Managing Acute Changes in Health Status (MH field GEN)

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Evaluate the evidence base which supports nursing responses to acute changes in health status
• Critically discuss the knowledge and skills necessary to undertake a prioritised assessment of people who are experiencing an acute change in health status
• Analyse how clinical judgement and decision making skills inform the management of nursing care
• Critically discuss the principles, purposes and different types of bio-psycho-social assessment undertaken with people with common mental health disorders.
• Explore how the nurse may identify, prioritise and respond to risk factors that may lead to deterioration in health status

Content for ALL Fields:

Clinical judgement & decision making

Responding to mental and emotional distress including agitation, aggression and challenging behaviour

Responding to self-harm and or suicidal ideation

Recognising and responding to acute deterioration in physical health status (e.g. sepsis)

Breaking significant news

Sudden and / or traumatic death

Ethical and legal issues in acute care: DNACPR, DOLS

Managing risks to vulnerable groups with acute health care needs (e.g. Learning Disability)

Human Factors: Safety culture, Debriefing

Medicines Management: Safe medicine use. (e.g. drug interactions / reactions including anaphylaxis; recreational drugs; using technology to improve medicines safety; forms of prescribing including PGD)

ENGAGEMENT AND ASSESSMENT IN MENTAL HEALTH RECOVERY

The nature of mental health

Explanatory models of mental disorder (ie. biopsychosocial model)

Classification of mental disorder

Recovery in mental health care

Assessment in mental health care (i.e. information gathering)

Behavioural change models (i.e. for goal/intervention identification)

Use of standardised assessment tools

Types of anxiety disorder and mood disorder

MANAGING ACUTE HEALTH NEEDS:

Mental health and the law

Care planning

Admission and discharge planning

Admission of a person in acute distress

Managing risk of self-harm and suicide

Managing risk of violence and aggression

Engagement and observation of people at risk

Psychopharmacology

Psychotropic medication in practice

The person experiencing psychosis

The person with a personality disorder

The person with an eating disorder

Managing mental health crisis

Skills:

Taking a structured history

Venepuncture and cannulation

Physical assessment skills

Mental Health assessment

Therapeutic communication skills

Airway skills and supporting the patient at risk

BLS Update

Responding to physiological deterioration

ECG

Teaching and learning methods

Guided independent study

Lectures

Seminars

Resources & Reading list

Textbooks

Williamson T & Daw R (2013). Law, Values and Practice in Mental Health Nursing. Maidenhead: Open University Press.

Wycraft N (2015). Assessment and Care Planning in Mental Health. Maidenhead: Open University Press.

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

Jarvis C (2012). Physical examination & health assessment. Philadelphia / London: Saunders.

Nash M (2014). Physical Health and Well-being in Mental Health Nursing: Clinical Skills for Practice. Maidenhead: Open University Press.

Assessment strategy

Both summative components must be passed.

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