Overview

•Emotional kindness. •Understanding of the individual’s lived experience and their vulnerability with complex health needs, risk issues and management, and safeguarding across the lifespan. •Application of an individual person-centred perspective.
•Holistic person-centred review of disease processes (e.g. cardiovascular disease, dementia, diabetes, depression) - mental, physical, social, language, cultural and spiritual. •Promoting empowerment for health and well-being - to find support, information and representation and for shared decision making for co-production in care. •Broader perspective on health, social care and support (e.g. third sector, social prescribing) and understanding of the broader context of care - structural and socio-economic determinants within, and surrounding, care settings and the impact on the public health and health promotion agenda. •Importance of communication, cultural and language sensitivity, teamwork and the nurse as the advocate. Fundamentals of care: e.g. diet, nutrition, fluid •balance. •Role of the nurse in promoting and maintaining global health; contribution to Millennium goals (WHO) across the lifespan. •Feasibility, development, implementation, de-implementation and evaluation of new and emerging nursing roles and services through awareness of political influences, finance and resources in business cases for change. •Hygiene, preventive medicine and health education (to meet NMC EU Directive for general nurses). •Nursing: nature and ethics of the profession, general principles of health and nursing (to meet NMC EU Directive for general nurses). •Nursing principles in relation to: general and specialist medicine and surgery; child care and paediatrics; maternity care; mental health and psychiatry; care of the old and geriatrics (to meet NMC EU Directive for general nurses).

Assessment Strategy

-threshold -Threshold - Grades: D- to D+ Understanding of the facts and principles specific to the topics covered in this module and the outcomes being assessed. Students will be required to achieve a minimum of D- grade in the assignment to in order to pass.

-good -Good - Grades: C- to C+ Good understanding of the facts and principles specific to the topics covered in this module and the outcomes being assessed. Very Good Grades: B- to B+ A very good understanding of the facts and principles specific to the topics covered in this module and the outcomes being assessed

-excellent -Excellent - Grades: A- to A* Excellent understanding of the facts and principles specific to the topics covered in this module and the outcomes being assessed.

Learning Outcomes

• 1. Debate a range of contemporary issues in adult nursing within the current health context

• 2. Demonstrate knowledge of pathophysiology relevant to adult nursing

• 3. Apply evidence of care management to person-centred care in the adult nursing context

• 4. Formulate a person centred care plan within the field of adult nursing