ADULT NURSING AND MENTAL HEALTH NURSING: PRE-INTERVIEW INFORMATION

Module Aims:

This module aims to introduce nursing students to academic skills for learning, and to the professional ethical and legal principles that underpin accountable, evidence based professional practice. As a result of participation in this module, the student will have begun to define and develop the skills involved in addressing the following:

• What literacy and technological knowledge and skills required to underpin academic learning?

You will be able to answer the following questions:

• How do the professional standards as outlined in the Code (NMC, 2018) and the legal and regulatory frameworks in England, impact on professional nursing practice?
• What are the obligations of the nursing student in practice as a proactive and engaged learner?

Module Aims:

The aim of this module is to introduce students to the fundamental principles of basic nursing skills, normal anatomy and physiology of key body systems to enable them to practise safe and effective care underpinned by the theory and science of contemporary clinical nursing practice. As a result of participation in this module, the student will have begun to define and develop the skills involved in addressing the following:

• What literacy, technological knowledge and skills are required to underpin the fundamentals of nursing science and practice?

You will also be able to answer the following questions:

• Using core skills and knowledge of communication, how do students engage with patients and services users to, deliver safe and effective care address the whole person’s care where mental ill health and physical ill health coexist?
• What are the obligations of the student in practice to enable safe medicines administration to support key body systems whilst understanding the pathophysiological basis and clinical presentations?

The module seeks to introduce students to the foundational principles of health and the promotion of wellbeing. It aims to support students to conceptualize health and how this is influenced by the socio-economic and cultural contexts in which people live. Students will search population data, read health promotion literature and explore contemporary accounts of health, ill health, and health and social care. The module will provide students with key insights into the nature of health and the nursing role in assessing health and promoting wellbeing and recovery.