This module introduces the concept quality improvement for service development and delivery. It focuses on early intervention and preventive strategies for developing and delivering public health from the perspective of local, national, and international policy, and legislation. Exploring trends in global and national interventions for the promotion of health and prevention of ill health students will critically appraise specialist public health practice from a local, national, and global perspective. Employing key components of the sustainable development goals students will integrate learning from practice and theory to consider the impact that economic, social, environmental and health related factors have on the health, and wellbeing of people, communities, and populations. Providing opportunities for interprofessional and discipline specific learning, students will explore the personal, professional, and service factors which influence the development and delivery of quality services for individual and public health and wellbeing.

Available as a standalone module: No

Aims
This module aims to enable learners:

• To gain a breadth of knowledge, understanding and exposure to a range of practice and service delivery situations.
• To develop and use strategies for autonomous practice and evidence informed service delivery in complex, unpredictable situations, and settings.
• To develop knowledge and understanding of the four pillars of advanced practice and use this approach to lead and manage care and evidence informed service delivery in line with contemporary research, policy, and legislation.
• To develop and use the skills and knowledge to enable them to lead and manage an active caseload of children and families, receiving the health visiting services with reducing levels (from direct to indirect) of supervision from the practice assessor.

Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding:

• Appraise strategies for assessing, deciding, delivering, and evaluating person-centred care to children and families in situations that may be complex, and unpredictable.
• Critically consider the operational and strategic leadership and management priorities for contemporary specialist community public health nursing (SCPHN, health visitor) practice and evaluate the impact they have on the design, and delivery of safe, person-centred, and evidence-informed care to children, families, and communities.

Intellectual Skills:

• Appraise the theories and principles of public health practice (including health promotion, improvement, and protection) and use them to lead and manage early intervention and prevention-focused care delivery for children, families, and communities.
• Demonstrate and critically evaluate compassionate leadership when managing specialist community public health nursing (health visiting), interdisciplinary and interagency teams and supporting individual professional wellbeing, motivation, and productivity by promoting equality, diversity, and inclusion.

Practical Skills:

• Demonstrate and critically reflect on the ability to lead and manage the SCPHN (health visiting) team, person-centred care, and clinically efficient, effective, and safe service delivery.
• Critically analyse and apply policy and legislation to safeguard and protect the health, wellbeing and safety of children and families who are vulnerable, live in complex, unpredictable situations and need others to advocate on their behalf.

Transferable Skills:

• Explain and critically reflect on the use of social interaction, partnership working and engagement strategies that promote co-production and shared decision-making with children, families, and communities receiving SCPHN (health visiting) services.
• Appraise and critically apply strategies for leading and managing priorities of care and service delivery in situations that are complex, unpredictable, and subject to change.
  

This module can contribute to the following programme(s)

6015: PgDip Specialist Practice Qualification District Nursing

6076: PgDip Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (Health Visiting)