AC6746 - Nursing Older People with Complex Needs

You will learn by attending face to face lectures and seminars. You will access a range of interactive Online Supported Learning (OSL’s) packages and also have tutor-guided and self-directed independent learning. The strategies adopted during lectures and seminars will include provision of theory and interactive discussion and debate. You will also undertake individual and small group activities. Group work will result in presentation of findings and outputs of activities undertaken. Enquiry-based learning will also be utilised. The module team will lead lectures, facilitate seminars, prepare and monitor online-supported learning activities. Students will be expected to undertake independent learning throughout the module. This will include reading, session preparation and post-session reflections to identify and address ongoing learning needs to develop skills and knowledge. Reading is emphasised; of particular relevance to this module, reading is necessary for you to increase your knowledge in relation to caring for the complex needs of the older person.
Tutor Guided materials will include Online Supported Learning (OSL’s), workbooks and reflective tools. The module team will provide advice on how and when to engage in your Tutor Guided Independent Study.
To maximise your learning and to ensure application to your context-specific practice the module assessment will permit you to choose a topic you are interested in, to study in more detail.

You will obtain support from direct dialogue with academic staff during lectures and seminars, both online and in country. You will utilise peer support during the directed study and independent study periods on the module. You will also have access to a discussion board on Blackboard Ultra, where you can post questions at any point during the module and beyond. This will be monitored regularly by a member of the module team. A group tutorial to support your summative assessment will be provided. You will have access to Northumbria University’s electronic resources to support the development of academic skills; this is aimed at improving your critical thinking and writing. These resources are aimed at improving your critical thinking, reading, and writing. The resources include e-books, e-journals and an array of databases and media outputs. You will be enrolled on Blackboard Ultra, that will provide access to module teaching materials and a reading list. You will be granted membership of the Northumbria University Library (https://library.northumbria.ac.uk/home) that includes a 24/7 service catering for all your learning needs. Library membership will also give you access to academic skills development packages, accessed on-line, called Skills Plus (https://library.northumbria.ac.uk/develop-learning-skills/learning-skills ). In addition, you can access Kaplan library and student support services locally.

All modules at Northumbria include a range of reading materials that students are expected to engage with. Online reading lists (provided after enrolment) give you access to your reading material for your modules. The Library works in partnership with your module tutors to ensure you have access to the material that you need.

By the end of this module you will be able to:

Knowledge & Understanding:
1. Critically analyse the political and global context of ageing, and theories of ageing.
2. Develop a critical understanding of the importance of working within both multidisciplinary and unidisciplinary contexts.
3. Critically examine gerontological assessment skills and competence in clinical application.
Intellectual / Professional skills & abilities:
4. Critically analyse gerontological evidence-based approaches and their applicability to older people across a range of care settings.

Personal Values Attributes (Global / Cultural awareness, Ethics, Curiosity) (PVA):
5. Critically explore personal and societal attitudes, values and beliefs which may impact upon ageing and older people and equip nurses to embed a more positive image of ageing in practice.

Formative assessment
Cohort to be divided into smaller groups. Each group will work together to develop a 10-minute presentation that explains and analyses best-evidence-based approaches to the assessment and management of an element of nursing care for an older person. Students will present this to the group. They will receive feedback and feedforward from faculty and their peers.
MLO 1,2,3,4 & 5

Summative assessment
Your assessment will be 1-hour examination based upon a clinical case study in which you will have access to 4 weeks before the exam. The exam will take place in Kaplan IT lab. You will complete the examination as a word document and then upload it to Blackboard Ultra via Turnitin.
MLO 1,2,3,4 & 5
Written feedback and feedforward will be provided via Blackboard Ultra.

Students must be a practising nurse who is registered with the Singapore Nursing Board

N/A

During this module you will develop knowledge and understanding of the complex needs of older people within the context of health and social care in Singapore. You will develop competence in nursing older people across health and life continua and during significant transitional points: living well, acute illness, intermediate care, frailty, ongoing long-term care, to end-of-life. You will be enabled to deliver safe, effective care by the development of robust clinical decision making through comprehensive evidence-based assessments, including risk.
The module will require you to critically appraise relevant theory, political drivers and empirical research in relation to ageing and gerontological nursing, seeking to explore its application to health and care management to meet the diverse needs of people in later life.