Undergraduate Course: Community Nursing (NUST10002)
Course Outline
| School | School of Health in Social Science |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| 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 knowledge relevant to contemporary health and social care. |
| Course description |
This honours option course develops theoretical understating of the shift in health and social care and is intended to support student nurses to prepare to work within community health and social care teams to provide flexible holistic care. Employing critical thinking skills to examine teamwork and clinical supervision helps prepare the student for working in the changing health and social care context.
The course does draw on some e-resources accessible primarily through learn and the school learning technologists are aware of the course and anticipated needs. The course will be offered alternate years. The course will only run if there are more 12 students.
Students will appraise the socio- political context within which community nursing in Scotland is situated leading to the ability to formulate views on community nursing and debate whether community nursing is evolving and if is it different to acute care nursing? 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 students construct understandings of 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 employ skills to evaluate 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¿ students will appraise supporting resilience of the nurse with an emphasis on (clinical) supervision and support when working in the community.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | Students must have progressed to Honours to take this class. |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- By the end of this honours options the students will have acquired the ability to: Appraise 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 health and social care policy relevant to 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 |
Students will engage in lecture/workshop format with the lecturer. Preparatory reading and activities will be required for the teaching session. Students need to engage in reflection, class debate and discussion.
Students will reflect on their clincal experiences as relevant to community health and social care. The course will be taught in accordance with the pattern for honours option delivery in nursing studies 20 lectures over 10 weeks |
| 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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