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Person-Centred Consultation & Physical Assessment Skills - HEA00141H

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  • Department: Health Sciences
  • Module co-ordinator: Mr. Mike Kitching
  • Credit value: 20 credits
  • Credit level: H
  • Academic year of delivery: 2024-25

Module will run

Occurrence Teaching period
B Spring Term 2024-25

Module aims

Demonstrate the ability to apply person-centred assessment and consultation skills, optimise medicines and make effective decisions in your chosen Field of Practice to prepare for prescriber readiness following registration with the NMC.

Module learning outcomes

By the end of the module, students will be able to:

  1. Apply systematic and rigorous history-taking process, underpinned by a holistic consultation model.
  2. As part of a person-centred consultation, safely undertake a systems based approach to the assessment of an individual.
  3. In collaboration with the individual, formulate a nursing management plan, incorporating supported and shared decision making.
  4. Apply principles of medicines optimisation, including shared decision making, to identifying and responding to complexities such as de-prescribing and polypharmacy.
  5. Demonstrate your understanding of evidence-based decision making in complex care.

Assessment

Task Length % of module mark
Objective Structured Clinical Examination - HS Dpt
OSCE		 N/A 100

Special assessment rules

Non-compensatable

Additional assessment information

Reassessment

Task Length % of module mark
Objective Structured Clinical Examination - HS Dpt
OSCE		 N/A 100

Module feedback

Written feedback for the summative assessment is provided on the standard proforma, within the timescale specified in the programme handbook.

Indicative reading

Ashelford, S., Raynsford, J., Taylor, V. (2016) Pathophysiology and pharmacology for nursing students. Sage Publication. London.

Mulryan, C. (2016) Clinical Assessment for Nurses. Sage publications.

Woodrow, P. (2016) Nursing acutely ill adults. Routledge.


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