Placement Overview
| Placement Title | Middleton Integrated Neighbourhood Team – PARP 42 |
| Trust | Northern Care Alliance NHS Group |
| Your Placement Contact | Sam Wolstenholme, Bethany Kemp – Send Email |
| Placement Contact’s Role | District Nursing SisterThe best method of contacting this placement is via email because the phone system does not have an answer machine and rings engaged when the member of staff is out of the office. |
| Placement Address | 3rd Floor Brook House, Oldham Road, Middleton, M24 1AY. |
| Placement City/Town: | Manchester |
| Placement Phone | Co-ordinators number 07966240781. Leave a message or text a message. This number is checked and answered every day |
| Your University Contact: | Ashley Scott – Send Email |
About this placement
What is organised for students on commencement of placement?
Students will arrive for 9am on their first morning on placement then it will be 08.30am for the rest of the placement and will be shown round the centre by a member of the Team and introduced to appropriate staff and made to feel welcome.
At some time during their first day, a member of their Team will go through the Induction list with them, as per the assessment booklet. E.g. sickness reporting, health and safety information.
They will be shown modes of communication and mail points, location of message books, fax machine, email access, any teaching and learning resources, and a brief overview of the management structure of the Trust.
Hours of duty and uniform policy will be discussed. They will meet their mentor at the earliest opportunity but will have a named person to relate to until their mentor is available.
The student’s initial interview will take place at the earliest opportunity but certainly within the first week.
What are the arrangements for mentors/assessors?
Students are asked to contact the placement one week before their starting date to confirm their arrival. All mentors have a mentorship qualification.
What shift patterns are students allocated for learning?
Early:
Late:
Night:
Shift Notes:
All students will work a thirty seven and a half hour week over five days. Generally this will be 08.30am until 5pm Monday to Friday. There is an opportunity to work at the weekend and with the DNS evening / night service but this is to be negotiated with their mentor
What patient care situations are available in this placement?
- Care of patients in their own home or Treatment Clinics
- Care of patients in Residential Care Homes,
- Post-operative care
- Wide and varied range of wound care with extensive range of wound dressings
- Care of leg ulcers, venous and arterial.
- Occasionally malignant leg ulcers
- Compliance and non-compliance of treatments
- Maintenance treatments of anaemias, vitamin deficiencies, hormone disorders
- Care of patients with eye problems, post cataract, glaucoma, blindness.
- Palliative and terminal care.
- Shared care with Social services and other agencies.
- Care of the acute and chronically ill – short and long term care.
- Health promotion situations.
- Continence assessments and treatments.
- Care of the catheterised patient
- Caring for patients with learning disabilities, Alzheimers disease, etc.
- Bowel care – acute and chronic
- Diabetic care
- Care of patients diagnosed with Deep Vein
- Paraplegic Patient Care
- Follow up care of patients who have had day surgery
- Care of patients with laryngectomy and tracheostomy’s
- Care of patients requiring Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG) feeding
- Care of patients with Hickman lines insitu-picc lines and portacath
What nursing model is used for planning care?
Generally Orem’s model of self care and also Roper, Logan and Tierney’s model based on the activities of daily living.
Other models may be used in individual situations appropriate to the needs of the patient.
What core clinical skills can be learnt?
- Recording of blood pressure, blood sugar Injections – subcutaneous and intramuscular
- Administration of eye drops, creams, lotions
- Administration of suppositories, enemas, rectal medication
- Aseptic technique and wound care
- Bandaging, wool and crepe and understanding of four layer support
- Removal of sutures and clips
- PEG feeding
- Manual blood pressure
- Other physiological observations
What additional clinical skills can be learnt?
Observation and Discussion of:-
- Central line management
- Ear syringing
- Male and female urinary catheterisation
- Venepuncture
- Use and maintenance of the syringe driver
- Care of eye prosthesis
- Care of supra pubic catheter
- Understanding of the administration of Zoladex injections
- Stoma Care
- Care of gastrostomy, PEG feeds.
- Doppler assessments
- Care of tracheostomy
Some of these skills listed will be observational only
What resources are available to help students learning?
All areas have resource information available for students, full internet access and also access to the main healthcare databases e.g. CINAHL, following input of a password and code.
Many areas have their own area specific induction pack for students with information pertaining to the individual placement.
What research and practice development activities are being undertaken?
Spoke Placements
Children’s community team
Springhill hospice
Community matrons
Practice nurses
Abbotts Specialist nurse for PEGs
Specialist leg ulcer clinic
Specialist diabetes team
Bladder and bowel service
Veterans coffee morning
Wide range of healthcare professionals across the MDT
Additional Information
Clients have the right to refuse students access to their homes so students may be asked to wait in the car.
There may be animals present in the patients home so if students have allergies / phobias or concerns they must speak to their mentor before visiting the patient.
The building gets very cold in winter and will need to go outside frequently during visits so students are requested to bring warm clothing ie coats and cardigans