NUR5005 - Promoting Health and Wellbeing Across the Lifespan

Objectives:

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

1. Critically discuss the aims and principles of health promotion, protection and improvement, reflecting on the socio-economic, political, and ecological challenges in implementing public health initiatives.

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. Locate, select, present, and discuss relevant health data to identify the health needs of a vulnerable group or community and make recommendations for public health and health promotion interventions to improve health and wellbeing.

4. Evaluate a range of evidence-based, best practice communication approaches for providing health promotion and education therapeutic interventions to support positive behaviour change.

5. Reflect on communication and relationship skills that facilitates health promoting conversations utilising evidence-based approaches to enable healthy lifestyle behaviours.

Content:

This module will introduce you to principles, concepts and models of public health and health education to enable you, as a future nurse 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. Finally, you will apply communication and relationship skills to 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 their long-term conditions.

Learning and Teaching Information:

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.

(1). Group presentation. You will work in a small group and develop a 10 mins presentation (negotiated style) to analyse a local community health profile to assess the health needs of a vulnerable group. You will make recommendations for public health and health promotion interventions to improve health and wellbeing considering the socio-economic, political, and ecological challenges in implementing such initiatives.
NB: Alternative assessment for mitigating circumstances and exceptional resits will be a 2000-word report following the above guidelines.

(2). Reflective Essay: You will reflect on a health promoting conversation you have held with a service user or carer whilst on placement. Use a reflective model or framework to consider the communication and relationship skills that you used to support the health promoting conversation. Ensure you evaluate a range of evidence-based, best practice communication approaches for providing health promotion and education therapeutic interventions to support healthy lifestyle and positive behaviour change.

The assessments will allow you to demonstrate knowledge, skills and understanding of concepts and approaches to public health, health education and promotion and therapeutic interventions to support healthy lifestyles and behaviour change 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.

Assessment:

001 Group presentation; 10 mins; Mid-block 3 50%
002 Reflective Essay; 1000 words; End block 3 50%

Fact File

Module Coordinator - PRS_CODE=
Level - 5
Credit Value - 15
Pre-Requisites - NONE
Semester(s) Offered - 5NUR3

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