Complex Care Delivery
| Code | School | Level | Credits | Semesters |
| NURS4196 | Nursing | 4 | 20 | Autumn UK |
- Code
- NURS4196
- School
- Nursing
- Level
- 4
- Credits
- 20
- Semesters
- Autumn UK
Summary
This course considers:
- Family and care delivery
- Mental health, behavioural, social, spiritual, cognitive and learning challenges, psychosocial and physical presentations including anxiety, confusion and pain.
- Improvement strategies, methodologies and managing risk
- Screening programmes in health care and the psychological impact on the individual
- Complex care assessment, planning, delivery and decision making.
- The place of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in health care
- Professional issues, ethics and values in relation to preparation for prescribing:
- Consultation, decision making, change behaviours and self-care interventions including referral.
- Influences on and psychology of prescribing.
- Prescribing in a team context.
- Clinical pharmacology including effects of co morbidity.
- Evidence based practice and clinical governance.
- Legal policy and ethical aspects of prescribing.
- Professional accountability and responsibility.
- Prescribing in a public health context.
- Principles of pathogenesis, immunology and the evidence base for immunisation, vaccination, herd immunity and vaccine hesitancy
Target Students
MSc Nursing (Graduate Entry Nursing)Students
Classes
Total hours 220 140 Theory Hours which consists of directed learning, self-directed learning, lectures and seminars. 80 Clinical Learning Hours
Assessment
- 100% Exam (1-hour-30-minute): ExamSys Exam
Assessed by end of designated period
Educational Aims
This course aims to provide students with the knowledge and skills to manage patients/clients requiring complex care. Students will learn to integrate and apply psychosocial, pathophysiological and pharmacological knowledge to deliver holistic care.Learning Outcomes
Critically evaluate the pathophysiology and impact of multimorbidity on the psychosocial and physical wellbeing of individuals and approaches to complex care across a population.
Critically appraise influences on safe prescribing practice at individual, local and national levels, including guidelines, policies, professional values and ethics, and accurate timely communication.
Develop evidence based and person-centred approaches to consulting with people to promote wellness and support individuals to change behaviours and self-care.
Critically analyse approaches to managing risk in both community and inpatient care settings.
Evaluate the effects of national vaccination programmes on population health and the importance of immunisation in the context of comorbidities and complex care needs.
Judge the role of health screening and its potential to cause harm versus its ability to reduce the burden of multimorbidity on individuals and health care services.