Integrative Health and Social Care
MSc

Module learning outcomes

On completion of this module, you will be able to:

1. Critically appraise the impact of integrative professional practice relating to a chosen arena of practice or to a field of enquiry
2. Critically evaluate the form and approach of a range of academic writing styles and your appropriateness for different audiences
3. Self-assess the information literacy skills gained and your relevance to masters level study

Module content

• Introduction to integrative advanced practice
• Information literacy skills for masters level study
• Decision making and problem solving
• Autonomous practice
• Critical thinking
• Values based care
• Reading statistics
• Ethics
• Improving practice
• Features of critical reflection
• Evidence based practice

This module will be delivered online using a variety of learning packages to explore aspects of diagnostic reasoning, pharmacology and medicines management to enable you to develop a sound knowledge base to support your clinical practice. The use of a case study within the assessment will facilitate application of the relevant evidence base within your own clinical area so enhancing links between theory and practice.

Module learning outcomes

On successful completion of this module, you will be able to:

1. Identify and critically analyse the practical, legal, ethical and administrative issues relating to drug administration
2. Explore and critically discuss aspects of diagnostic reasoning and pharmacokinetics relevant to a range of medications used in patient care
3. Critically analyse how therapeutics impact on patient care through exploration of a range of common clinical conditions
4. Critically review alternative approaches and perspectives to care

Module content

Drug administration

• Accountability
• Roles and responsibilities
• Safe storage and disposal of drugs

Diagnostic reasoning

• Modes of consultation and health history taking
• The use and interpretation of investigations to inform drug choice

Pharmacokinetics

• Absorption
• Side effects and interaction of drugs
• Distribution
• Elimination
• Routes of administration

The use and effect of drugs in clinical conditions

• Cardiovascular disorders
• Hypertension
• Chronic obstructive airways disease
• Gastroentereological disorders
• Pain Control
• Antibiotics

The use of drugs in mental health

• Anti-depressants
• Psychotrophics
• Anxiolytics

Alternative perspectives on health and care

Numeracy

Mathematics applied to the administration of drugs

Graduate skills

• Calculations and mathematics applied to health
• Team participation and leadership
• Accountability
• Responsibility

Digital skills

You will also be given the opportunity to develop digital skills through the use of interactive technology, eg discussion forums, personal blog.

This module will enable you to:

• Participate in online discussion forums
• Use online simulations
• Use a variety of online resources

In an increasingly litigious culture, the interface between health care and law is also becoming increasingly important. Professional practitioners need to be able to engage with these issues in a coherent and confident way. Such issues arise at all levels, policy, organisation, team and individual patient care, and the module programme also seeks to address all these levels. This module will assist you the practitioner to recognise and engage with these issues by application of the principles to the practice situation.

Module learning outcomes

On completion of this module, you will be able to:

1. Critically analyse ethical and legal issues relevant to health care practice and policy, incorporating critical application of selected theoretical perspectives relevant to ethics in health
2. Understand and apply relevant ethical arguments and legal perspectives to a specific practice situation

Module content

• Theories of ethics
• Professional & Interprofessional ethics
• Legal principles relevant to health care
• Autonomy, consent and confidentiality
• Duty of Care
• Quality of life
• Decisions at the beginning and end of life
• Rationing of health care
• Organisations in health care
• Professional standards and guidance
• Policy, Legal frameworks
• Managing change

Module learning outcomes

On completion of this module, you will be able to:

1. Critically appraise your own leadership skills against a defined set of leadership theories and styles
2. Critically reflect on specific inter-professional leadership issues detailing, solutions and outcomes
3. Critically evaluate the impact of local, national and international policies and practices on leadership

Module content

• Leadership & organisational theory
• Strategic leadership
• Organisational culture
• Leaderships relation with innovation
• Use of social media
• Developing leadership capability
• Leadership styles and contexts/leadership trends
• Collaborative leadership across health and social care organisations
• Personal impact and influence
• Leadership in the health and social care arena
• Client consultant relationships
• Roles in a team, team building and appraisal
• Improving group dynamics, team management skills
• Commissioning and procuring public services
• Clinical and corporate governance: accountability, safeguarding, improving quality
• Developing compassionate leadership through mindfulness
• Communication for the leader in a modern healthcare environment (leadership and networking)
• Politics power and conflict
• Communication for the leader in a modern healthcare environment
• Negotiation and persuasion
• Return on investment
• Training needs analysis

Through this module you will gain the skills to lead quality and service improvements, understand the value of effective strategic management and develop skills in professional judgement and problem solving.

