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- UCAS course code
- B730
- UCAS institution code
- M20
Bachelor of Nursing (BNurs)
BNurs Children's Nursing
Develop the theoretical and practical skills you need to register as a nurse specialising in children's care through our three-year course.
Duration: 3 years/4 years for MNurs
Year of entry: 2025
UCAS course code: B730 / Institution code: M20
- Key features:
Scholarships available
- Typical A-level offer: BBB including specific subjects
- Typical contextual A-level offer: Course not eligible for contextual offer
- Refugee/care-experienced offer: Course not eligible for contextual offer
- Typical International Baccalaureate offer: 32 points overall with 5,5,5 at HL, including specific requirements
Course unit details:
Tissue Viability Nursing and Infection Prevention
| Unit code | NURS23121 |
|---|---|
| Credit rating | 10 |
| Unit level | Level 5 |
| Teaching period(s) | Semester 1 |
| Available as a free choice unit? | No |
Overview
This is a year 2 ‘discovery unit’ available to all students as a choice from a menu of options. Based on contemporary guidance this unit introduces students to the principles of tissue viability, considers the management of complex wounds and explores the role of the nurse and the organisation in the prevention of healthcare associated infection (HCAI).
Aims
This unit aims to :
- Enhance students’ ability to identify the factors that contribute to Healthcare Associated Infections (HCAIs) and complex wounds
- Equip students with the skills to assess tissue viability and to plan and deliver evidence based care to patients at risk of, or who have acquired a HCAI or developed a complex wound
- Facilitate students’ ability to locate and appraise the evidence base for practice in the prevention and management of HCAI and complex wounds
Learning outcomes
Each LO is linked to the NMC (2018) Standards of proficiency for registered nurses.
Teaching and learning methods
This unit is part of a menu of options (Discovery Units) available to all students on this programme. It is important to note that the overall B.Nurs (2019) programme design ensures that students have the opportunity to meet the proficiencies aligned to the learning outcomes for this unit elsewhere in the programme. Therefore students who choose other available options will not miss out on the opportunity to achieve the programme learning outcomes that align to this unit. The intended learning outcomes for this unit have been developed to align directly to a number of NMC (2018) standards of proficiency in order to support student’s choice to further develop these proficiencies.
Nursing practice relating to tissue viability and HCAI is based on an extensive and growing body of evidence that is fundamental to all settings in which nursing care takes place. Many complex wounds and HCAIs are the result of a failure to provide harm free care. The registered nurse, therefore, requires an appreciation of the evidence base for both aspects of practice in order to achieve the aims of the unit and deliver evidence-based harm free care. The unit aims and learning outcomes recognise the range and variety of patient situations in which both tissue viability and HCAI must be considered by the nurse. The unit content and assessment enables the student to apply general principles to specific clinical situations.
The aims and learning outcomes for this unit focus on the following 2 central themes:
a) The aetiological and pathological factors that lead to a patients risk of, or the acquisition of HCAI or a complex wound
b) The evidence based nursing management of HCAI or a complex wound and the impact of this care on the patient’s bio-psychosocial health.
The teaching and learning methods used to help students achieve the aims and outcomes for this unit include the use of the seminars and tutorials. During seminars, key principles from lectures will be employed to support students in applying theoretical perspectives and evidence to situations that they have met in practice. Students will be provided with access to key evidence and literature through the VLE system.
Assessment
The assessment task is an open book exam based on case studies that concerns patients who are at risk of, or has acquired, either a HCAI or a complex wound. This will enable students to articulate the assessment and nursing management of a specific patient with reference to the evidence.
Knowledge and understanding
- Identify the factors that contribute to Healthcare Associated Infections (HCAIs) and complex wounds (1.7, 1.8, 2.1, 2.4, 2.11, 2.12, 3.2, 3.8, 3.11)
- Demonstrate an understanding of the features of and signs and symptoms associated with HCAI and complex wounds (1.7, 1.8, 3.2, 3.9)
- Appreciate the behavioural and organisational factors that impact on the prevention and nursing management of HCAI and complex wounds (1.3, 4.3, 4.6, 5.2, 5.3, 7.5)
Intellectual skills
- Source and apply the evidence that underpins the prevention and nursing management of HCAI and complex wounds (1.7, 1.8, 3.2, 3.8, 3.9, 3.11)
- Debate relevant policy and legislation that impacts on harm-free care delivery (1.2, 6.1 6.3, 6.6, 6.8)
- Apply information learnt in one setting to different clinical environments (4.17, 7.8, 7.10).
Practical skills
- Use risk assessment tools to assess patients, while recognising their strengths and limitations (1.8, 1.16, 3.8, 5.8, 6.5, 6.10, 7.11)
- Complete a range of investigations to assist in the diagnosis and treatment of HCAI and complex wounds (3.5, 3.9, 3.10)
- Undertake procedures for planning, provision and management of person-centred nursing care using evidence based best practice approaches (4.1., 4.2, 4.4, 4.6, 4.7).
- Demonstrate communication strategies that recognise the impact of HCAI and complex wounds on the bio-psychosocial health of the individual (1.9, 1.12, 1.13, 1.16, 3.4, 3.5, 7.7).
Transferable skills and personal qualities
- Demonstrate research and enquiry skills by accessing, analysing and applying evidence and other literature (1.7, 1.8, 1.18, 1.20, 3.3)
- Take responsibility for personal learning and completion of learning tasks (1.1, 1.19)
- Reflect on own role in delivering harm free care (1.14, 1.17, 5.8, 5.10)
Assessment methods
Open book exam (case study questions)
Feedback methods
Students will have the opportunity to attend formative seminars prior to the summative assessment. Other feedback opportunities will also be available in class and online discussion boards. Online feedback is provided in Grademark. Provisional feedback based on internal marking will be made available prior to the Exam Board on the basis that these marks are yet to be ratified at the Exam Board and therefore may be subject to change. A standard feedback mechanism in Grademark is utilised across all undergraduate programmes within the School which provides detailed and constructive feedback on each component and aspect of assessment and identifies areas of strength and those aspects which could be enhanced.
Student feedback is obtained through open discussion forums on the VLE system, in class discussions, via formal University unit evaluation forms and also qualitative, in house evaluations at the end of the unit.
Recommended reading
Study hours
| Scheduled activity hours | |
|---|---|
| Seminars | 14 |
| Tutorials | 12 |
| Independent study hours | |
|---|---|
| Independent study | 74 |
Teaching staff
| Staff member | Role |
|---|---|
| Ljubisa Paden | Unit coordinator |