SayPro Online Course SAQA 11516617191

1-6. Exit Level Assessment Criteria

ASSESSMENT AND DIAGNOSIS

Provider / Facilitator / Collaborator Role:

During placement in the community health unit, the learner should be able to:-
Conduct a comprehensive (preventive, curative and rehabilitative) health assessment and diagnosis of individuals, families, groups and communities in a variety of settings (both institutional and non-institutional) in which nursing takes place, including:
– community and environmental profiling
– epidemiological surveys
– physical and mental health status

Professional Role:

The learner should be able to:-
Use professional knowledge to assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing practice
Assess and monitor nursing care plans within parameters of expected expertise
Identify resources for referral of clients
Assess own nursing care workload
Identify safety and equipment deficits in the community health unit
Assess staff development needs
Assist the multidisciplinary team to analyse problems and teach solutions

Advocacy Role:

The learner should be able to:-
Identify contemporary health issues
Identify reproductive health, maternal and child health and women’s health issues
Assess nursing practice for cultural insensitivity that could hinder nursing care

PLANNING

Provider / Facilitator / Collaborator Role

The learner should be able to:-
Facilitate and negotiate realistic and contextualised health and nursing care plans for individuals, families and communities according to identified health needs
Design client – focused teaching plans for/in collaboration with client(s)
Outline referral line procedures for accessing the referral system both within the health system and in communities
Draw up proposals for community health nursing services
Collaborate with client(s) and stakeholders in developing financial plans for health care programmes
Participate in the formulation of institutional and community health service policies
Compile an appropriate emergency/life-saving plan for individuals, families, groups and communities
Compile an appropriate post-disaster plan for a community

Professional Role:

The learner should be able to:-
Plan patient care plans to support delivery of nursing care while ensuring client and staff safety needs
Devise plans to implement new nursing practice / national and provincial policies
Plan staff development programmes in collaboration with all stakeholders

Advocacy Role:

In the planning of nursing care for individuals, families and communities, the learner should be able to:-
Display understanding of the professional responsibility for advocacy in the case of human rights in health care settings
Demonstrate knowledge regarding ethical concepts relating to advocacy
Demonstrate knowledge of the implications of relevant legislation on the professional advocacy role
Critically analyse the impact of human rights violations on community clients
Demonstrate knowledge of the rights of workers and providers in the workplace
Demonstrate knowledge of the principles of negotiating for workers’ rights
Demonstrate an understanding of techniques for promotion of safety in the workplace
Demonstrate knowledge of conflict resolution process for individuals / family / groups / communities

7 – 13. Exit Level Assessment Criteria

IMPLEMENTATION

Provider / Facilitator / Collaborator Role:

The learner should be able to demonstrate ability to:-
Initiate action to encourage Batho Pele principles.
Implement a promotive and/or preventive plan to address the health needs of psychiatric patients/clients as well as communities with health related problems in collaboration with client(s) and/or stakeholders.
Implement a treatment and rehabilitation nursing health care plan for the health needs and/or problems of the broader community and psychiatric patients.
Participate in quality assurance programmes in community and psychiatric settings( both institutional and non-institutional).
Facilitate change and transformation in the health sector with specific reference to:
– psychiatric nursing settings (community and hospital-based)
– community settings
Participate with communities, stakeholders and/or other health professionals in management of emergency situations

Professional Role

The learner should be able to demonstrate ability to:-
Demonstrate accountability for practice
Demonstrate ethical behaviour in own practice by working within the multidisciplinary team
Display evidence of pursuing excellence and originality in own work
Implement staff development programmes
Display knowledge of the role of the community nurse in various health settings
Identify own learning needs by evaluating own practice
Ability to utilise available technology to improve practice and service
Document professional progress effectively
Demonstrate in practice the utilisation of informed choice

Advocacy Role:

The learner should be able to:-
Maintain professional confidentiality
Promote an inclusive approach to all cultural groups/diversity
Take firm action to prevent discrimination and harassment in the workplace
Act as the clients/patients advocate where appropriate
Demonstrate awareness of ethical/legal implications in implementing patient care
Intervene to protect clients/patients/staff from violation of their human rights as well as unethical behaviour from others

EVALUATION

Provider / Facilitator / Collaborator Role

The learner should be able to demonstrate ability to:-
Evaluate the process and outcome of the implementation of nursing care plans for community clients in collaboration with patients and families
Evaluate the process and outcomes of the implementation of nursing care plans to meet the health needs of the community in collaboration with the communities

