Learning Outcomes:

On completion: the student will be able to
• Identify codes of professional conduct and standards for nursing practice as determined by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland.
• Discuss the legal and ethical concepts that inform nursing practice and provide examples of how ethical principles, analysis and decision making are applied in nursing practice.
• Explore values and concepts fundamental to nursing and identify how these values and concepts are expressed and applied in nursing practice.
• Summarize the main principles of two theoretical approaches to nursing and discuss how these theories strengthen and support nurses in the implementation of a holistic approach to the nursing process
• Describe how use of a professional practice model, a nursing assessment framework and standardised nursing terminology impact on nurses’ control over their practice and on their provision of fundamental nursing care.
• Utilise theory to exemplify high quality listening, attending and responding when interacting with others.
• Reflect on the quality of their interpersonal relationships developed while on clinical placement. Become aware of own strengths and weaknesses when communicating with patients/clients.
• Build on their interpersonal skills which were introduced in semester one. Utilise theory to develop high quality listening, attending and responding when interacting with others.

Student Effort Type	Hours
Lectures	24
Small Group	2
Specified Learning Activities	12
Autonomous Student Learning	85
Online Learning	2
Total	125

Not applicable to this module.

Not applicable to this module.
 

Assessment Strategy  

Description	Timing		Component Scale		% of Final Grade
Assignment: Written assignment Unit 1&2	Unspecified	n/a	Graded	No	60
Attendance: Partcipation in Interpersonal Skills Workshops- Unit 3	Throughout the Trimester	n/a	Graded	No	10
Continuous Assessment: Photo Assignment	Varies over the Trimester	n/a	Graded	No	30

 

Resit In	Terminal Exam
Autumn	No

• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Online automated feedback

Group and individual feedback to students from continious assessment prior to submission of final assessment.

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Doenges, M.E., Moorhouse, M.F. & Murr, A.C. (2019), Nursing care plans: guidelines for individualizing client care across the life span, 10th; ed F.A. Davis, Philadelphia.

Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI) (2015) Scope of Nursing and Midwifery Practice Framework, Dublin: NMBI. Available at: https://www.nmbi.ie/Standards-Guidance/Scope-of-Practice

Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI) (2021) Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics for Registered Nurses, Dublin: NMBI. Available at: https://www.nmbi.ie/Standards-Guidance/Code

Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI) (2013) Guidance to Nurses and Midwives on Social Media and Social Networking, NMBI: Dublin. Available at: https://www.nmbi.ie/nmbi/media/NMBI/Publications/Guidance-to-Nurses-Midwives-on-Social-Media-Social-Networking.


Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (2015) Recording Clinical Practice Guidance. NMBI: Dublin https://www.nmbi.ie/Standards-Guidance/More-Standards-Guidance/Recording-Clinical-Practice

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Murphy, F., Williams, A. & Pridmore, J.A.( 2010), "Nursing models and contemporary nursing 1: their development, uses and limitations", Nursing times, 106, (23), pp. 18.

Peate, I. . & Wilde, K. (2018) Nursing Practice : Knowledge and Care, John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, ProQuest Ebook Central,


Pridmore, J.A., Murphy, F. & Williams, A. (2010), "Nursing models and contemporary nursing 2: can they raise standards of care?", Nursing times, 106, (24), pp. 22.

Smith, M.C., Gullett, D.L. & Parker, M.E. (2020), Nursing theories and nursing practice, Fifth;5; edn, F.A. Davis Company, Philadelphia, PA.

Smith, F. (1995) Children’s Nursing in Practice: The Nottingham Model Cambridge: University Press.

Slatyer, S., Coventry, L.L., Twigg, D. & Davis, S. (2016), "Professional practice models for nursing: a review of the literature and synthesis of key components", Journal of Nursing Management, 24, (2), pp. 139-150

Name	Role
Dr Carmel Davies	Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Dr Ann Donohoe	Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Dr Lisa Rogers	Lecturer / Co-Lecturer

Spring
Lecture	Offering 1	Week(s) - 24	Fri 11:00 - 12:50
Lecture	Offering 1	Week(s) - 25	Fri 11:00 - 12:50
Lecture	Offering 1	Week(s) - 24, 25, 26, 27	Mon 09:00 - 10:50
Lecture	Offering 1	Week(s) - 24, 25, 26, 27	Tues 09:00 - 10:50
Workshop	Offering 1	Week(s) - 24, 25, 26, 27	Wed 11:00 - 12:50
Spring