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Adult Nursing & Social Care Course teaches you everything on the topic thoroughly from scratch so you can achieve a professional certificate for free to showcase your achievement in professional life. This Adult Nursing & Social Care Online Course is a comprehensive, instructor-guided course, designed to provide a detailed understanding of the nature of the related sector and your key roles within it.

To become successful in your profession, you must have a specific set of skills to succeed in today’s competitive world. In this in-depth Adult Nursing & Social Care Training Course, you will develop the most in-demand skills to kickstart your career, as well as upgrade your existing knowledge & skills. The training materials of this course are available online for you to learn at your own pace and fast-track your career with ease.

Please note: This course only gives you the theoretical knowledge that you need to excel in this field. This Adult Nursing & Social Care Online Course doesn’t entitle you to practise as a professional in this specific field.

Key Features of the Adult Nursing & Social Care Training Course

Our trusted, high quality and affordable Adult Nursing & Social Care Training Course trains individuals to become experts in their field.

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Who Should Take The Adult Nursing & Social Care Course

Anyone with a knack for learning new skills can take this Adult Nursing & Social Care Course. While this comprehensive training is popular for preparing people for job opportunities in the relevant fields, it also helps to advance your career for promotions.

Certification

Once you’ve successfully completed your Adult Nursing & Social Care Online course, you will immediately be sent a digital certificate. Also, you can have your printed certificate delivered by post (shipping cost £3.99). Our certifications have no expiry dates, although we do recommend that you renew them every 12 months.

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Accreditation

All of our courses, including this Adult Nursing & Social Care Course, are fully accredited, providing you with up-to-date skills and knowledge and helping you to become more competent and effective in your chosen field.

Assessment

At the end of the Adult Nursing & Social Care Course, there will be an online assessment, which you will need to pass to complete the course. Answers are marked instantly and automatically, allowing you to know straight away whether you have passed. If you haven’t, there’s no limit on the number of times you can take the final exam. All this is included in the one-time fee you paid for the course itself.

Course Curriculum

The detailed curriculum outline of our Adult Nursing & Social Care Course is as follows:

  • The History of Nursing
  • Introduction to the job role 
  • Duties and responsibilities of a nurse
  • Members of a healthcare team and their functions 
  • Skills and Knowledge Required for Nurse
  • Personal qualities and attributes that help you to become a better nurse
  • Top Qualities of a Great Nurse 
  • Summary
  • Assessment 
  • Working in different types of healthcare settings 
  • Working in acute care settings 
  • Working in sub-acute care settings 
  • Working in-home care and long-term care 
  • Summary 
  • Assessment
  • Doctor Patient Confidentiality or Implementation of P.L.R.C 
  • Access to the Patient Records Legislations 
  • Adult safeguarding and support Legislations 
  • Abortion Legislations 
  • Summary
  • Assessment 
  • Mental Capacity & Mental Health Legislations 
  • Drugs Control, Supervision, Management & Health Protection Legislations 
  • The Code: Professional standards of practice and behaviour 
  • Summary
  • Assessment
  • Need for Communication in Nursing
  • Communication in the Context of Caregiving
  • Forms of Communication
  • Types of Communication
  • Communication and Language Needs and Preferences
  • Building Rapport
  • Environmental Factors that Influence Communication
  • Barriers to Communication
  • Strategies for Overcoming Communication Barriers
  • Fire Safety 
  • Preventing Falls 
  • Violence in the Workplace 
  • Nursing Assistant Safety
  • Summary
  • Assessment
    • Introduction to the Module 
    • Topics to be Covered 

 

  • Hygiene 

 

