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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