The student should be able:
1. To build upon and advance his/her repertoire of knowledge, skills, attitudes and professional values:
2. To demonstrate the requisite knowledge, skills, attitudes and professional values in the care of persons presenting with specific needs, including critical analysis, creative thinking, decision making and communication:
3. To avail of learning experiences that advance the student's professional development and personal growth and which support the student's capacity to be a self-directed learner:
4. To articulate a sense of professional awareness, commitment, professional responsibility and accountability in emergency nursing.
5. To demonstrate the importance of a culture of quality and safety that promotes openness and transparency, teamwork, and effective communication
6. To describe key QPS considerations and tools to promote ongoing enhancement of quality and safety in healthcare delivery.
7. To understand errors and patient harm and demonstrate knowledge of how to apply tools to support the identification of factors contributing to errors and strategies to monitor and address issues.

This module aims to develop ED nurses’ clinical role by enhancing their ability to assess, diagnose, plan, intervene and evaluate care in specialist environments.
This module enables the students to apply their knowledge, skills and understanding of specialist theory to patient care, and will require the emergency nurse to demonstrate defined competence within the emergency department setting.
On completion of this module students should be able to:
• Integrate knowledge, skills and understanding of specialist theory to patient care;
• Apply the principles and skills of advanced initial assessment, diagnosis, planning, intervening, and evaluating, and multidisciplinary team working to their ED care;
• Use evidence-based tools and related theories to guide nursing practice;
• Disseminate evidence-based knowledge to other colleagues and peers.

Not applicable to this module.

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment

Comprehensive formative and summative feedback and guidance offered, on an individual basis.