Bio 2: Biological & Pharmacological Aspects of Illness Across the Lifespan - HEA00172I
Module summary
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Professional requirements
Compulsory module for PRSB requirements
Module will run
Occurrence | Teaching period |
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B | Summer Term 2024-25 |
Module aims
Building on their understanding of human biology and pharmacology from Stage 1, students will examine the aetiology and pathophysiology of disease and therapeutics of drugs and medicines optimisation.
Module learning outcomes
By the end of the module, students will be able to:
1. Explain
the key mechanisms of disease and biological and genomic risk factors
associated with disease.
2.Apply this knowledge and understanding to the nursing care of the
most common conditions across the lifespan.
3. Discuss how
pharmacological interventions may impact on disease and ill health,
recognising
therapeutics, adverse effects and minimising or
avoiding harm.
4. Describe the ways in which research and forms
of evidence influence understanding of ill
health,
pathophysiology and pharmacology.
Module content
The following concepts and processes essential to health and
well-being will be covered:
Ill-health and disease;
Lifespan/developmental differences; Genomics (abnormal cell division);
Mental health
diagnoses; Cell transportation (with a focus on
education for medicines); Immunity/infection and
inflammation;
Abnormal perfusion; Hormonal imbalances; Thermoregulatory imbalances;
Metabolic
disorders; Loss of consciousness; Therapeutics,
Pharmaceutics and associated Legislation; Reflection and the
Nursing Process.
Indicative assessment
Task | % of module mark |
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Closed/in-person Exam (Centrally scheduled) | 100.0 |
Special assessment rules
Non-compensatable
Indicative reassessment
Task | % of module mark |
---|---|
Closed/in-person Exam (Centrally scheduled) | 100.0 |
Module feedback
Students are provided with collective exam feedback relating to their
cohort, within the timescale specified in
the programme handbook.
Indicative reading
Waugh, A and Grant, A. (2018). Ross and Wilson Anatomy and Physiology
in Health and Illness. 13th edition.
Churchill Livingston.
Giddens, J. (2017). Concepts for Nursing Practice. 2 edition.
Elsevier. Blows, W. (2018).
The Biological Basis of Clinical
Observations. 3 edition. Routledge. Ashelford, S., Raynsford, J., and
Taylor, V.
(2019). Pathophysiology and Pharmacology, Sage