Module Information
Module Identifier
NU20420
Module Title
Complex Field Specific Nursing (Mental Health)
Academic Year
2025/2026
Co-ordinator
Semester
Semester 2
Co-Requisite
Reading List
Other Staff
Course Delivery
Assessment
| Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
|---|---|---|
| Semester Assessment | Written Essay Mental Health Written essay 2500 Words | 60% |
| Semester Assessment | Poster Presentation Mental Health Poster presentation 20 Minutes | 40% |
| Supplementary Assessment | Written Essay Mental Health Written essay. Students must pass each element at 40% and retake failed elements of the module assessment. 2500 Words | 60% |
| Supplementary Assessment | Poster Presentation Mental Health Poster presentation. Students must pass each element at 40% and retake failed elements of the module assessment. 20 Minutes | 40% |
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module students should be able to:
illustrate the key moral and ethical principles underpinning complex care decisions
examine key local and national policies underpinning complex care
outline theories used to explain the grieving process
explore local and national support for individuals and significant others facing adaption, death and dying
reflect on own experience of grief, loss and bereavement and explore coping strategies
develop a person centred plan of care to holistically manage complex symptoms arising from a life limiting condition
Brief description
We will introduce the key skills associated with caring for service users with a complex life limiting condition meeting both physical and emotional needs. Field specific conditions will be explored, underlying pathophysiology, disease processes and symptom management. Understanding care policy informing practice and legal, moral, ethical principles underpinning care planning and delivery. Death and dying will be explored as well as key theories associated with the grieving process and societal/cultural norms.
Content
Key concepts, theories and evidence including:
Introduction to services supporting individuals and their families in the bereavement process
Exploring holistic patient centred complex care
Applying pertinent principles of law and ethics
Reflective practice
Death and dying
Understanding and adapting to complex and/or life limiting conditions
Common conditions associated with field of practice
Diagnostics
Symptom management
In addition, the module will also focus on further supporting students for clinical practice placements, focusing on:
clinical skill development/maintenance
maintenance of All Wales passports (e.g. Manual Handling/Violence and Aggression) – updating when required
clinical learning requirements
practice supervision
clinical assessments
PAD use/evidencing work-based achievements
Introduction to services supporting individuals and their families in the bereavement process
Exploring holistic patient centred complex care
Applying pertinent principles of law and ethics
Reflective practice
Death and dying
Understanding and adapting to complex and/or life limiting conditions
Common conditions associated with field of practice
Diagnostics
Symptom management
In addition, the module will also focus on further supporting students for clinical practice placements, focusing on:
clinical skill development/maintenance
maintenance of All Wales passports (e.g. Manual Handling/Violence and Aggression) – updating when required
clinical learning requirements
practice supervision
clinical assessments
PAD use/evidencing work-based achievements
Module Skills
| Skills Type | Skills details |
|---|---|
| Adaptability and resilience | This module will build on students’ understanding of the importance of delivering person centred care by further developing their knowledge of wider factors relating to healthcare, which may require adaptable approaches. Cultural and societal norms differ, requiring students to examine their role in caring for patients in complex situations, including patients with age related conditions and end of life care across a wide age span. Students will be encouraged to re-visit self-care strategies |
| Co-ordinating with others | In this module, students will be further encouraged to explore professional liaison and teamworking, reflecting on the role of differing multidisciplinary members in the care delivery process, especially in relation to complex care and end of life situations. Students will be encouraged to consider how professional referrals, networks and collaborations can be made in order secure care provisions. |
| Creative Problem Solving | During this module, students will be introduced to the concept of complex field specific nursing, specifically exploring issues regarding nursing adults.Students will be challenged to think about the concept of caring, and what this means regarding symptom management, disease processes and nursing a wide age range of patients who may have life-limiting conditions. Students will continue to enhance their problem-solving skills by considering these issues through hearing directly from service user |
| Critical and analytical thinking | In complex clinical situations,students will need to develop high level analytical thinking skills in order to deliver best practice, and this module will continue to support students’ development in this area.Through lectures, seminars and practicals,students will build on their depth of knowledge and analytical abilities required of an adult field nurse in complex situations in order to deliver high quality, safe care. Students will be required to appraise evidence/research and health policy |
| Digital capability | This module will require the students to continue to use/and learn how to: use blackboard/pebble-pad access lectures remotely and participate accordingly know how to search electronic databases use the library’s electronic catalogue submit work electronically design an academic poster |
| Professional communication | Students will be required to build on their communication skills within this module, as they will be expected to continue to actively participate in discussions and debates.Students will demonstrate their oral,written communication skills by participating in relevant learning activities throughout the module.Through an academic poster presentation, students will be encouraged to present clinical information in a different format, thus developing their communication and presentation abilities |
| Real world sense | Both theory and practice are equally weighted within nursing curricula, meaning that it is important that classroom subjects are applicable within the practicable nature of the clinical environment, thus giving the taught component a real-world sense. All taught subjects will therefore relate back to clinical practice. Year 2, students can bring their clinical learning back to the classroom, and through discussion of experiences and observations, students can further enable their development |
| Reflection | Reflection will continue to be promoted within this module, and students will be encouraged to actively participate within their clinical supervision groups; as the module progresses, students will though be encouraged to take control on their reflective groups and guide reflective discussions autonomously. In addition, students will be expected to complete a reflective essay, which reflects on the caring for a patient with a life-limiting condition. |
| Subject Specific Skills | Students will further develop their knowledge and skills in: professional nursing practice in relation to complex field specific nursing; understanding how care/health policies influence practice; identifying how societal and cultural concepts influences health; nursing patients with life-limiting conditions; disease processes; symptom management end of life care; understanding death and dying, and explore the grieving process ; discussing how legal, moral, ethical decisions, holistic |
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 5