Virtual Nursing Placement at Leeds and York Partnership NHS Trust

Leeds & York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Virtual Placement RGD - Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust 2019 National Staff Survey

Placement offer: Virtual Placement not assessed (spoke placement) up to 10 days It is an 8 bedded independent unit that admits men and women with complex mental health needs in the age range 18-65yrs Nursing students will work in small ward teams who are responsible for all the patients over a 10 day period with oversight from Practice Supervisors to help guide and support. They are responsible for developing Care plans, Risk assessments, ward round notes, assorted assessments, reports and discharge plans. Each group will be responsible for all eight patients and will need to have care plans, risk assessments and daily notes on each of the patients. However each group will be named nurse for one patient and will advocate, prepare ward round notes, look at discharge plans and create a formulation for on particular patient. Each group will have a allocated Practice Supervisor to work with. Will use MS teams as platform for all communication. (all students will require a NHS.net email address) integrity | simplicity | caring integrity | simplicity | caring www.leedsandyorkpft.nhs.uk www.leedsandyorkpft.nhs.uk

A typical day on virtual placement. Handover will start promptly at 08.30am a ward meeting will be followed in which updates will be given and expectations of the day. Students will be expected to fill each day with the same clinical activities that would ordinarily fill a placement day, medication, therapeutic group activity, PIPPA, MDT, clinical events There will be a drug round that relates to the patients. The group will decide upon the medication that needs to be administered to the patients. Each student will write a resume of the drug in the template provided in the clinical notes. Over the first 2 days they will be busy writing up care plans for patients, risks assessments for patients and starting to get to know your patients . There will be events which occur throughout the placement that you will need to respond to as they happen. integrity | simplicity | caring integrity | simplicity | caring www.leedsandyorkpft.nhs.uk www.leedsandyorkpft.nhs.uk

Learning outcomes Team working Leadership, they will take on the role of shift co-ordinator for their team, will be responsible for the care afforded to each patient on the ward Reading and interpret information given to them to help in formulating risk assessments, care plans, advocating for the service users Medications *each service user will need to prescribed 6 medications each, nursing students will be required to know contraindications, dosage, usage, side effects, (pharmacy review will be conducted during placement) Managing events, (decision to use rapid tranq, de-escalation, Fire, complaint, MHA tribunal (dependent upon year group), MDT review, 5 P s formulation, hostage/room barricade, use of therapeutic group, visiting professionals e.g. professional lead for nursing, IPCC visit. integrity | simplicity | caring integrity | simplicity | caring www.leedsandyorkpft.nhs.uk www.leedsandyorkpft.nhs.uk

Student Feedback All the feedback that was given on my performance was really constructive given pointers on what can be done next time and what can be built on to better improve my performance. This was virtual so was taken out in university accommodation and the WIFI isn t great so that would have supported the placement more. This was something I greatly appreciated about this placement. As it was simulated and set up for us, we were the centre and focus of the whole thing, and it was about our learning and improvement. This isn't something that is possible (nor should it be!) on a non simulated ward, so it was nice to have this time to be able to suggest anything we wanted at our own pace. integrity | simplicity | caring integrity | simplicity | caring www.leedsandyorkpft.nhs.uk www.leedsandyorkpft.nhs.uk

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