Module Code - Title:
NM4087
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PERSON CENTRED NURSING IN ACUTE COMPLEX CARE
Year Last Offered:
2025/6
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
N
Prerequisite Modules:
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
This module builds on previous learning of the foundations and principles of person centred nursing in providing final year undergraduate students with an understanding and consolidation of key nursing responsibilities and contributions in supporting adults with acute complex care needs.
Syllabus:
Biopsychosocial cultural impacts of acute and complex illness on wellbeing for persons and their families. Nursing assessment tools, techniques and technologies, interventions in supporting safe and compassionate care for persons with acute complex needs. Prioritising and risk reduction. Therapeutic relationships and support for individuals and families in crisis. Collaborating across care teams in monitoring persons with escalating and deteriorating conditions. Principles of maintaining homeostasis utilising exemplars for example advanced airway management, head and multiple trauma, heart failure, shock, diabetic ketoacidosis. Acute pain in complex care and complexities of wound management.
Clinical skills
Assessment and monitoring techniques technologies and tools including EWS
Airway and tracheostomy management
Multiple trauma assessment
Respiratory cardiac and neurological, monitoring
Complex wound management
Blood transfusion
Venepuncture
Cannulation
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
Discuss multi-dimensional nature of assessment in prioritising care and interventions for individuals with unstable and/or complex care needs.
Discuss the role of the nurse in providing person centred practice for individuals with complex healthcare needs.
Critically evaluate the evidence base underpinning the holistic care of individuals requiring complex therapeutic interventions.
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
Value therapeutic relationships and supportive interventions for individuals and families in crisis.
Discuss the principles and risk management strategies informing the delivery of complex and technologically based care.
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
Demonstrate ability to perform nursing clinical skills associated with the module.
How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:
This module examines the complex care needs of the acutely ill adult connecting and integrating core principles and fundamentals of person centred care. It is expected that students will continue to develop transferable skills critical for collaborative practices. The professional values of caring, compassion, dignity, respect, empathy, choice and justice informing decision-making, responsibilities within scope of practice. Lectures, clinical skills laboratories will form the basis for increasing student centred and collaborative learning approaches. Students will accept responsibility for their learning and be committed to applying evidence based practice in quality care provision.
Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):
Prime Texts:
Tait, D., James, J., Williams, C. and Barton, D. (2016)
Acute and Critical Care in Adult
Nursing 2nd Edition
, Sage: London
Talley, N.J., & O'Connor, S. (2017)
Talley and O'Connor's Clinical Examination
(SA India Edition): A Systematic Guide to Physical Diagnosis. Available Online
, Elsevier
Jevon, P. and Ewens, B. (2012)
Monitoring the critically ill patient, 3rd Edition.
, London: Blackwell
Edwards, S. & Williams, J. (2019)
A Nurse's Survival Guide to Critical Care, 1st Updated Edition.
, Elsevier: Edinburgh
Urden, L., Stacy, K.M. and Lough, M.E. (2018)
Critical Care Nursing Diagnosis & Management
8th Edition.
, Elsevier Evolve: Missouri
Aitken, L., Marshall, A. and Chaboyer, W. (2015)
ACCCN's Critical Care Nursing, 3rd Edition
, Elsevier: Australia
Other Relevant Texts:
Wright, S. (2015)
Pain management in nursing practice
, Sage: London
Peate, I. (2019)
Alexander's nursing practice: Hospital and Home, 5th Edition.
, Elsevier: London
Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:
Semester(s) Module is Offered:
Autumn
Module Leader:
mairead.moloney@ul.ie