Placement Overview
| Placement Title | Patient Flow Team |
| Trust | |
| Your Placement Contact | Robyn Stoker, Sobia Hussain – Send Email |
| Placement Contact’s Role | Senior Practitioners |
| Placement Address | Prestwich Hospital, Old Trust Head Quarters Bury New Road Prestwich M25 3BL . |
| Placement City/Town: | Prestwich |
| Placement Phone | 0161 2710200 |
About this placement
What is organised for students on commencement of placement?
introduced to staff on duty, local induction.
¿Allocated practice supervisor and practice assessor
¿Interesting and varied learning experience
¿A flexible learning environment
¿No unsupervised working, support at all times throughout your shifts
¿Support and guidance in formal and informal meetings with practice supervisors and practice assessor. Your assessor will ‘assess’ your progress and development at the relevant points
¿To be fully involved in negotiation of your learning needs
¿The opportunity to develop your knowledge and skills relating to mental state, risk assessment and care planning
What are the arrangements for mentors/assessors?
Assessors and supervisors attend workshops to develop their skills to support students in practice
What shift patterns are students allocated for learning?
Early:
07.30-14.35. Break is 20 minutes (total of 6.75 hours)
Late:
Late 13.25-20.30. Break is 20 minutes (total of 6.75 hours)
Night:
20.15-07.45. Break is 50 minutes (total of 10.66 hours)
Shift Notes:
Long day 07.30-20.30. Break is 1 hour (total of 12 hours)
Notes: in the hub staff work 3 long days a week. The spoke practitioners work Monday to Friday 9-5.
What patient care situations are available in this placement?
Bed Management is made up of a senior practitioner and a bed manager together they have an overview of demands on beds and available capacity across the GMMH footprint. They gatekeep admissions, assessing and prioritising need. They liaise on a daily basis with A&E departments, community teams, Home treatment teams, ward liaison, AMHP services and the spoke practitioners to ensure patients are appropriately placed in a timely manner taking in to consideration individual need.
Spoke practitioners work within each of the inpatient units, they have an overview of their bed area and ensure that admissions and discharges are facilitated smoothly and without delays. They update bed management twice a day in conference calls on any discharges happening within their area. They also work closely with the community teams to ensure the correct package of care is in place to ensure safe discharge
What nursing model is used for planning care?
CPA
What core clinical skills can be learnt?
Assessment skills, risk assessment and management
→ Observing mental health risk assessments with the spokes
→ Gain experience of multi disciplinary team working and multi agency working
→ Observe and take part in supervised evidence based mental health nursing practice
→ Gain experience in working with service users to identify possible barriers to discharge in order to prevent prolonged admissions.
→ taking part in mental health risk assessments (including documentation of this)
→ Observing brief psychosocial intervention
→ Working with your practice supervisors to coordinate assessments and MDT discussions around discharge planning.
→ Referral and signposting to services, allowing development of knowledge of services available
→ Multi disciplinary team working and multi agency working
→ Development of documentation and communication skills (demonstrating this on Paris)
→Taking active part in evidence based mental health nursing practice
→ Exploration of the impact of psychosocial stressors on mental health and exploring this with the patient under supervision
→ Working within the mental health act including client on Section 2 MHA, CTO recalls/revocations, and emergency uses of the act such as Section 5(2) and 5(4). Including sitting with clients and explaining their rights under MHA.
→ Taking part in completing risk assessments and formulating discharge/follow up plans
What additional clinical skills can be learnt?
→ Completing mental health risk assessments with your practice supervisors, including use of appropriate questions and documenting accurately
→ Taking the lead as shift coordinator under supervision of practice supervisors.
→ Brief psychosocial intervention
→ Mental health promotion and education
→ Referral and signposting to services, allowing development of knowledge of services available
→ Multi disciplinary team working and multi agency working, identifying and referring to appropriate services
→ Care planning, development of documentation and communication skills
→ Exploration of the impact of psychosocial stressors on mental health
→ Working within the mental health act including client on Section 2 MHA, CTO recalls/revocations, and emergency uses of the act such as Section 5(2) and 5(4).
What resources are available to help students learning?
Support from staff on shift, access to how to guides on n drive
– Student resource folders (on shelf in office) that contain up to date polices and guidelines
– Internet access to trust policies, publications and developments
– Paris for documentation of assessments.
– Clinical audits.
– Access to spoke placements (see separate section)
– Staff – we have a diverse and experienced staff group who are all happy to aide you develop your knowledge.
Spoke Placements
Rivington Unit: Royal Bolton Hospital, Minerva Road, Farnworth, BL4 0JR
Meadowbrook: Hope Hospital, Stott Lane, Salford, M6 8HD
Park House: North Manchester General Hospital, Delaunays Road, Manchester M8 5RB
Laureate House: Wythenshawe Hospital Southmoor Road, Manchester M23 9LT
Additional Information
Our expectations of you:
¿To adhere to trust polices and protocols
¿ Always adhere to dress code and carry your student ID
¿ Do not bring excess valuables to placement (sometimes lockers will not be available)
¿To actively participate in your own learning experiences, negotiating aims and methods by which these can be attained
¿To ask questions and seek support as required
¿Act in a professional manner at all times. Respect the individual’s right to confidentiality
¿ To enjoy this opportunity to develop your knowledge and skills
¿ Dependant on stage of training you may be expected to take the lead in running a shift, taking/providing handovers, completing Paris documentation as per NMC code, and liaising with carers/families.
¿ It is expected that all students will act in concordance with The Code: standards of conduct performance and ethics for nurses and midwives (NMC 2010) and Record keeping (NMC 2010) throughout their placement, this includes when in local areas as you are representing the trust.
¿ Maintain confidentiality and act within data protection act law: Due to the nature of the work in the Health Service, we often handle sensitive, clinical and personal details about people’s private lives and the public must be able to trust us completely to deal with and handle that information securely; this includes any information about you, colleagues, patients & their condition/treatment.
¿ Be aware of your obligations around social media and gifts/hospitality
PEF Contact Helen Morgan Helen.Morgan@gmmh.nhs.uk