Advanced Clinical Learning - Learning Disability Field

Code

NURS4200

School

Nursing

Level

4

Credits

20

Semesters

Autumn UK

Summary

This course considers:

• The organisation of services to people who have a learning disability and their caregivers in relation to local, national and global policy across the lifespan.
• The nurses’ role in the collaborative, comprehensive assessment and subsequent person centred planning of care to people who have a learning disability adopting a systemic approach to the formulation of actions.
• The nurses’ collaborative role in the promotion of health with people who have a learning disability and their caregivers across the lifespan.
• The support and management of multidisciplinary structures to ensure equality of access and care to people who have a learning disability and their caregivers using mainstream health and social care services. 
• Value difference and respect the rights of people who have a learning disability and their caregivers across the lifespan.
• Support wellbeing by promoting discovery and opportunities for inclusion.
• The impact of the current structure of service provision to people who have a learning disability and their caregivers across the lifespan.
• The development of values that underpin a person centred approach to care, including working with people who have a learning disability to discover a place in their communities.

Target Students

MSc Nursing (Graduate Entry Nursing - Learning Disability Field)Students

Classes

Total hours 220 105 Theory Hours which consists of directed learning, self-directed learning, lectures and seminars 115 Clinical Learning Hours

Assessment

• 100% Assignment: 3,000 word written assignment
• Exam (0-hour-40-minute): Medicine calculation exam (Requirement of Professional Body).

Assessed by end of designated period

Educational Aims

Learning Outcomes

Critically analyse, synthesise and evaluate the efficacy, implementation and ethics of health and social care interventions, legislation and care provision to people who have a learning disability and their caregivers across the lifespan.

Critically examine interventions that facilitate access to ordinary lives, including health promotion, therapeutic approaches, advocacy, capacity assessment, demonstrating an ability to critically evaluate advances in the evidence base of learning disability nursing.

Lead, manage and co-ordinate the delivery of person centred learning disability care through the application of the knowledge of physiology and genetics as they relate to learning disability, in addition to psychological and social theories.

Demonstrate advanced communication skills using augmented approaches to facilitate understanding and the delivery of high quality service to people, within a multidisciplinary context, who have a learning disability and their caregivers across the lifespan.

Develop the political awareness needed to influence learning disability practice, policy and legislation by developing a clear synthesis of learning disability provision including both health and social care processes.

Demonstrate the knowledge and awareness necessary to challenge the discrimination, stigma and hate crimes faced by people who have a learning disability and their caregivers.

Conveners

• Mr David Charnock