The overarching aim of this module is to empower students in making professional judgements and decisions whilst demonstrating compassionate leadership when managing complex, high risk situations. The module will therefore provide opportunity for students to develop enhanced skills in risk management that they will apply to unfamiliar and unpredictable practice environments. It will provide opportunity to enable students to proactively identify actions and solutions to problems that may have many interacting factors. Students will develop enhanced leadership skills to enable teams to collaborate and communicate effectively with other professionals, agencies and organisations to improve quality and embed sustained and productive change across teams and systems. The module will enable them to lead and manage themselves and others in situations of uncertainty.  

Learning Outcomes

Critically evaluate key leadership and management theories, concepts, models and policy frameworks and critically reflect on how the dynamics of leadership and management impact on specialist practice at both local and national level 

Critically appraise their own and others leadership styles, and how they might develop and adapt their style to different environments and complex and/or high-risk situations whilst promoting healthy work-place cultures, teaching/learning environments, and behaviours to improve quality of care and embed sustained change across systems. 

Plan and present a business case to commission a resource or a service redesign to address a health need which is based on a critical evaluation to support the investment to meet the evolving shape of services through innovation, and strategic leadership 

Demonstrate achievement of the section 3, term 3 summative practice assessment and evidence readiness of eligibility for entry to the NMC register Part 3 (SCPHN) or recording of the Specialist Practice Qualification District Nursing against Part 1 registration (DN). 

Assessment

A 20 – 25 minute group presentation followed by 10 minutes question time. Within the presentation the students will pitch an innovative business case to commission a resource or a service redesign to address a health need and improve healthcare outcomes whilst demonstrating innovation and strategic leadership.

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This module can contribute to the following programme(s)

P14299: Post Graduate Diploma Community Specialist Practice: District Nursing (Work Based Learning Route) – 12 Month

P14301: Post graduate Diploma Community Specialist Practice: District Nursing (Independent and Supplementary Prescribing Route – 12 Month)