SHORT DESCRIPTION:
This module is designed to ensure students develop a foundational understanding of their professional, ethical and legal responsibilities. The focus is on developing an appreciation of the professional codes, ethical values and legal frameworks which underpins health care practice. Emphasis will be placed upon understanding of the need to use up-to-date knowledge including ethical, legal and professional obligations to assess, plan, deliver and evaluate care, communicate findings, influence change and promote health, welfare and best practice.
AIMS OF THE MODULE:
This module aims to:
• To ensure students understand their professional, ethical and legal responsibilities including the need to adhere to the code of conduct for their profession.
• To ensure students understand the need to practice in a non-discriminatory, holistic, non-judgmental, caring and sensitive manner recognising and valuing the individuality and distinctness of others
• To develop students as reflective practitioners able to appraise their own and other’s work
ASSESSMENT OF THE MODULE:
Formative assessment:
There will be a formative assessment which will consist of an essay plan which will be constructed during the seminar in week 6 and peer reviewed.
Summative assessment:
The summative assessment is a maximum 3,000 word nursing practice essay based on a choice of two different case studie
Case Study One:
Kate is 17 years old, having just been admitted to hospital following a collapse at work (exact cause unknown). The accident and emergency staff recommended hospitalisation as she was found to be mildly dehydrated and hypoglycaemic. At handover the A&E nurse mentioned a referral to psychiatry had been made as the registrar suspected Kate might have an eating disorder.
Kate is a rather remarkable young lady in that she lives independently whilst studying for two A- Levels at night school. She tells you that she was an adoptee given back to foster care, and then abused by her carer. She is now an independent minor who works 30 hours per week in the local supermarket to support herself. Kate has absolutely no family support.
Kate is scared, stating that she doesn’t want to see the on-call psychiatrist and that she will
discharge herself from care if he arrives on the ward.
Whilst you are completing your admission paperwork with Kate, the psychiatrist walks onto the ward.
Explore your professional, ethical and legal obligations towards Kate. Case Study Two:
As a first year student nurse you are shadowing the ward sister whilst she is caring for six patients on an acute medical admissions ward. It is a bank holiday Monday and the ward is severely short staffed with the agency unable to fulfil the shortfall (it is a sunny day).
Two of your patient’s Mr. Arnold and Mr. Ahmed require their pain medication of Oramorph. As this is a controlled drug, the ward sister asks a colleague to assist.
Two hours later, Mr. Arnold who has mild learning disabilities is shouting at his visitors that the nurses are withholding his pain medication. Mr. Arnold informs you that his syringe of Oramorph was only half full.
Mr. Ahmed who is receiving palliative care has been unusually quiet all afternoon.
You find the ward sister to inform her about Mr. Arnold’s pain and Mr. Ahmed being sleepy all afternoon. The ward sister initially looks horrified but then states “the syringes must have got mixed up; I’ll top up Mr. Arnold’s pain relief, no harm done”.
Explore your professional, ethical and legal obligations towards Mr. Arnold and Mr. Ahmed.
Assignments must be submitted electronically via Turnitin for an originality report and also Moodle in order to receive your grade.
Instruction to students on submitting assignments electronically:
1. All assignments will be submitted electronically through the assessment activity in Moodle
and through TurnitinUK. No paper copies need to be handed in.
2. The submitted assignment must have a front page in the style as attached.
3. The submitted assignment must have a footer which includes page numbers and student number.
4. Turnitin will be configured to allow for more than one submission to enable multiple testing for similarity. Your marker will be examining your Turnitin report and therefore it is essential that you are confident that inadvertent plagiarism has not occurred.
5. Please ensure your completed assignment is uploaded before 23.45 on the submission date. The Turnitin and Moodle assessment sites will automatically close at 23.45 and no further submissions will be accepted.
6. Students who have special dispensation to submit after the published submission date or wish to submit late will be able to access an alternative Turnitin and Moodle assessment site. This site will open on the 0900 the day after the published submission date and close at 23.45 two weeks after the published submission date. This is available for first attempts only.
7. Subsequent attempts do not have a two-week extension and so must be submitted on the published date.
8. When submitting your assignment into Moodle you will be certifying that your work is your own except where indicated through accurate referencing using the Harvard Referencing format.
9. Student feedback will be available via Moodle on the published date 12th June. Please note these are only provisional results and subject to change.
10. If you are planning to submit your assignment close to the deadline, this is likely to be a busy period and may result in a failure to submit.
11. Not being able to upload onto Turnitin and Moodle close to the deadline will not form the basis for extenuation.
House style front page
Module Title: Professional Values, Ethics and Law