4 Year Nursing Degree Programme (BSc Cur) Intellectual Disability Nursing

NU1D04 -Holistic Understanding of Care (5 ECTS)

Learning Outcomes

Following completion of this module the student should be able to:

• Explain how different care models operate to support clients in fulfilling their lives.
  
• Describe some current approaches to assist client development.
  
• Engage with certain therapeutic approaches that assist the person with intellectual disability.
  
• Explain the rights of the person with intellectual disability.
  
• Describe the importance of advocacy in the lives of people with intellectual disability.

Module Learning Aims

The aim of this module is to introduce the student to an holistic approach to the support and
development of people with intellectual disability. The primary goal of the module is to discuss
approaches to supporting and developing the person with intellectual disability in the context of service
provision. The application of differential frameworks for care and frameworks that impact client support
and care are discussed. Finally certain specific foundations of care for the individual are explained.

• Rights of the person with an ID (1)
  
• Advocacy and people with an ID (1)
  
• Social role valorisation (2)
  
• Socialisation and Self skill assessment and acquisition. (5)
  
• ID care models and systematic approaches to supporting and developing clients [including
  nursing models for ID and specific ID models---IPP, PCP, Lifestyle planning.] (7)
  
• Caring-Ethos of caring for person with ID, theories of caring, 5 valued experiences. (2)
  
• Sleep. (2)
  

Recommended Reading List

Essential Reading

• Adams L., Beadle-Brown J. & Mansell J. (2006) Individual planning: an exploration of the link between quality of plan and quality of life. British Journal of Learning Disabilities 34, 68-76.
  
• Baldwin J. (2006) Person Centred Planning and Care Management with People with Learning Disabilities. British Journal of Social Work. 36, 1069-1071.
  
• Jukes M. & Aldridge J. (2007) Person-centred Practices – A holistic and integrated approach. Quay Books, London.
  
• McNally S. (2006) Person-centred planning in intellectual disability nursing. In. Care Planning and Delivery in Intellectual Disability Nursing. (Gates B. Ed), Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, pp. 68-84.
  
• Mansell J. and Beadle-Brown J. (2005) Person centred planning and person-centred action - a critical perspective In Person Centred Planning and Care Management with People with Learning Disabilities (Cambridge P. & Carnaby S. Eds), Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London, pp. 19-33.
  
• National Disability Authority (2005) Guidelines on Person-Centred Planning in the Provision of Services for People with Disabilities in Ireland, NDA, Dublin.
  
• Robertson J., Emerson E., Hatton, C. et al. (2007) Person-centred planning: factors associated with successful outcomes for people with intellectual disabilities. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research 51(3), 232-243.
  

* Additional readings will be given for each unit of learning.