NMHS32760 Endoscopy Nursing (3)

Academic Year 2024/2025

This Module is designed to provide registered nurses with the knowledge, skills and competence to care for the patient undergoing diagnostic, therapeutic endoscopy and associated treatments and enable them to increase their impact on improving the health and well-being of the greater population.

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Curricular information is subject to change

Learning Outcomes:

At the end of this module the student will:
1. Demonstrate competence, professional responsibility and accountability in the assessment and nursing care of patients pre, intra and post endoscopy procedures
2. Identify the indications, specific equipment, safe procedures and desired patient outcomes of all endoscopy procedures and linked treatments
3. Critically analyse and evaluate the role of the nurse in relation to medication management and advances in endoscopy in line with local and national policy
4. Apply decision making skills in relation to health and safety and infection control principles that underpin endoscopy practice

Indicative Module Content:

Nursing assessment and management of patients requiring endoscopy

Endoscopy related complications

Patient safety and quality care

Physical and psychosocial support of patients requiring endoscopy

Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

28

Practical

22

Autonomous Student Learning

200

Total

250

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

The Endoscopy Nursing CPD programme is open to nurses currently registered with NMBI in the general division and who have achieved a minimum of 6 months recent post registration clinical practice. The nurse must be employed in an Endoscopy Unit in the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital or a Link Hospital / Healthcare Facility. The minimum clinical exposure students are required to complete is 4 months (16 weeks) - the duration of this CPD.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 
Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Open Book Exam Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade

Not yet recorded.


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?

Students shall receive feedback on all assessments associated with the Endoscopy Nursing CPD programme. 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. Feedback can be in oral or written form, formal or informal. Students are responsible for engaging with feedback and applying consideration to the feedback given on their work. Feedback shall be given no later than twenty working days after the deadline for assessment submission, except work that is submitted late.