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On successful completion of the module, students will be able to:
1. Use a variety of different models and approaches to define concepts of health, illness, and wellbeing from individual, group, and community perspectives.
2. Explain key sociological and psychological theories and factors and discuss their utility for culturally informed nursing practice.
3. Discuss the social determinants of health and their impact on individuals, communities and populations and apply these to patterns of health and illness outcomes.
4. Apply, integrate, and assess how health inequalities, issues of diversity and social injustice can influence an individual or group experience of health and illness.
5. Explain how psychological perspectives can influence emotional reactions to life events, health and illness, including end of life care, and inform evidence-based nursing care.
This module will provide a foundation in psychosocial theories and concepts enabling you to explore their complex interactions, how they influence health and wellbeing outcomes of individuals, communities, and populations across the lifespan and how the study of epidemiology, demography and genomics informs our understanding of how illness and disease occur in different groups of people and why. You will develop knowledge of the social determinants of health and factors that influence this, for example age, gender, disability, culture, education, sexual orientation, poverty and employment. You will explore causes and effects of inequalities on health and social care for diverse groups such as minority ethnic communities, vulnerable children and adults and ageing populations, enabling you to understand the role of the nurse as an advocate and political agent for equality, diversity and inclusion by challenging oppression and social injustice through culturally informed practice. You will understand how psychological theories and factors can influence the way people perceive health and wellbeing and adjust to, cope with, and recover from illness, including lifespan development, cognitive processes, health literacy, lifestyle behaviour, personality, stress, grief and loss, motivation, stigma, pain, addiction and substance misuse, the sick role, and locus of control. You will apply psychological concepts to health promotion and education as well as prevention and treatment of disease and illness to support self-management, recovery and end of life care. Finally, you will be introduced to research methodologies, literature searching and the review of evidence to enable application of theory to practice.
This module will also enable you to complete the knowledge components of the following Care Certificate Standards (you will be able to complete the skills components on Practice 2):
Standard 4: Awareness of Equality, Diversity and Human Rights
Standard 9: Awareness of mental health, dementia and learning disability
You will be taught in mixed field groups allowing you to benefit from others individual experiences and perspectives. Key lectures will be delivered to all fields together and seminars will be a combination of mixed field groups and some field specific groups where content and discussion has a specialised focus for a particular field of nursing expertise. 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.
Lectures
Hours: 42
Intended Group size: Full cohort
Seminars
Hours: 28
Intended Group size: 25
Guided independent study
Hours: 130
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.
Presentation: You will develop a 5-minute presentation (negotiated style) where you will define concepts of health, wellbeing, and illness and how these may influence attitudes and behaviour to health, wellbeing, and illness. You will then select one psychological theory and one psychological factor and discuss how this can relate to an individual’s perspective towards health, wellbeing, and illness and how this can inform evidence base nursing care.
Case Study Report: You will write a 1500-word case study report. You will be able to choose from a range of different case studies and you will discuss how one social factor and one social theory supports your understanding of an individual or family’s current health and wellbeing situation. You will consider the impact of health inequality and social justice, using health data to support your arguments and discuss your role in promoting inclusive culturally informed care and anti-discriminatory practice.
The assessments will allow you to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of concepts and theories relevant to social and psychological aspects of health, wellbeing and illness as applied to nursing practice.
Note that compensation is not permitted. Each assessment component must be passed at a minimum of 40% (NMC regulations), unless otherwise stipulated.
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Level - 4
Credit Value - 15
Pre-Requisites - NONE
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