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Need help with learning outcomes- please.

Discussion in 'Clinical Skills Assessment, OSCE & VIVA' started by boxopener1, Aug 2, 2011.

  1. boxopener1 New Member

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    Hello everyone,

    Im really stuck on my learning outcomes, im not sure if anyone would be kind enough to help as im doing childrens nursing, in my second year on a general medical ward where theres kids with diabetes, cystic fibrosis, irritable bowel, disease, chrons and colitis.

    1) Undertake and document a comphrehensive, systematic and accurate nursing assessment of the physical, psychologial, social and spiritual needs of patient, clients, and carers. Collect data through intrepretation, observation and measurement. Use assessment strategies and tools whcih are approproaite for the chiild and family. Particiapte in intepreting results of assessment. involve children, their families and memebrs of health care team in assessment process.

    2) Formulate and document a plan of nursing care, where possible in partnership with patients, clients, their carers and family and friends, within a framework of informed consent, identify care needs and holistic needs based upon assessment. identify with support realistic goials and time scales for intervnetions, nwegotiate and agree nursing interventions based one vidence and best practice eith childrena nd families.

    3) Based on the best available evidence, apply knowledge anbd an appropriate repertoire of skills indicative of safe nursing practice, particpate appproriately in rapidly changing/crisis situations, adhere to rpinciples of infection control, particpate ind elivering planned care, particpate in adpating nursing interventons, identify examples of factors which infleunce care delivery,. identify care prioroties of child and family.

    4) Evaluate and document the outcomes of nursing and other interventions, particpate with kids, families in reveiwing, monitoring and evelauting progress, provide accurate and rleevant information to approproiate people regharding individuals childs progress, revie and record individual childs progress, paroiticpate in revising plans in accordance with ongoing changes.

    5) Demonstrate sound clinical judgement across a range of differing professional and care delivery contexts, identofy approproiate evidence that can be used to individualise interventions. Identify changes ina child or familys situation and take approprpaiote action. Eplain why interventions are adapated to meet changing needs and circumstances.

    6) Delegate duties to others, as appropriate, ensuring that they are supervised and monitores, demonstrae supportive attitude to colleagues, make a vlaid suggestion about hwo care could be co-oridinated for a child and family or a groupo of childrena nd families.

    7) Enhance the professional developmet and safe pratcice of others through peer support, leadership, supervision, and teaching, contribite to an environment which is conductive to professional developmenmt, pariticpate in interprofessional teaching, act as a positive role model.


    I know this looks like quite a lot, its horrible, some of the outcomes seem to be aimed at third year students, its the wording that the problem.
    boxopener1, Aug 2, 2011
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  2. Paddington Active Member

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    Sorry, I have no advice to offer but some of those learning outcomes (LO) are horrendously long. There is 7 elements alone to LO 3. My midwifery performance indicators for year two aren't as long as yours. I am sure someone will be along to help with this hun.
    Paddington, Aug 2, 2011
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  3. GrowingRoses Welfare Moderator

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    Hi, I studied children's nursing before this, is this for you CAP Doc- do you need to give examples etc?

    Basically LO is asking you to undertake a full assessment so it would be like your admission assessment on the ward. It sounds wordy but if you use a model such as Roper, Logan and Tierney then you will more or less cover everything, although you might need to expand on your holistic care, ie have they got a social worker/ if they have a disability do they have respite care etc etc.

    LO2 is making a plan of care based on their needs. Again you could use RLT- (it may well have moved on from this as I finished my training in 2006) we used to have a sheet for each activity of daily living in the bedside doc and we would write a plan of how we would achieve each outcome, with a goal for each point that was time limited and measurable.

    LO3: Is adapting to a situaton, reassessing at necessary points. Ie if a patient's airway becomes compromised you need a new plan of care and you need to evidence why you have changed the plan of care, so perhaps they are now in oxygen because their sats are below 90 or something.

    LO4: Is kinda the documentation side of LO3 (3 is more the practice and 4 the theory)

    LO5: Is really about using evidence based practice, ie why have you made the above decision? Is nasal canulae more appropriate than a headbox for the compromised airway?

    LO6:Maybe you asked a HCA to take a canula out? Did you the teach the parents how to suction an airway (bad example there as more like a 3rd yr task but you get my meaning)

    LO7: Maintaining a professional persona- have you assisted a first year with a task? Offered an explanation? How have you supported your team members? By communicating, teamwork, completing allocated tasks. Use of the MDT.

    Hope that helps. Ask if you want any further clarification.
    GrowingRoses, Aug 2, 2011
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