Professional Role:

The learner should be able to:-
Evaluate relevance of new nursing practices and implications of implementation on nursing strategy
Accept accountability and responsibility for nursing practice and management skills within the context of scope of practice
Evaluates the response to the educational programmes

Advocacy Role:

The learner should be able to:-
Monitors the response to above programmes
Critically analyse issues related to the advocacy role that impact on clients in the community

Critical Cross-fields:

Exit Level Assessment Criteria:

1.
Utilise effective communication skills/ technology across the cultural spectrum amongst various sectors and the multidisciplinary team.
Give appropriate health related education to individuals, families, groups and communities based on identified health information needs.
Use professional nomenclature in written and verbal communication.
Keep clear, accurate and complete records of patient and/or client care.
Write reports for various audiences.
Disseminate documented information, where appropriate, to colleagues and other relevant stakeholder in an ethical manner.
Confer with and refer to team members about nursing and health concerns.

2. Demonstrate ability to critically reflect on own practice as a nurse by:
Raising and exploring questions
Identifying problems and distinguishing between problems within the scope of practice, including those that need referral
Selecting the best alternative for a problem
Evaluate the results of the alternative implemented together with relevant role players
Apply problem-solving skills related to psychiatric nursing situations, partners in health care, stakeholders and partners in communities (community and environmental issues)

3. Demonstrate ability to:
Collaborate and consult with the multidisciplinary team and other stakeholders including communities in the assessment, diagnosis, planning and evaluation of the nursing care aimed at prevention, promotion, treatment and rehabilitation of individuals, families, groups and communities
Demonstrate understanding of the role of the other stakeholders in health care by establishing and maintaining partnerships with relevant stakeholders and communities in the application of PHC approach and principles in the nursing care of psychiatric patients and communities
Establish inter-professional and inter-sectoral relationships through networking and forming alliances with key players in dealing with community health issues and demands
Assume leadership role as well as function effectively as a team member

4. Demonstrate ability to:
Use a wide range of processes, techniques, tools and materials to gather information, solve problems, create and evaluate products as well as communicate results
Use equipment and technology in health settings safely, appropriately and ethically
Creatively improvise when technology is lacking
Apply/utilize technology appropriate to the identified need of the client(s):
– In psychiatry
– In midwifery
– The broader community

5. Demonstrate ability to:
Identify nursing and health problems on which research is needed
Initiate and design a research plan
Implement planned research activities
Disseminate results – written and verbal presentation
Interpret and facilitate utilization of research-based information in own practice

6. Demonstrate ability to:
Apply principles of advocacy in support and protection of clients = human rights in the provision and facilitation of nursing care
Understand the concepts of clients = rights in the health care settings, including Bill of Rights and SANC policies
Disseminate information about human rights to the clients of nursing
Understand the purpose, functions and characteristics of labour/representative organisations for the protection of the rights and interests of health workers and employers

7. Demonstrate ability to:

Examine own values, strengths, abilities and aspirations in terms of their influence on future options and opportunities
Explore and evaluate available career and professional development opportunities
Voluntarily participate in professional development activities

8. Demonstrate ability to:
Reflect on own learning
Identify own learning needs
Identify, effectively access and utilize resources (literature, technological and human) to meet identified learning needs
Design realistic plans for meeting identified learning needs
Implement plans for meeting identified learning needs
Willingly subject his/her views and learning to validation by others through shared reflection
Critically analyse his/her meaning perspectives about health and illness in order to affirm and/or transform same

Continuous assessment

A variety of methods are used with constructive feedback to assist the learner to master theory and practica skills in order to achieve their maximum potential.
Portfolios
Simulations
Comprehensive evaluation of nursing through assessment at workplace and practica
Written examinations
Case studies and case presentations
Clinical and academic ward rounds
Ward inspections
Clinical work books
Community projects and seminars
Journal assessment and self-evaluation
Peer group and preceptor evaluation
Competency evaluation of clinical skills
Problem-based solving strategies
Community participation

Formative assessment:

Credit assessment for theory and practica contributes 50% to the final assessment mark.

Summative assessment:

Formal university moderated assessments. Final examinations (both theoretical and practical) for each subject and at each exit level will be implemented prior to entrance to next level of training programme.