NMHS10450 Clinical Practice 1 (G)

Academic Year 2023/2024

This module will provide the student with initial patient contact in the clinical setting. The module is designed to facilitate the learning of essential clinical skills and the attainment of standards related to the domains of competence assessment framework. Prior to the clinical placement, students will be provided with an opportunity to develop clinical skills in the interpersonal and psychomotor domains of learning in the clinical skills laboratory and they will be permitted to apply some essential skills in the clinical setting. Clinical placements are also designed to facilitate the integration of knowledge and practice. A component of this module requires students to attend mandatory interpersonal skills workshops and lectures. This theoretical component facilitates students to reflect on, and identify, their own strengths and weaknesses when communicating. It enhances and reinforces the learning of effective interpersonal strategies for communication. The credit load of the module reflects the student effort hours required to achieve the learning outcomes. The module is part of the essential clinical requirements for professional registration. The student must pass all individual clinical placements before a pass grade can be awarded for the module. Students must complete all Stage 1 clinical hours before progressing to Stage 2.

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Curricular information is subject to change

Learning Outcomes:

• Attain predetermined standards and demonstrate psychomotor skills related to the domains of competence
• Identify key ethical and professional issues related to person-centred care
• Identify the elements of assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing care and how
care is organised and managed
• Identify strengths and weaknesses of personal communication techniques and apply professional
communication skills to practice
• Identify strategies to enhance own clinical learning using feedback given

Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

4
Placement/Work Experience

375
Total

379
Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
Key teaching and learning approaches used in the module may include: active/task-based learning; peer/multidisciplinary team learning, reflective learning; learning during the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing care for children and their families and case-based learning. 
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations
Learning Recommendations:

This module will provide the student with initial patient contact in the clinical setting. The module is designed to facilitate the learning of essential clinical skills and the attainment of standards related to the domains of competence assessment framework. Prior to the clinical placement, students will be provided with an opportunity to develop clinical skills in the interpersonal and psychomotor domains of learning in the clinical skills laboratory and they will be permitted to apply some essential skills in the clinical setting. Clinical placements are also designed to facilitate the integration of knowledge and practice. A component of this module requires students to attend mandatory interpersonal skills workshops and lectures. This theoretical component facilitates students to reflect on, and identify, their own strengths and weaknesses when communicating. It enhances and reinforces the learning of effective interpersonal strategies for communication. The credit load of the module reflects the student effort hours required to achieve the learning outcomes. The module is part of the essential clinical requirements for professional registration. The student must pass all individual clinical placements before a pass grade can be awarded for the module. Students must complete all Stage 1 clinical hours before progressing to Stage 2.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 
Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Open Book Exam Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade
Portfolio: Professional portfolio and Continuous assessment based on the National Competency Clinical Assessment Document (NCAD); Coursework (End of Trimester) n/a Graded Yes

100

Carry forward of passed components
No
 
Resit In Terminal Exam
Summer No
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 
Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Self-assessment activities

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Not yet recorded.

Name Role
Dr Carmel Davies Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Dr John Gilmore Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Ms Marie Meskell Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Dr Catherine Redmond Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Timetabling information is displayed only for guidance purposes, relates to the current Academic Year only and is subject to change.
 

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