NMHS32860 Emergency Nursing CPD

Academic Year 2024/2025

Indicative Module Description:
The module is designed to provide students with a foundational level of specialist knowledge, skills, and competence for entry into the emergency nursing practice setting. With an emphasis on essential theoretical knowledge that underpins evidence-based care and clinical nursing skills; the module focuses on the nursing care of patients with acute illness and injury in the emergency department practice setting. The module also aims to facilitate the student in their continued professional development with an emphasis on patient-centred care, patient safety, and professional accountability.

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Curricular information is subject to change

Learning Outcomes:

At the end of this module, the student will:
1. Discuss the aims and recommendations outlined in the National Emergency Medicine Clinical Strategy Programme in the quest for the provision of safe and quality patient care in Ireland.
2. Evaluate the role of the emergency nurse in caring for patients who present to the emergency department with an acute illness including acute major/minor injuries.
3. Demonstrate appropriate recognition of primary survey components (including identification and management of life or limb threats to the patient by conducting a focused head-to-toe trauma assessment).
4. Appraise the need and importance of completing a secondary survey on a trauma patient.
5. Evaluate the role of teamwork, collaboration, and communication in the efficient and safe clinical processes and practices within the emergency department.

Indicative Module Content:

Disease and treatment related complications of patients attending the ED

Nursing assessment and management of patients attending the ED

Physical and psychosocial support for patients and families attending the ED.

Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Specified Learning Activities

30
Autonomous Student Learning

168
Lectures

38
Practical

14
Total

250
Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
Lectures, practical skills workshops, clinical placement, individual feedback 
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations
Learning Requirements:

The Emergency Nursing CPD programme is open to nurses registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland in the general division who have achieved a minimum of 6 months of recent post-registration clinical practice. The nurse must be employed in the Emergency Department in the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital for at least six (6) months before starting the programme. Students are required to complete a minimum of 120 hours of clinical experience within the Emergency Department per month for the duration of the CPD module (24 weeks).


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 
Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade In Module Component Repeat Offered
Assignment(Including Essay): Evidenced-Based Clinical Case Study Assignment (1500-word written submission [35%] and 15-minute presentation [15%]) Week 11 Alternative non-linear conversion grade scale 50% Yes

50

 Yes
Practical Skills Assessment: Clinical Competence Assessment Week 15 Pass/Fail Grade Scale Yes

50

 Yes

Carry forward of passed components
Yes
 
Remediation Type Remediation Timing
In-Module Resit Prior to relevant Programme Exam Board
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 
Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Individual feedback provided on all assessments (may be written and/or oral) The purpose of feedback is the promotion of learning for the student. Feedback should be clear, understandable and be structured around goals, criteria and standards.

Name Role
Archie Gonzales Tutor