BNurs (Hons) Learning Disability Nursing

Module: 4NH040

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Walsall Campus

This module is intended to provide you with the necessary knowledge and skills to support you within your first care setting. During the module you will consider the legal, ethical and professional aspects of care interventions across a range of sectors including the public, private and charitable sectors. You will explore commonly encountered health conditions and a range of nursing interventions utilised across all fields of nursing practice and you will examine how effective communication strategies can assist the process of working in partnership with others

Module: 4NH026

Credits: 40

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Walsall Campus

This module enables you to explore the human life journey from conception to death. In so doing you will develop an understanding of public health, health protection and health promotion and their significance to your developing nursing practice. During this module you will learn how to undertake a health needs assessment of a local population, which will provide a basis for you to examine the impact and influence of genomics; lifestyle choice; mental ill-health; wider determinants of health; and communicable disease on the human life journey, its diversity and population health. Throughout the module you will develop knowledge and skills pertaining to evidence based practice and learn how research, analysis of research and evaluation of findings can inform healthcare interventions

Module: 4NH027

Credits: 40

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Walsall Campus

This module sets out to introduce you to a variety of approaches to communication that you might employ in managing interactions and interventions with others in practice. Through the acquisition of evidence based knowledge you will be enabled to develop and maintain effective communication and relationship management skills in accordance with the requirements of The Code (NMC, 2018). The Code expects all nurses to use a range of communication skills and technologies to support person-centred care. You will have the opportunity to explore ways in which you can ensure people receive the information they need in a language and manner that allows them to make informed choices and share decision making.

Module: 4NH028

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Walsall Campus

This module enables you to explore the importance of being self-aware as a health care professional. You will consider reflective practice and its significance to the legal, ethical and professional requirements of your role. You will do this by being encouraged to identify and explore approaches to reflective practice in order to prepare for your lifelong journey of self-reflection as part of your continual professional growth and development.

Module: 5NH025

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Walsall Campus

This module enables you to explore the opportunities and challenges associated with promoting health and wellbeing within a diverse society. During the module you will explore the indices of health and how inequalities in health can influence health outcomes across the lifespan. You will have the opportunity to focus on specific health issues in relation to genomics, health surveillance, screening and health protection as well as being able to explore health promotion within an inter agency context.

Module: 5NH040

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Walsall Campus

This module enables you to explore how evidence underpins care for individuals with specific conditions and co-morbidities. You will critically explore and analyse the evidence in relation to commonly encountered conditions and their impact upon the health and well-being of people with learning disabilities. You will explore professional frameworks that underpin your developing practice as a learning disabilities nurse.

Module: 5NH037

Credits: 40

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Walsall Campus

This module enables you to safely and effectively apply person-centred approaches to interventions for people of all ages in a range of changing health states across diverse settings. During the module you will be introduced to adverse situations in practice and will be enabled to develop your knowledge of pharmacology and pharmacodynamics and how these impact upon interventions used in changing health states.

Module: 5NH027

Credits: 40

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Walsall Campus

This module enables you to further develop your evidence-based knowledge of collaborative working in relation to the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of individualised care in a diverse range of settings. As such the module will enable you to further develop your knowledge of how to assess the complex health needs of individuals and their families or carers. During the module you will explore the principles of effective leadership and their relationship to the coordination and management of care. Your learning in this module will be supported by successful completion of the practice assessment document (PAD).

Module: 6NH069

Credits: 20

Period: 3

Type: Core

Locations: Walsall Campus

This module enables you to advance your skills of mental, physical, cognitive and behavioural health needs assessment and interventions through the exploration of models and approaches to assessing and planning care. The module enables you to focus on specific conditions and safe evidence based responses when caring for the patient with learning disabilities. You will synthesise pharmacology and pharmacodynamics into your ongoing knowledge and skills in relation to safe medication administration. Methods of evaluating the impact of care will be explored .

Module: 6NH070

Credits: 40

Period: 3

Type: Core

Locations: Walsall Campus

This module enables you to independently, consistently and confidently assess plan lead and evaluate safe and effective nursing interventions for people with learning disabilities in a range of settings. During this module you will explore the impact of human factors upon the safety and quality of care and their connections with local and national policies, protocols and guidelines. In the course of these explorations you will have opportunities to consider the scope and limitations of your developing practice and that of others. You will engage in exploring causation of error in healthcare, analysis of influencing factors and strategies to reduce risk.

Module: 6NH062

Credits: 20

Period: 3

Type: Core