Module Code - Title:
NM4094
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OLDER PERSON NURSING: VALUE BASED PRACTICE
Year Last Offered:
2025/6
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
N
Prerequisite Modules:
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
The aim of this module is to foster and connect students' understanding of healthy ageing and promote person centred nursing with older persons and their families across the care continuum.
Syllabus:
Valuing individuality, dignity, choice and diversity in later life, protecting and upholding rights of older people, autonomy and advocacy. Meaningful engagement with individuals, families and/or carers connecting intergenerational communities and society. Application of theories of ageing; role transitions and loss. Personal and relationship centred care. Promoting recovery, rehabilitation, wellbeing and choice. Mental and physical factors e.g. cognitive impairment, dementia, pain, falls prevention, vision and hearing loss. Elder abuse and neglect principles and interventions. Therapeutic modalities, dementia screening, polypharmacy, medication concordance. Interdisciplinary collaboration across the care continuum in environments that promote and support independence across community care settings; carer support. Communication and therapeutic strategies to support older person centred care.
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
Discuss person and relationship centred nursing with older persons across the care continuum.
Describe the assessment of older persons' health needs across the care continuum.
Relate how nurses can collaborate within interdisciplinary teams in advocating for the older person, promoting their health and wellbeing.
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
Acknowledge individuality and diversity in supporting older persons experiencing complex acute or chronic illnesses.
Value the role of the nurse in protecting and upholding dignity and rights of the older person and their families/carers.
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
N/A
How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:
The module will explore the principles of a values based approach of nursing the older person. Drawing upon knowledge and practice based experience engaged learning modalities for example lectures, tutorials, small group discussions, case and problem based approaches students will foster and connect an understanding of healthy ageing to promote person centred nursing with older persons and their families across the care continuum. Students will accept increased responsibility for learning becoming proactive in seeking and using evidence.
Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):
Prime Texts:
Eliopoulos, C (2018)
Gerontological nursing, 9th Edn,
, Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer
McCormack, B. and McCance, T. (2017)
Person centred practice in nursing & health care: theory & practice; 2nd ed.,
, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell
McCormack, B., McCance, T., Bulley, C., Brown, D., McMillan, A., Martins, S. (2021)
Fundamentals of person-centred healthcare practice
, Hoboken Wiley Blackwell
Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (2015)
Working with older people: nursing guidance
, Dublin Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland
Price, B. (2019)
Delivering person-centred care in nursing,
, Los Angeles: Sage.
Robnett, R.H. (2020)
Gerontology for the health care professional
, Burlington, MA:, Jones & Barlett Learning
Touhy, T.A. & Jett, K. (2020)
Ebersole and Hess' toward healthy aging human needs and nursing response 10th Ed.
, St. Louis: Elsevier
Other Relevant Texts:
Brown Wilson, C. (2017)
Caring for people with dementia: A shared approach
, Los Angeles: Sage Publications Ltd.
Dick, K.L. & Buttaro, T.M (2020)
Case studies in geriatric primary care and multimorbidity management
, St Louis: Elsevier
Haber, D (2016)
Health promotion & ageing practical applications for health professionals ,
, New York: Springer Publishing.
Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:
BSNUGEUFA - NURSING (GENERAL)
Semester(s) Module is Offered:
Spring
Module Leader:
Dympna.Tuohy@ul.ie