module specification

This module will introduce students to nursing in the local community, considering the roles that nurses in GP practices, district nursing, health visiting, occupational health and social care nursing play in supporting primary health care and care close to, and in the home.
It will give students to explore the current legal, regulatory and ethical governance of care close to home, using recent legislation to understand the benefits of home and community care.
The module also aims to give students the opportunity to explore the landscape of social care nursing, considering contemporary issues such as the spread of Covid-19 in care homes, and the funding of both social and primary care systems in relation to nursing care across the lifespan, and across fields of nursing care.

Available for Study Abroad? NO

In this module, students will consider the needs of individuals across the human lifespan and how these might be met through access to primary care, community care and social care provision (NMC LO 1.9).

It will introduce and explore the scope and history of primary care and public health nursing and social care, and identify contemporary influences on nursing practice such as the NHS Long Term Care (2019) paper and the Integrated Care bill (2022) and their effects on patient and service user care and experience.
Strategies for assessing patients in the home or clinic setting; promoting safeguarding of vulnerable groups in society will be introduced in the module (NMC LO 1.12).

The role of primary care services in seeing and treating individuals from across the lifespan, and fields of nursing will be covered (child health, Learning Disability, Mental Health).

The strategies for person-centred care in a wide range of patient and service user groups; promoting dignity, privacy, comfort and sleep alongside physical and mental health care needs will also be covered in the module (NMC LO 1.14; NMC LO 4.1).
The requirement for interprofessional working between local agencies in Primary, community and social care agencies will be introduced, and the role of core professionals supporting patients in these areas will also be covered (NMC LO 1.13) The mechanisms for the development of an understanding of personal health and safety issues for nurses providing home care and how this can be promoted will also be introduced (NMC LO 6.1).

The module will contain a range of learning and teaching approaches such as small groupwork seminars and student led groupwork, larger group lectures, communication workshops, immersive virtual reality case studies and case study simulation in the ‘typical home’ simulation rooms. Self-directed learning using the Virtual Learning platform WebLearn will be employed.

On successful completion of this module students will be able to:

1. Identify the scope of nursing care close to home applying an understanding of  what is important to people and how this knowledge can be used to ensure their needs for safety, dignity, privacy, comfort and sleep.
2. Analyse and evaluate patient assessment data using a standardised approach and documentation to assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care; involving people, their families, and carers in decisions about care.
3. Apply an understanding of human development across the lifespan; and take into consideration any learning disability or mental health condition, when undertaking patient or service user nursing assessments and developing appropriate care plans
4. Recognise the personal and external factors that may unduly influence the decisions or decision-making capacity of people in their care.
5. Develop, manage and maintain appropriate relationships with people, their families, carers, and colleagues in non-hospital settings.

In order to pass the module students will be required to gain a mark of 40% in each summative assessment component.

1. A 15-minute group presentation of a case study scenario based in a primary care or community-based setting with a supporting narrative of 1000 words (50%)
2. A 2000-word reflective essay reflecting on the value of either primary, community or social care with a discussion of the literature underpinning the choices your group made in the case study.  (50%)

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