Module Code - Title:
NM4251
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SPHERE AND PRACTICE OF THE RNID
Year Last Offered:
2025/6
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
N
Prerequisite Modules:
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
This module introduces students to the uniqueness of intellectual disability nursing practice and rights based approach to care. Within the module the role and contribution of the RNID in caring for people with an intellectual disability is integrated and cognisance is paid to the ever changing paradigm shifts of healthcare policy and provision.
Syllabus:
Historical, current and future practices within intellectual disability nursing, services and approaches to care. Ethos and philosophy of services and practice areas. Role of the RNID nursing practice and practice decision making and student nurse, professional and ethical practice, Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics. Introduction to nursing care planning and record keeping. Communication assessment/interpersonal communication, introduction to alternative and augmentative communication strategies/assisted technology.
Person centred nursing skills
The nursing process and holistic assessment; care plan and documentation
Communication assessment strategies
Supporting individualised communication (accessible health literacy, communication passport)
Personal care (bathing and grooming, oral hygiene, hair care, perineal care)
Assessment and maintenance of skin integrity
Safety in nursing practice (mobility and positioning of clients)
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
(Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
Examine the concept and nature of intellectual disability nursing within the context of historical, social, cultural, international and national influences.
Describe the necessity for individualised assessment when supporting persons with intellectual disability nursing
Describe the relationship between a systematic approach to care and the practice of intellectual disability nursing.
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
(Attitudes and Values)
Appreciate the complex health and social needs of people with an intellectual disability.
Recognise and appreciate the importance of client records
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
(Physical Skills)
Demonstrate clinical skills essential for nursing practice
How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:
Experience
The module will be taught through a combination of lectures and clinical skills laboratories that engage with selected primary texts and supplemented by secondary material (assigned, recommended and/or sourced by students). Lectures will combine contextualisation with reading, illustrated, where necessary, by visual and audio material. Clinical skills laboratories will have an emphasis on participative group-work, and focus on exploring values, attitudes and understanding of disability. Constructive feedback to students will assist them in identifying and articulating future learning needs and actions thus fostering a self and peer approach in managing own learning and development.
Research
Appreciate current evidence based literature and its relevance to nursing practice and incorporate relevant national and international health policy.
Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):
Prime Texts:
Mafuba, K. (2023) (2023)
Learning and Intellectual Disability Nursing Practice.
, Routledge, Taylor and Francis.
McCarron, M. et al. (2018) (2018)
Shaping the future of intellectual disability nursing in Ireland.
, Dublin: Health Service Executive.
Other Relevant Texts:
Flynn, E. (2015)
Disabled justice: Access to justice and the UN convention on the rights of persons with disabilities.
, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Limited.
Gates, B., Fearns, D. and Welch, J. (2015)
Learning disability nursing at a Glance.
, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Gates, B. and Mafuba, K. (2014)
Learning disability nursing: Modern day practice.
, Florida: CRC Press - Taylor and Francis.
Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:
GDNUIDTFA - Nursing (Intellectual Disability)
Semester(s) Module is Offered:
Autumn
Module Leader:
Eileen.Carey@ul.ie