Bio 3: Person-Centred Consultation & Physical Assessment Skills - HEA00159H
- Department: Health Sciences
- Credit value: 20 credits
- Credit level: H
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Academic year of delivery: 2025-26
- See module specification for other years: 2024-25
Module summary
N/A
Professional requirements
Compulsory module for PRSB requirements
Module will run
| Occurrence | Teaching period |
|---|---|
| B | Spring Term 2025-26 |
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.
Module content
The following concepts and processes essential to health and
well-being will be covered:
Assessment of body systems; Genomics;
Medicines optimization; Nursing as an intervention; History
Taking; Consultation Skills; Decision making
Indicative assessment
| Task | % of module mark |
|---|---|
| Oral presentation/seminar/exam | 100.0 |
Special assessment rules
Non-compensatable
Indicative reassessment
| Task | % of module mark |
|---|---|
| Oral presentation/seminar/exam | 100.0 |
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.