Undergraduate Course: Community Nursing (NUST10002)
Course Outline
| School | School of Health in Social Science |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course enables the student nurse to have greater knowledge and understanding about working within community health and social care teams whilst focusing on providing flexible holistic care. The student will gain confidence as they enhance and consolidate their theoretical knowledge, clinical skills and competencies. |
| Course description |
Students will analyse the socio- political context within which community nursing in Scotland is situated leading to an exploration of why community nursing is different and evolving? Students will critique the integrated health and social care agenda.
As part of the course students will consider the 5 dimensions (person (client/patient), team, organisation, me the person, me the role) in respect of caring in the community. This approach is to help understand the complexity of service organisation and delivery in the community and the work of the community nurse. The community nurse is considered mainly within the district nursing team, but considerations is also given to aspects of health visiting in the course
Students will debate developments in anticipatory care, long term conditions and enabling supporting self-care in addition to prevention (early years) for patients and clients.
An examination of change management reformed teams and multidisciplinary teams will occur with an emphasis on examining leadership in community nursing. Students will analyse the importance of communication and safe sharing of timely and accurate information in multidisciplinary teams in respect of service organisation and care delivery.
Consideration will be given to developments in safeguarding vulnerable adults and children.
For ¿me the person¿ we will examine supporting resilience of the nurse with an emphasis on (clinical) supervision and support when working in the community.
Students will engage in lecture/workshop format with the lecturer. Preparatory reading and activities will be required for each teaching session. Students need to engage in reflection, class debate and discussion.
During the placement students will reflect on their work and seek feedback from the mentors.
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Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Critique the challenges and complexity of nursing in the community settings and consider the implications across the 5 dimensions (person, team, organisation, me the person, me the role).
- Evaluate models of community nursing informed by the ever changing political and social context of care (organisation, me the role)
- Critique strategies to assess, plan, deliver and evaluate care and support in partnership with people in community settings (5 dimensions)
- Evaluate the challenges for nurses and patients to participate fully in community health and social care team working (me the role, me the person)
- Debate the strengths and limitations of leadership in community nursing (team, me the role, me the person)
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Additional Class Delivery Information |
The course will be taught in accordance with the pattern for honours option delivery in nursing studies. Currently this is 4 hours of lecture/workshop/clinical skills per week over 5 weeks. Any clinical skills sessions will take place within the 20 contact hours. The students undertake a placement relating to the honours option and this is intended to be in the community nursing setting with the district nurse or health visitor. Where this is not possible an alternative placement will be offered with a focus on meeting the learning outcomes.
(Some suggested clinical skills include male catheterisation, suprapubic, peg tube management, bladder scanning, syringe driver management, tissue viability, wound management, listening skills and motivational interviewing). The skills taught will depend on NHS Lothian availability.
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| Keywords | community nursing,service organisation and delivery,integrated care agenda,teamwork |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Elaine Haycock-Stuart
Tel: (0131 6)50 8442
Email: e.a.haycock-stuart@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Morven Sutherland
Tel: (0131 6)51 3972
Email: Morven.Sutherland@ed.ac.uk |
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