Placement Overview
| Placement Title | Ward H8 Intestinal Failure Unit (IFU) – SRFTP 29 |
| Trust | |
| Your Placement Contact | Mary Carty, Leanne Williamson – Send Email |
| Placement Contact’s Role | Practice Educator Lead (PEL) |
| Placement Address | Level 3, Hope Building, Hope Hospital, Stott Lane, Salford, M6 8HD |
| Placement City/Town: | Salford |
| Placement Phone | 0161 206 4520 / 8801 |
| Placement Web Site | www.srft.nhs.uk/about-us/depts/ifu |
| Your University Contact: | Mark Mitchell – Send Email |
About this placement
What is organised for students on commencement of placement?
- 1st day: orientation to the Unit.
- Meet assessors / co-assessors.
- Plan timetable / learning needs for the first few weeks of placement.
What are the arrangements for mentors/assessors?
Assessors and co-assessors are allocated prior to student arrival. Students can choose a mentor if they wish.
What shift patterns are students allocated for learning?
Early:
0700 – 1330
0700 -1530
Late:
1300-1930
1100 – 1930
Night:
1900 – 0730
1st year students are not required to work nights.
Shift Notes:
LONG DAY 0700 – 1930
1st year students are not required to work nights.
What patient care situations are available in this placement?
Caring for patients with Crohn’s disease, Ulcerative colitis, Vascular problems (including mesenteric infarction)and difficult Intravenous Access, Malabsorption problems (eg. coeliac disease), Radiation enteritis. Post operative complications, Nutritional assessment.
What nursing model is used for planning care?
Roper, Logan & Tierney Model of Nursing
What core clinical skills can be learnt?
Students may be able to participate/observe a number of clinical skills, for example:
- Admission / Discharge of patients
- Aseptic technique
- Total parenteral nutrition (TPN)
- Care of stoma
- Care of wounds
- Nutritional Assessment and Support
- Care of Vascular Access devices
- Wound Management including Stoma Sites and open abdominal wounds.
What additional clinical skills can be learnt?
- Parental nutrition
- Enteral feeding
- Pain management
- Knowledge of bowel fistulas
- Psychological aspects of care
- Competency based training of volumetric pumps
- Self administration of medicines.
What resources are available to help students learning?
- Participating in patient care
- Shadowing staff
- Spoke placements with multidisciplinary team i.e Home care company liason nurse, dietician & pharmacist, TPN compounding unit, stoma nurses, psychologist.
- Student placement information booklet;
- Competency Framework can be utilised for certain aspects of care.
- Books, journals, workbooks on A&P, inflammatory bowel disease and pharmacology.
- Easy access to intranet and internet
- Formal teaching sessions often available
- Practice Education lead frequently provides informal teaching activities
- Monthly Case Presentations represented by members of the Multi-disciplinary Team
- Access to Trust Academic Library
- Patient Care experience
- Learning from Unit staff & MDT.
What research and practice development activities are being undertaken?
- Unit database for all patients cared for in the Unit (including home patients)
- Line infection/blockage
- Databases
- Quality of life survey (psychology)
- Trials of new equipment/feeding regimes
- Enhancement of training package for patients on TPN
- Regular review of central line care using National Guidelines
- Various Trust Quality Initiatives
- Productive Ward Programme
Spoke Placements
- Pain Team
- Endoscopy Suite
- Radiology
- Theatres (Central line insertion)
- Out Patient department
- HPN clinic
Additional Information
The Intestinal Failure Unit (IFU) at Salford is one of 2 National Reference Centres (NRC) in the United Kingdom (UK). The unit has 21 beds and is recognised nationally and internationally as patients are treated from across the UK & abroad.
The service covers the provision of specialised services for adults with type 2 and 3 intestinal failure (IF) and manages approx. 300 patients on home parenteral nutrition (HPN) in the North of England. As a NRC the unit also has the responsibility to support other Integrated and HPN centres with specialist skills & knowledge.
The IFU has a dedicated multi award winning disciplinary team consisting of IF nurses, specialist consultants, IF physicians, surgeons, highly specialised dietitians, pharmacists and psychologists.
Part of the Ward Vision is: To have a relaxed, friendly & professional atmosphere, where the care provided will be patient focused & evidence based & we feel this also produces a quality learning environment.
The pink educational audit folder is located in the ward office (top shelf on the left) and students are encouraged to look at it.
Practice Education Facilitator – Andrea Surtees – Pre-Registration Practice Education Facilitator, Learning & Development Dept, 2nd Floor, Mayo Building, SRFT
Contact Number: 07395799524