Module Code - Title:
NM4141
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FUNDAMENTALS OF NURSING PRACTICE
Year Last Offered:
2025/6
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
N
Prerequisite Modules:
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
The purpose of the module is to explore the fundamentals of general nursing practice in nursing the person in hospital and community settings.
Syllabus:
Delivery of compassionate, safe and person centred nursing in hospital utilising a multi-disciplinary approach. Promote a holistic systematic approach to assessing, planning, delivering, evaluating care in partnership with individuals. Fundamentals of care including communication and information; personal hygiene; skin integrity; pressure area care; eating and drinking, mouth care; elimination, mobility, promoting independence; sleep and rest, sexuality, relationships, ensuring comfort, pain management. Introduction to pre and postoperative care. This module will incorporate the equivalent of one week clinical placement.
Clinical Skills
Nursing assessment, recording and reporting information
Assisting and promoting personal care
Assisting with eating and drinking
Mouth care
Assisting with elimination
Urinalysis
Assessment and maintenance of skin integrity
Safe positioning of patients
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
Describe the fundamentals of person centred practice across hospital and community settings.
Utilise a nursing framework to assess, plan, deliver and evaluate nursing care.
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
Value the role of the nurse in providing person centre care in hospital and community settings.
Demonstrate an appreciation of the qualities of compassion in providing fundamental person centred care.
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
Demonstrate safe clinical skills essential to perform person centred nursing.
How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:
This module will provide the student with an understanding of the fundamentals of person centred nursing in preparation for clinical practice. A variety of engaged learning modalities for example lectures, clinical skills laboratories and technologies will support the development of knowledge. Students will be encouraged to engage in self-directed learning and will be supported to access relevant evidence based literature to inform clinical practice. This module will integrate and connect theory with practice and provide the student an introduction to practice placement.
Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):
Prime Texts:
Lister, S., Hofland, J., Grafton, H., and Wilson, C. eds (2021)
The Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures, Student Edition. 8th ed.,
, John Wiley & Sons
Hinkle, J. L., Cheever, K. H. and Overbaugh, K. (2020)
Brunner & Suddarth's textbook of medical-surgical nursing, 15th Ed.,
, Philadelphia: Lippincott.
Other Relevant Texts:
Delves-Yates, (2022)
Essentials of nursing practice, 3rd Ed.,
, London: Sage
Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:
Semester(s) Module is Offered:
Autumn
Module Leader:
Irene.Cassidy@ul.ie