SHN5013 - Applying Health and Social Care Policy, Ethics and Law

Objectives:

Assessment tasks are designed to enable students to demonstrate the Learning and Employability outcomes for the relevant level of study. Level Learning Outcomes are embedded in the assessment task(s) at that level. This enables a more integrated view of overall student performance at each level.

Content:

The module will cover contemporary health and social care policy and legislation from an international, national and regional socio-political perspective. You will evaluate how policy and legislation impacts access to and development of service provision as well as its effectiveness in improving health and social care outcomes. You will investigate equality and diversity, human rights, safeguarding, criminal justice, Mental Health and Mental Capacity Acts considering the role of culture, advocacy, choice and empowerment. To support this, theories and concepts of ethics will be explored using case studies to enable discussion of how to respond to ethical dilemmas in health and social care practice.

Learning and Teaching Information:

Lectures
Hours: 25
Intended Group Size: Full Cohort

Seminars
Hours: 25
Intended Group Size: Max 20

Guided independent study
Hours: 250

Further details relating to assessment
Post session activities submitted through Moodle will facilitate ongoing formative assessment opportunities via lecturer or peer feedback, these may include responses to case studies, quizzes, forum posts or blogs and self-assessment. One draft opportunity will be provided for each summative assessment with feedback provided at least one week prior to submission.

Poster Presentation: your academic poster will explain the importance of culturally competent practice in supporting equality, diversity and inclusive health and social care practice. You will present your poster to peers and have the opportunity to defend it with Q & A.

Portfolio: You will complete 2 tasks including (1) A reflection on an ethical dilemma case study explaining your approach to resolving this in practice (2) create a timeline demonstrating your knowledge of either safeguarding OR equality and diversity policy/legislation and its application to service provision/delivery.

The assessment tasks will allow you to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of contemporary health and social care policy and legislation as applied to practice.

Assessment:

001 Poster presentation; 10 minutes (plus 5 mins Q&A; mid semester 1 25%
002 Portfolio; 4,500 words or equivalent; end of semester 1 75%

Fact File

Module Coordinator - Faith Ikioda
Level - 5
Credit Value - 30
Pre-Requisites - NONE
Semester(s) Offered - 5S1

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