NUR4135 - Promoting Health and Preventing Ill Health of Individuals, Communities, and Populations

Objectives:

On successful completion of the module, apprentices will be able to:

1 - Discuss the principles of epidemiology, demography and genomics and factors that may influence a range of health inequalities and patterns of health and disease.

2 - Evaluate a range of public health and health education strategies/interventions and explain how they can be utilised to promote and prevent ill health across the lifespan.

3 - Accurately use data to identify health needs and make recommendations for public health and health promotion interventions to improve health and wellbeing.

4 - Communicate with diverse audiences selecting material and approaches to convey health promotion information considering beliefs, culture, values and personal choice of the individual.

5 - Explore behaviour change concepts and skills that enable individuals to make informed health related decisions at different stages of life.

Content:

This module aims to promote knowledge and understanding of health promotion, health protection and the prevention of ill-health to support self-management and independence across all fields, lifespan and aspects of health and social care. It is aligned to the NMC Standard, promoting health, and preventing ill health (NMC(2018) Standards of proficiency for Nursing Associates – Platform 2, recognising the Nurse Associate’s role in promoting, protecting health and contributing to the achievement of public health aims. The module will introduce you to principles, concepts and models of public health and health education to enable you to promote health and prevent disease and prolong valued life for people from diverse cultures and populations, of all ages and across all fields of nursing practice. You will explore global, national, and local socioeconomic, political, and ecological challenges in implementing and sustaining public health and health education initiatives including how the wider determinants of health and social injustice can lead to health inequalities across the social gradient. There will be an emphasis on empowerment, ethics, informed choice, participatory and stakeholder involvement, strengths-based approaches and social prescribing to the health and wellbeing improvement of individuals, families, and communities. You will understand how epidemiology, demography and genomics are used to measure population health needs, outcomes, and decisions for planning effective health promotion interventions and services and accurately locate, collect, and use health data to carry out health needs assessments of communities, appreciating how interprofessional approaches contribute to the quality of public health practice. You will study the evidence base for immunisations, vaccinations, herd immunity, infection prevention and control, communicable disease surveillance, antimicrobial stewardship and resistance and health screening programmes such as the NHS Health Check and identify factors which may act as barriers, approaches to making reasonable adjustments and improving the uptake of such interventions. You will examine theories and models of behaviour change and health education in relation to lifestyle behaviours, smoking, nutrition, alcohol, substance misuse and sexual health. You will explore health education and promotion strategies and interventions for pre-conception, pregnancy, and infancy, understanding the importance of early years and childhood experiences and their possible impact on future life choices. You will identify the communication and relationship skills to explore the impact of co-morbidities on patient experience and outcomes, enable health prompting conversations using a range of approaches including brief interventions, social prescribing, Making Every Contact Count, motivational interviewing, health literacy and health coaching to promote and support positive behaviour change to help people manage co-morbidities and long-term conditions.

Learning and Teaching Information:

Research informed key lectures will introduce the weekly content of the module identifying theories/principles/concepts enabling you to develop your knowledge and skills. This will be supported by blended learning pre and post session activities on Moodle and you will be expected to engage with a range of activities including pre-reading to prepare you for lectures and follow-on activities to enable ongoing self and tutor assessment of your progress and application of knowledge and skills. The lecture content will be supported by seminars enabling smaller group discussion where you will consolidate your knowledge and critically engage with best evidence to support your professional development and to apply your learning to clinical practice, activities will include role play, problem-based learning, and practice-based scenario exploration. Where appropriate specialist practitioners and service users and carers will be invited to contribute to sessions to increase the authenticity of lived experience of the module content and highlight employability links. Learning styles will be supported by a variety of resources including videos, reading material, discussion and debate, e-learning modules, problem solving and practical tasks. You will be expected to utilise appropriate digital technologies and study skills to engage with additional resources and in independently directing your own learning.

Planned LTU Off-the-Job Delivery Learning:

Lectures
Hours: 36
Intended Group Size: Cohort

Seminars
Hours: 18
Intended Group Size: 30

Directed Study
Hours: 6
Intended Group Size: Individual



Minimum Self-Directed Off the Job Learning (e.g. Self-directed Study)
Hours: 90



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 assessment task with feedback provided at least one week prior to summative submission.

Case Study Report 1500 words: You will analyse a local community health profile to assess and explain the health needs of a vulnerable group, community or population. You will make recommendations for public health and/or health promotion interventions to improve health and wellbeing considering the role of the nursing associate in this and socio-economic, political, and ecological challenges in implementing such initiatives. You will also evaluate a range of evidence-based, best practice communication approaches/strategies for providing health promotion to support healthy lifestyle and positive behaviour change.

Apprentices should be referred to Module Handbooks for full details of how to approach this assessment.

Please note that there is no compensation, each component must be passed at 40% - NMC regulations.

Assessment:

Fact File

Module Coordinator - PRS_CODE=
Level - 4
Credit Value - 15
Pre-Requisites - NONE
Semester(s) Offered - 4AP

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