Preparation for Practice Learning

Child health nursing

Becks Reynolds 2017

• The programme is designed to optimise the maximum experience across a wide range of care environments across the health and social care landscape.

• Your course will be divided into separate theory and practice blocks

50% Theory 50% Practice

• 2,300 hours of practice Learning hours must be achieved, of which 300 can be logged through clinical skills simulation.

Placements

Placements

North Devon

Somerset and

TauntonCornwall

Torbay

Plymouth

You will be asked to identify preferences for placements.

You will be expected totravel to different areas to gain the best practice experience.

Exeter and Mid Devon

Category Definition Community Public health Health visitor or School nursing

Ward Children's ward.

Complex needs CAMHS, Special School, Children community nurses, Respite care,

Critical Care High dependency, Emergency department, Neonatal unit, Special care baby unit, Theatres

Year 1 Community Public Health Ward

Year 2 Ward Complex needs

Year 3 Critical care Ward

The NMC requires students to gain skills in a range of care settings across the whole health care landscape

By the end of each year a student will have completed the following

Example of Placement Lines

Placement Opportunities• Primary Health Care: health visitor, school nurse,

community children’s nurses, child and adolescent mental health, schools for children with behavioural problems, learning and physical disability

• Acute Care: children’s wards inc. adolescents and babies, day case units, children’s outpatient departments, assessment units, neonatal intensive care, theatres, emergency departments and high dependency units

While you are in placement you are expected to;

• Have undertaken the preparatory work before you start the placement

• Work 40% of your time under direct or indirect supervision by a mentor• Work the shifts that the rest of the nursing team work i.e. 24 hour, 7 day

if appropriate• Not normally work any more than 75 hours per fortnight (i.e. the

equivalent of 37.5 hours per week).• Attend the hand over meetings at the beginning and end of the shifts• You will develop plans to achieve learning and have opportunity for

formal feedback along the way in preparation for a formal summative assessment towards the end of your placement.

Practice Assessment You will be assessed on the following NMC Domains in all placements:• Professional values• Communication and interpersonal skills• Nursing practice and decision-making• Leadership, management and team working