NMHS10440

Learning Outcomes:

On completion: the student will be able to
• Identify codes of professional conduct and standards for nursing practice as determined by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland.
• Discuss the legal and ethical concepts that inform nursing practice and provide examples of how ethical principles, analysis and decision making are applied in nursing practice.
• Explore values and concepts fundamental to nursing and identify how these values and concepts are expressed and applied in nursing practice.
• Summarize the main principles of two theoretical approaches to nursing and discuss how these theories strengthen and support nurses in the implementation of a holistic approach to the nursing process
• Describe how use of a professional practice model, a nursing assessment framework and standardised nursing terminology impact on nurses’ control over their practice and on their provision of fundamental nursing care.
• Utilise theory to exemplify high quality listening, attending and responding when interacting with others.
• Reflect on the quality of their interpersonal relationships developed while on clinical placement. Become aware of own strengths and weaknesses when communicating with patients/clients.
• Build on their interpersonal skills which were introduced in semester one. Utilise theory to develop high quality listening, attending and responding when interacting with others.

Student Effort Hours:

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:

Blended learning
Self directed learning
Online Lectures
Communication workshops

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.

Module Requisites and Incompatibles

Not applicable to this module.
 

Assessment Strategy

 

Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Online automated feedback

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Group and individual feedback to students from continious assessment prior to submission of final assessment.

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Doenges, M.E., Moorhouse, M.F. & Murr, A.C. (2019), Nursing care plans: guidelines for individualizing client care across the life span, 10th; ed F.A. Davis, Philadelphia.

Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI) (2015) Scope of Nursing and Midwifery Practice Framework, Dublin: NMBI. Available at: https://www.nmbi.ie/Standards-Guidance/Scope-of-Practice

Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI) (2021) Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics for Registered Nurses, Dublin: NMBI. Available at: https://www.nmbi.ie/Standards-Guidance/Code

Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI) (2013) Guidance to Nurses and Midwives on Social Media and Social Networking, NMBI: Dublin. Available at: https://www.nmbi.ie/nmbi/media/NMBI/Publications/Guidance-to-Nurses-Midwives-on-Social-Media-Social-Networking.


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Pridmore, J.A., Murphy, F. & Williams, A. (2010), "Nursing models and contemporary nursing 2: can they raise standards of care?", Nursing times, 106, (24), pp. 22.

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