Placement Overview
| Placement Title | Ward C2 Complex Care/Haematology |
| Trust | |
| Your Placement Contact | Joanne Lealand – Send Email |
| Placement Contact’s Role |
PEL |
| Placement Address | Royal Bolton Hospital. Minerva Rd, Bolton, BL4 0JR |
| Placement City/Town: | Bolton |
| Placement Phone | 01204 390389 |
| Your University Contact: | Anna Gorman – Send Email |
About this placement
What is organised for students on commencement of placement?
Exposure to patients with complex health and social care needs. Patients with haematological conditions
What are the arrangements for mentors/assessors?
Mentors are allocated prior to the students’ arrival – students will be informed by letter prior to commencing placement.
What shift patterns are students allocated for learning?
Early:
07:30-15:30
Late:
12.00 – 20.00
Night:
19:30-08:00
Shift Notes:
Days: 07:30-20:00
What patient care situations are available in this placement?
Caring for patients with multiple medical conditions, social needs and clinically advanced illnesses who need support, input and co-ordination of services which consider all the patients circumstances.
What nursing model is used for planning care?
Roper, Logan and Tierney Model of Nursing.
What core clinical skills can be learnt?
- Fluid balance recording and monitoring
- Male/female urinary catheterisation
- Dressings
- Blood glucose monitoring and recording
- IV drugs
- Cannulation
- Drug administration
- IV fluids
- Venepuncture
- O2 therapy
- Specimen Collecting.
- Medicines management
- ADL’s
What additional clinical skills can be learnt?
- Care of Heamatology patients
- Chemotherapy administration
- Infection Control – Management of Outbreaks
- Pre Operative preparation/Post Operative Care
- Care of Dementia patients
- Clinical Risk Assessments – Trust Wide
- Exposure to blood transfusions
- Exposure to chemotherapy
What resources are available to help students learning?
- Teaching packs
- Learning packs and journals are available, and there is a resource area situated in Sisters office.
- Access to intranet/internet
What research and practice development activities are being undertaken?
- Preceptership programme. Mentorship programme
- Patient Group Direction for MRSA High Impact Intervention
- Continuing Health Care Screening
- Guidelines for Care of Head Injury Heamatology Services Development.
Spoke Placements
Physiotherapists
Occupational Therapists
Haematology Specialist Nurses
Additional Information
Practice Educator Facilitor – Kisma.anderson@boltonft.nhs.uk– Royal Bolton Hospital.