Placement Overview
| Placement Title | Brook Ward – NUOS 01 |
| Trust | |
| Your Placement Contact | Gemma Gatenby, Kaitlinn Thompson – Send Email |
| Placement Contact’s Role | Ward Manager & Deputy Ward Manager
Kaitlinn Thompson – PEL |
| Placement Address | Moorside Unit, Trafford General Hospital, Moorside Road, Manchester, M41 5SL |
| Placement City/Town: | Manchester |
| Placement Phone | 0161 746 2696 |
| Your University Contact: | Stephen Worth – Send Email |
About this placement
What is organised for students on commencement of placement?
Orientation/ Induction booklet, numerous learning packs, organised departmental visits, semester specific ward resource area.
Mentors are allocated before students arrive on the ward.
All students will be allocated a mentor/associate mentor prior to the commencement in practice. The student will receive a welcome pack and will receive a full orientation and induction during the first 48 hours.
Students are welcome to have a pre-visit to the service and partake in their induction prior to commencement in practice and time will be given in lieu (optional).
Please contact the placement no sooner than two weeks prior to commencement to arrange your shift pattern.
What shift patterns are students allocated for learning?
Early:
07.30 – 15.30
Late:
12.30 – 20.30
Shift Notes:
Long Day:- 07.30 – 19.45
What nursing model is used for planning care?
Brookward uses a systematic problem solving approach to nursing care based on theASPIRE (assessment, systematic nursing diagnosis, planning, implementation,recheck and evaluation (Barrett et al 2012).
What core clinical skills can be learnt?
- MentalHealth diagnosis
- 1:1interview techniques
- Mental Health Assessment
- Therapeuticactivities incorporated into mental health assessment
- Admission/dischargeprocedures – incorporating care programme approach
- MentalHealth Act (1983)
- Riskassessment management
- Violenceand aggression management
- Hygieneissues – handwashing, infection control etc.
- Physicalobservations
- Adminof medication and injections
What additional clinical skills can be learnt?
- DiabetesManagement.
- PhysicalExamination.
- Communicationi.e. Chairing a therapeutic group.
What resources are available to help students learning?
- Intranet
- Internet(via identified qualified staff with passwords for access)
- Writteninformation/documents
- Libraryaccess and membership of Trafford General Hospital library with study areas andinternet access
- Libraryaccess at the Prestwich site
- Allmembers of the team are excellent resources to support you in your learninge-learning programmes
- Studydays/ in-house training
- Spoke opportunities
What research and practice development activities are being undertaken?
Spoke Placements
See Student Handbook for further Spokes.
Additional Information
Nurses on the unit now wear uniforms and students are asked to come in their uniforms (black trousers 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.
Practice education Facilitator: Sindhu Unni
Contact details: sindhu.unni@gmmh.nhs.uk
Pho no: 07990344817