| CODE | NUR0228 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Aspects of Care Delivery | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 00 - Mod Pre-Tert, Foundation, Proficiency & DegreePlus | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 4 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Nursing | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit provides an introduction to various aspects that a health care professional needs to understand in order to develop optimal care to clients. The emphasis is on assessment skills and processes. The use of information technology in care delivery is highlighted comprehensively. Maintaining health and safety within the delivery of care is also addressed, as is the topic of assessing clients as part of care delivery. Study-Unit Aims: The aims of this study-unit are: - To enable students to familiarize themselves with providing care from a systematic point of view, and hence familiarize themselves with the need of involving the systems around the client receiving their care', in assessing as a primary central step of care delivery; - To help students understand the importance of using information technology in health care and give them the opportunity to gain basic skills in such usage; - To assist students in understanding health and safety procedures within an environment for care delivery and to enable them to participate in maintaining these procedures; - To address the principles of best practice in assessing clients as part of the care delivery; and - To address the client service and healthcare teamwork in order to provide holistic care to clients at an advanced level in a variety of healthcare settings. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Discuss the role of technology and the various systems used in health care delivery, the use of information technology and the need to learn computer systems; - Demonstrate knowledge about working in an environment that is safe and promote well being, both for the patient and the health care team; - Discuss basic assessment of the health status and healthcare needs of client/s; and - Discuss bio-psychosocial assessment data with other members of the healthcare team as required to support best holistic practice in care delivery. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Deliver care from a systematic approach, and include the potential systems of assessment within the provision of care to a particular client; - Make use of basic IT systems in the delivery of care with an emphasis on assessment and monitoring; - Make use of technological platforms to improve patient safety; - Use health and safety principles in the workplace; and - Use a range of assessment skills relevant to the clinical environment to gather information about the client's plan of care. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts: - Crouch, A. and Meurier, C. (eds) (2005) Health Assessment. Blackwell Publishing:UK. - Thede, Linda, Q., Sewell, & Jeanne, P. (2010) Informatics and Nursing: competences and applications. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Supplementary Readings: - De Vito J., (1994) Human Communication. New York: Harper Collins College Publishers, 6th edition. - Morrison P. and Burnard P., (1997) Caring and Communication. London: McMillan Press Ltd., 2nd edition. - Nelson-Jones, R. (1992) Lifeskills Helping. USA: Thomas Learning. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture and Independent Study | ||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Dorianne Coleiro |
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