4 Year Nursing Degree Programme (BSc Cur) General Nursing

NU1G05 -Introduciton to General Nursing (5 ECTS)

Learning Outcomes

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

Unit 1: Hygiene and infection control

• Identify the principles of personal and environmental hygiene, including hospital hygiene
  
• Discuss the role and responsibilities of the nurse in relation to infection control.

Unit 2: Nursing Care I

• Outline the principles of assessment of cardiovascular and respiratory function, and apply the principles of assessment, care planning and evaluation of care in relation to the observation and recording of vital signs,
  
• Describe the nursing care of patients with alterations in temperature control.

Unit 3: Nursing Care II

• Outline the principles of assessment of nutritional and elimination needs
  
• Apply the principles of assessment, care planning and evaluation of care in relation to meeting an individual’s nutritional and elimination needs,
  
• Outline and identify the nursing care of patients with altered hydration and nutrition,
  

Unit 4: Nursing Care III

• Identify and describe the assessment and nursing care of patients with alterations in mobility.
  
• Describe the principles of patient hygiene and skin /pressure ulser care.
  

Unit 5: Nursing Care IV

• Outline and identify the principles underlying nursing care of the unconscious patient.
  
• Outline and reflect on the physical and psychosocial management of a patient in pain.
  

Unit 6: Nursing Care V

• Describe the principles of pre and post operative care.
  
• Describe the process of patient admission and discharge in the general practice setting.

Module Learning Aims

The aim of this module is to introduce the student to the principles and practice of general nursing. The
focus is to provide the student with the necessary knowledge in order to participate in the delivery of
care in the general practice setting. The module is presented in six units of study.

• Unit 1: Hygiene and infection control (3 hours)
• Unit 2: Nursing Care I: CVS, respiratory function & thermoregulation (9 hours)
• Unit 3: Nursing Care II: Hydration, nutrition and elimination (8 hours)
• Unit 4: Nursing care III (7 hours)
• Unit 5: Nursing care IV (6 hours)
• Unit 6: Nursing care V (7 hours)

Recommended Reading List

Essential Reading

• Brady AM., McCabe C. & McCann M. (Eds) (2014) Fundamentals of Medical-Surgical Nursing A Systems Approach Wiley Blackwell, Oxford.
  
• Dougherty, L., & Lister, S. & West-Oram A.(Eds.). (20151) The Royal Marsden Hospital Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures (9 8th edn.). Wiley-Blackwell,Chichester
  
• Hinkle, J., & Cheever , K. (Eds.). (2014) Brunner & Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing (13th edn.). Wolters Kluwer Health/ Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia.

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