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Understand how to identify all differential diagnoses by taking a comprehensive patient history and conducting a physical examination where necessary and consider what diagnostic and screening tests may be needed and which patients require referral to specialist services.
Reflect on the role of person-centred care and social prescribing as a means of enhancing the mental well-being of older people and use the reflective case study to identify the features of a social activity that might sustain the well-being of individuals.
Outline the symptoms and issues that can be caused by pelvic radiation disease (PRD) and identify appropriate self-management approaches for patients with PRD
Identify lifestyle approaches to the management of hypertension in people with learning disabilities and explain the pharmacological approaches to the management of hypertension.
Identify ways to promote equity in career progression, leading to improved staff experiences and patient outcomes. Review your organisation’s policy on equity in relation to career progression in the nursing and midwifery workforce.
Use Orem’s concepts of care agency to explore the importance of securing narratives from older carers and describe how narratives can contribute to an understanding of self-care agency and older carers’ relationships with nurses.
Discuss the context, implementation and ongoing development of the SPOT programme and PEWS charts in England, and recognise the importance of listening to and acting on carers’ concerns about their child’s health status.
Describe how reflections can extend beyond individual episodes of care, and differentiate between reactive and strategic reflection.
Discuss how a structured ABCDE assessment and a PEWS score contribute to determining the escalation level, and how to document a child’s vital signs and observations on an age-appropriate PEWS chart and calculate their PEWS score.
Identify some of the challenges linked to using reflective practice in learning disability care and reconsider the practicalities of reflective practice and how it might be conducted in your area of practice.