Placement Overview
| Placement Title | Keats Ward – Meadowbrook Unit |
| Trust | |
| Your Placement Contact | Keely Oates, Lily Bowers – Send Email |
| Placement Contact’s Role | |
| Placement Address | Hope Hospital, Stott lane, Salford, M6 8HD |
| Placement City/Town: | Salford |
| Placement Phone | 0161 358 2401 |
| Your University Contact: | Tony Gill – Send Email |
About this placement
What is organised for students on commencement of placement?
Mentors allocated before students arrival on the ward. Student placement/orientation pack.
What are the arrangements for mentors/assessors?
Mentors are aware of students allocated to them prior to their arrival. Further training the form of prepatation for Mentorship Module, Mentorship updates and Associated Mentor Training.
What shift patterns are students allocated for learning?
Early:
7.30 am. – 3.30 p.m.
Late:
1.00 p.m. – 9.00 p.m.
Night:
7-30pm – 7-45pm
Shift Notes:
Long day shift – 7-30am – 7-45pm
What patient care situations are available in this placement?
Patients on the Ward are usually known patients experiencing a relapse in their Mental Health problems or patients new to Mental Health services who are admitted for assessment of their Mental Health needs.
What nursing model is used for planning care?
Developed by Meadowbrook unit, based on 12 aspects of care.
What core clinical skills can be learnt?
- Risk assessing and managing risk
- Planning care
- Communication skills development
- Record keeping
- Mental state assessment skills
- Administration of medication
- Working with the multidisciplinary team
- Clinical decision making
What additional clinical skills can be learnt?
What resources are available to help students learning?
- Learning packs
- Journal articles/resourses on the ward
- On-site library with internet access
What research and practice development activities are being undertaken?
The Meadowbrook site has recently undergone a service re-design. Keats ward now accepts all female patients between the ages of 16 – 65. This has resulted in practice development focusing on gender specific services and attitudes towards Female Mental Health Services.
Spoke Placements
Arrange once on placement.
Additional Information
Nurses on the unit now wear uniforms and students are asked to come in their uniforms (black trousers/skirt and white polo shirt)
Identification badges are essential.
Students are asked to telephone the Ward before the placement starts to arrange the shift they are to start on.