Integrated and Multidisciplinary Care
Contribute to joined-up health and social care around the person's goals.
How to prepare for the NMC Nursing Associate CBT
Combine unit-safe calculation with newly qualified nursing associate judgement across all ages and settings, grounded in the Code, scope, person-centred care, teamwork and escalation.
Core concepts
Concept 1
Integrated care connects services without losing person-centred ownership.
Exam cue: Identify each service's role.
Concept 2
Safeguarding and complex needs often require coordinated multi-agency action.
Exam cue: Maintain the person's voice in the shared plan.
Risk pitfalls and guardrails
Duplicating or contradicting plans across teams.
Guardrail: Do not choose a familiar task if it ignores deterioration, consent, scope, communication or follow-up.
Sharing more information than necessary.
Guardrail: Do not choose a familiar task if it ignores deterioration, consent, scope, communication or follow-up.
Memory anchors
What is integrated care?
Coordinated services organised around the person's needs and goals.
What makes a shared plan usable?
Named roles, actions, monitoring and review.
What guides information sharing?
Lawfulness, necessity, proportionality and relevance.
When is multi-agency action needed?
When needs or risks cross service boundaries.
What remains central?
The person's preferences, safety and continuity.
Checkpoint rule
Do the check-up only after you can summarize each concept in one sentence and identify one dangerous pitfall from memory.
Knowledge Check (after reading)
Short check-up to confirm understanding of this module.
Check-up Questions
A person with complex needs has no named care coordinator. What should the nursing associate do?
Two services disagree about who should provide care. What is the nursing associate's best contribution?
Answer all questions to submit.
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Move forward only after this module is stable.
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