Enhancing Mental Health Nursing Proficiency; Leading Evidence-based Professional and Caring Practice 2000 words
Students will demonstrate their ability to:
• Demonstrate comprehensive and detailed knowledge of effective leadership and management of a caseload of people who require nursing care.
• Critically reflect and evaluate their own performance when working under pressure and in dealing with complex and/or challenging decisions e.g. an emergency, a crisis or in a high-dependency situation.
• Demonstrate a comprehensive and detailed knowledge of a framework of clinical governance and legal and professional frameworks.
• Evaluate the roles and responsibilities of other professionals and agencies to enhance safe practice and effective care, safeguard vulnerable individuals and challenge practice where appropriate!
• Includes the student’s completed electronic literature search as an appendix.
• Adhere to the School of Health & Social Care policy for confidentiality and consent.
2000 word written commentary on leading and managing a caseload in this commentary students will critically analyse and explore the theories of nursing leadership and caseload management in mental health nursing. Male acute ward.
• How have you managed caseload and what skills have you used
• Avoid looking at each criteria as separate sections of work they should all merge and flow.
• You may wish to focus on one situation such as an emergency, crisis situation or a high dependency situation might be. You could focus on something unexpected, for example an emergency admission requiring you to reprioritise or bed shortages etc due to the limited word count.
Demonstrate comprehensive and detailed knowledge of effective leadership and management of a caseload of people who require nursing care.
• Very brief overview of caseload
• Think about skills required, how you delegated (did they have correct skills and how did you ascertain this)
• Patient may prefer male – documented in care plan and the male staff may be needed elsewhere so you prioritise – what skills helped you prioritise and why is this important
• Time management – what requires being completed due to time restraints. Prioritising tasks and also keeping people updated about the plan of the day.
• Keeping service users informed as to if their needs are going to be met – are the resources available to take them on leave – what can we put in place instead.
• How is giving and receiving handovers leadership and management?
• Why has the caseload been managed in this way – episode of violence and aggression eg
• Think about the discharge of patients, who did you need to contact.
Critically reflect and evaluate their own performance when working under pressure and in dealing with complex and or challenging decisions.
• Reflection can be carried out in 3rd person .
• How well did I manage my time in that situation and what could I have done better?
Demonstrate a comprehensive and detailed knowledge of a framework of clinical governance and legal and professional frameworks.
• This may include demonstration of adhering to professional guidelines and protocols such as NICE, NMC, RCN, DH, NHS. It could also include reference to local trust guidelines.
• Clinical governance includes safe and best practice that involves audit, handling of complaint.
Evaluate the roles and responsibilities of other professional and agencies in order to enhance safe and effective care. Safeguard vulnerable individuals and challenge practice where appropriate.
• Think about other professionals/disciplines you worked with and what was their role? Eg. Escalating concerns to practice assessors
• What skills did you use – record keeping, providing safe and clear handover from staff and other departments?
• Think about discharge of patients, who did you need to contact.
