Co-ordinating Long Term Care in Partnership (Adult Field)

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Analyse strategies employed by nurses to manage risk and promote a safe and effective health care environment.
• Debate strategies that may be used to coordinate the care of people with long-term care needs across different settings
• Reflect on the lived experience of the person living with long term care needs, and analyse how a nurse may respond.
• Explain how nurses work in partnership with people to empower, support and promote the health and well-being of individuals with a long-term condition.

Content for ALL fields:

Collaborative / shared decision making.

Positive risk taking and living with risk.

Supported self management (including use of digital technologies in promoting self-management and sustaining supportive networks).

Technological dependency.

Integrated care, multidisciplinary and multiagency team working.

Monitoring and co-ordinating care (including use of technology and data).

Categorical and non-categorical approaches to the care of individuals with a long-term conditions and disabilities.

Health economics and long-term partnership care

Medicines Management: (Auditing and monitoring medicines management; storage; legal and professional issues in medicines management practice; Concordance)

ADULT Field Specific Content:

The following will be explored in more depth in relation to the person with a long-term condition:

The experience of living with a long-term condition.

Co-ordinating care of people with single LTC and multi-comorbidities.

Risk management – living with risk and adapting to changing health.

The use of digital technologies including tele monitoring and home ventilation

Role of family, carers and the importance of supportive networks (incl. assisted based community development).

Discharge planning

Skills:

Managing difficult conversations

Nasogastric tubes and Enteral nutrition

Catheterisation and catheter management

Care after death

Syringe Drivers

De-escalation, safe holding and restraint

Teaching and learning methods

Lectures

Field/DF specific seminars

Skills sessions

Online/blended learning

Resources & Reading list

Textbooks

Snoddon J (2010). Case Management of Long Term Conditions: Principles and Practice for Nurses. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell.

Carrier J (2016). Managing Long term conditions and chronic illness in primary care: A guide to good practice. Abingdon: Routledge.

Meerabeau L and Wright K (2011). Long term conditions:nursing care and management. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.

Nicol J (2015). Nursing adults with long term conditions. London: Sage.

Goodman B & Clemow R (2010). Nursing and Collaborative Practice. Exeter: Learning Matters Ltd.

Assessment strategy

Building on the knowledge gained within this module, the summative assessment will further your skills in using the evidence base to consider how a nurse can effectively empower a person living with a long-term condition

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat Information

Repeat type: External