  • Assessing the Client for Their Personal Hygiene Habits and Routines 
  • Assessing and Intervening in the Client’s Performance on their Activities of Daily Living 
  • AM Care and PM Care 
  • Oral Hygiene 
  • Hand Hygiene for Nursing 
  • Bed bathing patients 
  • Summary
  • Assessment 
  • Introduction to the Module 
  • Topics to be Covered 
  • What is Infection? 
  • The chain of Infection 
  • Decontamination of non-invasive shared equipment 
  • Standard Precautions 
  • Guidelines for Standard Precautions 
  • Infection Prevention and Control Policies 
  • Prevention of Infection in Healthcare Settings
  • Universal Precautions 
  • Infection Control in Special Circumstances 
  • Summary 
  • Assessment
  • Introduction to the Module 
  • Topics to be Covered 
  • What is asepsis? 
  • Principles of asepsis 
  • Stages of medical aseptic technique 
  • Guidelines for Maintaining Medical Asepsis 
  • Summary
  • Assessment 
  • Introduction to the Module 
  • Topics to be Covered 
  • Who can administer which drugs, and under what circumstances? 
  • Preparation of Medication for Administration 
  • Introduction to Safe Drug Administration Procedure  
  • 10 rights of medication administration 
  • Administration of Controlled vs Non-Controlled Drugs 
  • Delegation of Drug Administration 
  • Summary
  • Assessment 
  • Young Adults (20-40 Years) 
  • Middle-Aged Adults (40-65 Years) 
  • Older Adults (65 Years and beyond)
  • Considerations for Adults of all Age
  • Palliative Care
  • Summary
  • Assessment 
  • Immune System 
  • The role of immune system 
  • The Structure of Immune System 
  • The Parts of the Immune System 
  • Innate Immune Response 
  • Adaptive immune response 
  • Vaccination (Please discuss within 2-3 short paragraphs) 
  • Autoimmunity (Please discuss what it does and how within 1-2 short paragraphs) 
  • Disorders of the Immune System 
  • Summary 
  • Assessment
  • Physical and Emotional Benefits of Rest and Sleep 
  • Normal Sleep 
  • Factors that can affect Sleep
  • The Nursing Assistant’s Role in Promoting Rest and Sleep (Please discuss elaborately in bullet points)
  • Summary 
  • Assessment
  • What is mobility? 
  • Hazards of immobility 
  • Nursing intervention  
  • Assessing the client for mobility, gait, strength and motor skills 
  • Providing Care to Clients with Immobility 
  • Summary 
  • Assessment
  • What is pain?
  • An overview of the pain system 
  • How do people respond to pain? 
  • Recognizing and reporting pain
  • The Cause of Pain 
  • Treatments for pain 
  • Associations of pain with other symptoms 
  • The Nursing Assistant’s role in managing pain 
  • Summary
  • Assessment
  • Essential Nutrients 
  • The role of the nurse in nutritional support 
  • Nurses’ role in preparing and serving food 
  • How Nurses with a Background in Nutrition Can Help Patients 
  • The Eatwell Plate
  • How to use Eatwell Plate 
  • Guidelines for Serving Supplements, Nourishments, and Snacks 
  • Guidelines for Serving Meal Trays
  • Guidelines for Feeding the Dependent Patient 
  • Summary 
  • Assessment
  • Body Fluids 
  • Fluid and Electrolyte Transport  
  • Fluid and Electrolyte Balance 
  • 10 Fluid and Electrolyte Imbalances 
  • Nursing Management for fluid and electrolyte imbalances 
  • Summary 
  • Assessment
  • Responsibilities of the Nursing Assistant 
  • Elimination Equipment 
  • Assisting with Bedpan 
  • Assisting with Urinals 
  • Assisting with Use of the Bedside Commode 
  • Guidelines for Caring for the Patient with Incontinence 
  • Promoting Normal Elimination 
  • Summary 
  • Assessment
  • Oxygen 
  • Oxygen Treatment 
  • Delivery Devices
  • Starting oxygen therapy 
  • Ongoing care of patients requiring oxygen therapy in the acute setting 
  • Competencies required for delivering oxygen therapy 
  • Summary 
  • Assessment
  • Introduction to Social Work
  • Methods of Social Work
  • Functions of Social Work
  • Scope of Social Work in the UK
  • How to Become a Social Worker
  • Summary
  • Assessment

