4 Year Nursing Degree Programme (BSc Cur) General Nursing

NU1G03 -Nursing in Specialist Services (5 ECTS)

Learning Outcomes

Following completion of this module the student should be able to:

• Discuss the role of nurse in the care of children in hospital and in the community
• Identify and summarise the spectrum of intellectual disabilities, discuss the needs of persons with an intellectual disability with particular reference to self-care, social skills, and health maintenance, and discuss the nursing role in ID care
• Describe the nature of mental distress / illness from social, psychological, spiritual, biological and recovery perspectives
• Describe the impact of mental distress on the person and family
• Outline approaches to working with people who have a mental health problem within the general hospital/community context
• Describe the care of the woman in pregnancy and childbirth - prenatally, intranatally and postnatally

Module Learning Aims

The aim of this module is module is to introduce the student to the theory underpinning the practice of
nursing of client groups in specialist care settings. The module is presented in four units of study, as
follows:

• Unit 1: Childrens Nursing
  
• Unit 2: Intellectual disability
• Unit 3: Mental health/ Distress
  
• Unit 4: Maternity care

Recommended Reading List

Essential Reading

• Dougherty, L., Lister, S.(2004) The Royal Marsden Hospital Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures. 6th Edition. Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust: Blackwell Publishing.
  
• O'Connor Smeltzer, S. and Bare, B. (eds) (2005) Brunner and Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgicalm Nursing. 10th Edition. Philadelphia: Lippincott.

Recommended Reading

• Gates, B.(2007) Fifth Edition. Learning Disabilities Towards Inclusion. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone
  
• Davies R. & Davies A. (2011) Children and Young People’s Nursing, (3rd edn). Hodder Arnold; London.Glasper
  
• A. & Richardson J. (eds) (2010). A textbook of children’s and young people’s nursing, (2nd Edn). Churchill Livingston Elsevier; London.
  
• J. Morrissey, B. Keogh & L. Doyle. (Eds) (2008) Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing: An Irish perspective. Gill & Macmillan: Dublin
  
• Henderson C & Macdonald S. (2004) Mayes Midwifery: a textbook for midwives. Bailliere Tindall
  Johnson R & Taylor W (2006) Skills for Midwifery Practice. Elsevier Churchill Livingstone
  

* Additional readings will be given for each unit of learning.