NMHS10510 Clinical Practice 1 (MH)

Academic Year 2020/2021

This module will provide the student with initial contact with service users and is designed to facilitate integration of knowledge and practice in the clinical setting. The module facilitates the learning of essential clinical skills and the attainment of standards/criteria identified in the National Competency Assessment Document (NCAD) Year 1. The student is provided with an opportunity to practice, under supervision, some skills previously learned in the clinical skills laboratory.
The module is part of the essential clinical requirements for professional registration. The student must pass all individual clinical placements within the module before a pass grade can be awarded for the module. All clinical placement modules must be passed and all of the clinical time completed for the current stage before the student can progress to the next stage of the programme. The credit load of the module reflects student effort hours required to achieve the learning outcomes.

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Curricular information is subject to change

Learning Outcomes:

On successful completion of this module students will be able to:
• Attain predetermined standards and demonstrate psychomotor and interpersonal skills related to the domains of competence for Stage 1 mental health nursing students
• Identify key ethical and professional issues related to care of the service user
• Identify and discuss the elements of assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of psychiatric nursing care and how care is organised and managed
• Identify strengths and weaknesses of personal communication techniques and apply professional communication skills to practice
• Identify strategies to enhance own clinical learning

Indicative Module Content:

Contact with service users in any of a diverse range of health care settings
Supervision in clinical practice
Observation and engagement with service users including building rapport, utilising communication skills, practice of nursing interventions under supervision
Learning through doing, reflection and feedback from clinical nurses/preceptors/ multidisciplinary team and nurse practice development team members
Learning about care planning, reporting, handover, documentation

Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Placement/Work Experience

11
Total

11
Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
This is a practical module focused on clinical practice in care settings with service users.
Students will get to link theory to practice in real-life situations with guidance, support and feedback.
Teaching and learning is thus experiential and guided by practice, skills performance, reflection and discussion.
Competency will be assessed by the student's preceptor using a standardised document. 
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 
Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Open Book Exam Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade
Portfolio: The student will have continuous assessment on clinical placement using the National Competency Assessment Document (NCAD) to assess the attainment of standards as determined by the NMBI. Varies over the Trimester n/a Other Yes

100

Carry forward of passed components
No
 
Resit In Terminal Exam
Summer No
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
• Self-assessment activities

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Students will have set meetings with their preceptor to establish a learning plan and goals to be met against specific domains and standards and then to evaluate progress against these standards. Feedback will be provided by the preceptor and/or team and via the Clinical Placement Coordinator and documented in the student's portfolio of evidence the National Clinical Assessment Document (NCAD).

Essential:
Core and Essential Theory Text available in the UCD Library:
Essential:
Evans, K., Nizette, D. and O’Brien, A. (eds) (2020) Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing in the UK. London: Elsevier. Available from UCD Library - http://tinyurl.com/unnz8dr
Please consider purchasing this text which you will find invaluable.

The following are all available from the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI) and may be accessed from this link https://www.nmbi.ie/Standards-Guidance or go directly to the website.

NMBI (2020) Guide for Registered Nurses and Midwives on Medication Administration
NMBI (2014) Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics
NMBI (2013) Guidance to Nurses and Midwives on Social Media and Social Networking
NMBI (2015) Working with Older People – Nursing Guidance
NMBI (2015) Scope of Nursing and Midwifery Practice
NMBI (2015) Recording Clinical Practice Professional Guidance
NMBI (2007) Guidance to Nurses and Midwives on Medication Management
NMBI Registration: Nursing Students: guidance on responsibilities and clinical practice experience

Additional and strongly recommended
Whalen, K. Radhakrihnan, R. and Feild, K. (ed.) (2019) Lippincott’s illustrated reviews: Pharmacology. 7th edn. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer. This will be a helpful refresher on pharmacological principles.

These books are excellent and will help prepare you to consider some of the debates in psychiatry and also prepare for specialist groups/ specialist interventions as you complete Stage 1 and move to Stage 2.

Title Essentials of Mental Health Nursing
Author (Eds) Wright K.M. and McKeown, M. (2018)
ISBN 978-1-4129-6197-4
Publisher Sage
Category Recommended reading for those interested in Recovery Approach and the current debates in psychiatry/contexts of mental health care and anti-psychiatry concepts


Title CBT for Depression: An Integrated Approach
Author Stephen Barton, Peter Armstrong
ISBN 978-1-5264-0273-8
Publisher Sage
Category Good text/ recommended/background reading


Name Role
Dr Timothy Frawley Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Dr Colman Noctor Lecturer / Co-Lecturer