Co-ordinating Long Term Care in Partnership (MH Field GEN)

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Critically examine the interpersonal, clinical reasoning, diagnostic and decision-making skills required for the assessment, planning and delivery of care for a person with complex mental health care needs.
• Explore the role of the nurse in working in partnership with people to empower, support and promote the health and well-being of individuals with a long-term condition.
• Articulate and analyse strategies employed by nurses to manage risk and promote a safe and effective health care environment.
• Analyse and evaluate 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 critically analyse how a nurse may respond.

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)

Content for MENTAL HEALTH field:

The person with dementia (i.e. Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia - BPSD)

The person with bi-polar disorder

Functional mental health disorders in old age

Physical health care of people with mental health problems

Medicines management

Working with families and carers

Promoting mental health wellbeing

Cognitive behavioural (CBT) competence framework for depression and anxiety

Self-management strategies (i.e. Wellness Recovery Action Planning - WRAP)

Recovery focussed mental health nursing

The person who experiences trauma

The person with co-existing mental illness and substance misuse problems (dual diagnosis)

Early intervention in psychosis

Solution-focused approaches

Motivational interviewing approaches

Nurse's role in the administration of ECT

Forensic mental health care

Power issues in professional-service user relationship

Responding to diversity (i.e. gender, older people, interpreter requirements, learning disability)

Caring for yourself

Skills:

De-escalation, safe holding and restraint

Managing difficult conversations

Care after death

Syringe drivers

Nasogastric tubes and enteral nutrition

Catheterisation and catheter management

Teaching and learning methods

Guided independent study

Lectures

Seminars

Resources & Reading list

Textbooks

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

Norman I & Ryrie I (2018). The Art and Science of Mental Health Nursing. Maidenhead: Open University Press.

Assessment strategy

Written assignment (100%)

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