 

  • Principles of Social Work Relationships
  • Ethics and Values in Social Work
  • Social Work Code of Conduct
  • The Law in Social Work
  • Summary

 

  • Assessment
  • What Is a Theory?
  • Types of Theories
  • Theories of the Human Life Course
  • Sociological and Psychological Approaches to Thinking
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Approaches to Social Work Practice
  • Sociology and Influential Social Theories
  • The Influence of Social Structure on Our Lives
  • Symbolic Interactionism in Sociology
  • Feminism and Its Relevance to Social Work Practice
  • Postmodernism and Its Relevance to Social Work Practice
  • Summary
  • Assessment
  • Teamwork and Its Importance 
  • What is effective teamwork?
  • Teamwork in Social Work
  • What is effective teamwork?
  • The 9 Team Roles
  • Interprofessional and Multi-Disciplinary Working
  • Effective Interprofessional Working
  • The Challenges of Interprofessional Working
  • The Casework Process
  • Models of Assessment
  • What Is an Assessment?
  • A Framework for Assessment
  • Principles of Assessment
  • Three Models of Assessment
  • Models of Treatment
  • The Importance of Service User’s Involvement 
  • Summary
  • Assessment
  • Relationships in Social Work
  • What Makes a Good Relationship?
  • Relationship-Based Practise
  • What Do Service Users Want?
  • Principles of Relationship-Based Practise
  • Counselling in Social Work
  • What Is Counselling?
  • What Is Psychodynamic Counselling?
  • Person-Centred Counselling
  • Personal Construct Theory
  • Community Practice in Social Work
  • What Is Community?
  • The Four Types of Communities
  • Clarifying Terms and Ideas
  • Community Work and Community Development
  • Principles and Values in Community Social Work
  • Intervention Models
  • Crisis Intervention
  • What Are the Different Types of Crisis?
  • Factors that Affect Stability
  • The ABC of Assessing a Crisis
  • What Is the Crisis Intervention Model?
  • The Seven-Stage Model of Crisis Intervention (Roberts, 1990)
  • Task-Centred Intervention
  • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Its Place in Social Work
  • Narrative Therapy
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
  • Summary
  • Working with Children and Young People in Social Work
  • Life Space Theory
  • Opportunity Led Intervention
  • Crisis Intervention
  • Substance Misuse and Social Work
  • Defining Substance Misuse
  • Service Provision for Substance Misusers
  • Patterns of Substance Use
  • Assessments and Assessing Risk
  • Methods of Intervention in Working with Individuals with Substance Problems
  • The 12-step approach
  • Summary
  • Assessment
  • Mental Health
  • The Difference between Mental Health and Mental Illness
  • Understanding Health
  • Understanding Illness
  • Social Work Practice and Mental Health
  • Learning Disabilities
  • Defining Learning Disabilities
  • Causes of Learning Disabilities
  • Context
  • Key Issues in Context
  • Models of Working
  • Disability and Sensory Impairment
  • Defining Disabilities
  • The Social Model of Disability
  • Bridges Transition Model
  • Social Work Interventions with Older People
  • Ageing, Mental Health and Vulnerability
  • The Wider Context
  • Life Changes, Bereavement, Loss of Career, End of Life
  • Summary
  • Assessment
  • Social Worker Guidelines
  • The Professional Capabilities Framework (PCF)
  • Research Practice
  • The Importance of Research to Practice
  • What Does Good Research Look Like?
  • Job Roles in Adult Social Care
  • Care Roles – Defined
  • Code of Conduct for Adult Social Care Workers
  • Principles of Health and Social Care Practice
  • Principles of Support
  • Implement Policies and Procedures
  • Understand the Theories that Underpin Practice
  • Knowing Your Role and Responsibilities
  • Your Role as a Caregiver
  • Summary
  • Assessment

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