Module Code - Title:
NM4181
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PERSON CENTRED MEDICAL NURSING
Year Last Offered:
2025/6
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
N
Prerequisite Modules:
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
This module builds on the philosophises and fundamentals of person centred nursing and introduces students to the principles of acute medical nursing.
Syllabus:
Person centred medical nursing; assessment and monitoring techniques, planning interventions and interrelationships between activities of living utilising exemplars from conditions including assessment of breathlessness, asthma, pneumonia, hypertension, myocardial infarction, acute pain, altered consciousness. The impact of illness on the individual's physical, spiritual, social, cultural and psychological wellbeing; promoting health and recovery.
Clinical skills
Airway management
Nursing assessments and monitoring techniques
Oxygen therapy
Suctioning techniques
Devices: nebulisers and inhalers
Active and assisted limb exercises
Introduction to neurological assessment
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
Describe the person centred approaches to nursing an individual with an acute medical condition.
Discuss the contribution of nursing in supporting individuals with acute medical conditions.
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
Acknowledge the collaborative role of the nurse in providing care and support for individuals and their families.
Value the significance of health promotion and education strategies in promoting healthy lifestyles across the lifespan continuum.
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
Demonstrate safe clinical skills essential for respiratory and circulatory nursing
How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:
This module will provide students with the opportunity to explore fundamentals of medical nursing applying the principles of person centred care to practice. A variety of engaged learning modalities for example lectures, clinical skills laboratories and technologies will foster reflective and critical thinking development. Students will be encouraged to engage in self-directed learning and will be supported to access relevant evidence based literature to inform clinical practice.
Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):
Prime Texts:
Brooker, C. and Nicol, M. (2013)
Alexander's nursing practice, 4th ed.
, Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone.
Dougherty, L. and Lister, S. (2021)
The Royal Marsden Hospital Manual of Clinical Nursing procedures, 9th ed.
, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
Ignatavicius, D.D., Workman, M.L., Rebar, C. and Heimgartner (2020)
Medical -surgical nursing. Concepts for Interprofessional Collaborative Care
, Canada: 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:
Cooper, K and Gosnell, K (2022)
Foundations and Adult Health Nursing
, Canada: Elsevier Mosby.
Peate, I. (2018)
Nursing Practice Knowledge and Care
, London: Wiley Blackwell.
Yoost,B.L. and Crawford, L.R. (2019)
Fundamentals of Nursing. Active learning for collaborative practice
, St Louis: Elsevier.
Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:
BSNUGEUFA - NURSING (GENERAL)
Semester(s) Module is Offered:
Spring
Module Leader:
claire.killeen@ul.ie