment and management
- Choice of and consent to treatment, including assessment of capacity
- Reflection on own practice and that of others

Applied Practice:
- Interpersonal and communication skills; giving and receiving feedback, and enabling others
- Roles of the inter-disciplinary team and inter-agency working (statutory and non-statutory)
- Communicating and acting in response to risks and quality issues
- Pharmacology: pharmacodynamics and factors affecting absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion (ADME) and reporting adverse events
- Use of new technologies e.g. genomic data, digital technologies and artificial intelligence.
- Clinical skills relevant to field and area of practice

The Biopsychosocial-spiritual Model of Health and Wellbeing:
- Biological: physiological basis of health and wellbeing; genetics and immunology
- Psychological: learning theory, theory of change and motivation psychology of aggression, addiction, stress, pain, hope - spirituality
- Social - consequences of ill health, diversity, Long term health conditions, social factors, economics of integrated care, safeguarding including domestic violence
Spiritual - hope, connectedness

Evidence Based practice:
- Audit and evaluation of practice; including patient experience

Field Specific Content

Adult:
- Care of adults using the biopsychosocial-spiritual model, specifically focussing on immune and genetic diseases (including rheumatoid arthritis, cancer)
- Screening
- Immunisations
- Blood transfusion management

Child:
- Care of children, young people and families using a biopsychosocial-spiritual model; focusing on those with common infectious diseases and the body’s response to these (including introduction to shock and sepsis) and haematological disorders (including thalasseamia and sickle cell anaemia)
- Screening
- Immunisations
- Managing blood product transfusions

Mental Health:
- Care of people living with mental health conditions (including psychoses and disorders of personality)
- Screening and physical health monitoring in mental health care
- Theories in mental health: recovery and survivorship
- Cultural beliefs and mental health
- Experiences and management of pain within a mental health context
- Personal safety
- Genetics in mental health
- Risk assessment and managing distress
- Pain in a mental health context

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Clinical Practice	416	1.00	416.00
Lecture	6	1.00	6.00
Tutorial	12	2.00	24.00
Independent online learning hours			20.00
Private study hours			100.00
Total Contact hours			446.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			566.00

Private study

The module will adopt a blended learning approach. Students will be provided with learning resources both to support face to face sessions and promote independent learning and curiosity. A blend of independent and group learning tasks will be undertaken during this module.

Students will be expected to undertake pre-reading and come to sessions, both theoretical and practical, prepared to apply their knowledge to a variety of different scenarios and discussions.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Student progress is monitored according to attendance at timetabled teaching, by participation in tutorials and by individual supervisors during the period of group and individual supervision.

While on placement, the student will be assigned practice supervisors, a practice assessor and an academic assessor in accordance with the partnership agreement. Feedback will be provided throughout the placement.

Online tutorials and skills@library support are available for the numeracy exam.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Essay	2500 words	100.00
Portfolio	Practice Assessment Document (MYEPAD) - Pass/Fail	0.00
Portfolio	FORMATIVE: Ongoing formative feedback throughout the practice placement (MYEPAD)	0.00
Written Work	FORMATIVE:+/- 500 words of essay - Group and individual academic support	0.00
In-course Assessment	Mock online numeracy exam (1hour)	0.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

This module has theoretical and practice components. All components need to be passed and there is no compensation between elements. There is no compensation between elements.

Exams

Exam type	Exam duration	% of formal assessment
Standard exam (closed essays, MCQs etc) (S1)	1 hr 00 mins	0.00
Total percentage (Assessment Exams)		0.00

1 hour Online numeracy exam is Pass/Fail. Students must achieve 100% to pass

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 17/07/2024

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