Module Code - Title:
NM4153
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PERSON CENTRED SURGICAL NURSING
Year Last Offered:
2025/6
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
N
Prerequisite Modules:
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
This module connects the principles and fundamentals of previous learning and provides students with an understanding of person centred surgical nursing from a theoretical and practice perspective.
Syllabus:
Person centred surgical nursing; pre and postoperative assessment and care for planned, emergency and day surgery through exemplars: laparoscopic and open surgery for example, bowel surgery; breast surgery, fracture assessment and management. Body image. Patient education and promoting recovery. Minimising risk of surgical complications (thromboembolism, sepsis and shock). Acute pain management and wound care. Post anaesthetic care-topical, local, regional and general.
Clinical skills
Pre and postoperative assessment tools
Wound assessment and management strategies
Management of skin closure and wound drainage devices
Management of immobilisation
Management of nausea and vomiting
Naso -gastric drainage
Stoma care
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
Describe the principles of person centred surgical nursing.
Describe preoperative assessment for individuals undergoing planned day and emergency surgery.
Describe the nursing care and interventions to promote recovery and minimise risk of surgical complications.
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
Value the individuality of a person's journey when undergoing surgery.
Acknowledge the collaborative role of the nurse in the provision of person centred care to the individual undergoing surgery.
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 will explore principles of person centred surgical nursing building on the foundational knowledge of year one of the programme. Knowledge, compassion, patient-centred and safe care is developed through engaged learning modalities for example lectures, clinical skills laboratories, small group discussions, case and problem based approaches. Students will take increased responsibility, becoming proactive in seeking and using evidence to inform learning.
Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):
Prime Texts:
Brooker, C. and Nicol, M. (2011)
Alexander's nursing practice, 4th ed.
, Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone.
Dougherty, L. and Lister, S. (2021)
The Royal Marsden hospital manual of clinical nursing procedures, 10th ed.
, Chichester: Wiley Blackwell.
Ignatavicius, D. D. and Workman, M. L. (2017)
Medical- surgical nursing. Patient-centered collaborative approach, Volume 1 and Volume 2, 9th ed.
, Missouri: Elsevier.
Hinkle, J. L., Cheever, K. H. and Overbaugh, K. J. (2022)
Brunner & Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing.
, Philadelphia: Woilters Kluwer
Other Relevant Texts:
Pudner, R. (2020)
Nursing the surgical patient 4rd ed.
, Edinburgh: Bailliere Tindall Elsevier.
Burke, K.M., LeMone, P., Mohn-Brown and Eby, L. (2014)
Medical -Surgical Nursing Care, 3rd ed.
, Essex: Pearson.
Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:
Semester(s) Module is Offered:
Autumn
Module Leader:
Kathleen.Markey@ul.ie