Module learning outcomes

On completion of this module, you will be able to: 

1. Critically examine management issues in health and social care practice 
2. Critically evaluate and demonstrate personal management skills
3. Critically evaluate your own influence  on changes/improvements through professional networks

Module content

• People management: power politics and conflict
• Process management
• Project management: commissioning, procurement and contracting for care services
• Technology management
• Information management organisational structure
• Financial management: financial skills for decision making, introducing finance, budget monitoring
• Change management
• Management theory
• Innovative problem solving, professional judgement
• Networking
• Audit and evaluation
• Awareness of law ethics and policy
• Quality and service improvement
• Complaints management and root cause analysis
• Strategic business and service planning
• Social networking for influence
• Return on investment
• Training needs analysis

Module learning outcomes

On completion of this module, you will be able to:

• Agree, complete and submit an appropriate piece of academic work in line with the learning contract and level of study

Module content

Students undertaking this module will negotiate a contract of learning with the Associate Academic or delegated supervisor. This will be a written agreement dated and signed by both parties who will each have copies. The contract will contain the following elements:

• title
• rationale
• learning outcomes (approx 3 – 5)
• an outline of how the outcomes are to be met
• references indicating an appropriate literature search
• proposed schedule of work
• criteria for assessment
• methods of assessment including weightings if appropriate

Module learning outcomes

On completion of this module, you will be able to:

1. Create a framework for effective, collaborative high quality interventions based on person-centred care
2. Demonstrate an advanced understanding of multidisciplinary perspectives of dementia and approaches to care

Module content

• The professional, ethical and legal dilemmas associated with the care of individuals living with dementias in relation to context, quality of life, age and culture
• Leadership structures
• Models of practice management
• Person centred care including cognitive and behavioural methods of intervention
• Underpinning practice and use of evidence in dementia care
• Communication and compassion
• The impact and involvement of care givers and their families
• How a town “social network organisation” could become a supporter of dementia care

Module learning outcomes

On completion of this module, you will be able to:

1. Critically evaluate and compare the dynamics and challenges of the  essential elements of public health theory and practice
2. Propose ways in which Integrative care could be enhanced in relation to an identified global health issue

Module content

• Definitions and scope of public health
• Individual, community and population level approaches
• Healthy public policy
• Principles and essential elements of public health theory and practice
• Reflection for learning and public health practice
• The organisation of public health nationally and internationally
• Accessing and using demographic and epidemiological data and information for public health
• Exploring inequalities in health – the socioeconomic determinants of health
• Multi-disciplinary public health
• Exploring global public health activities
• Barriers to public health practice
• An introduction to evaluating public health initiatives
• Public health in a digital world

This module is suitable for a range of staff from health and social care settings such as adult nurses, mental health nurses, social workers and occupational therapists, but also including those who work in nursing homes and community settings, those who provide integrated services, Prison services and care for people with a diagnosis of dementia.

Module learning outcomes

On completion of this module, you will be able to:

1. Demonstrate a critical understanding of the context of health and social care initiatives in dementia care (locally, nationally and internationally)
2. Critically analyse barriers to maintaining personhood
3. Critically reflect on your own effectiveness in developing a service improvement project/initiative

Module content

• Models of Reflection
• Communication and Compassion
• Introduction to Dementia, diagnosis trajectory and treatment.
• Different approaches (Bio-Medical explanations of Dementia as an ‘impairment’, social model of disability
• Understanding Dementia from a socio-cultural perspective/ psychological perspective
• Factors influencing a loss of personhood
• The impact of stigma and attitudes towards individuals, their families and care givers
• Different models of care (person-centered care/ recovery model)
• The role of the professional in developing and applying best practice standards and the application of evidence and research
• Consider the measures of control and release of control over the quality of life
• Maintaining Independence
• Self-determination
• Right to life
• Government legislation eg, Mental Capacity Act (2005) European Union charter of fundamental rights (2013)

The focus of this module is on the critical exploration of the research methodologies and evaluation of the evidence base to increase clinical effectiveness. It has relevance for all health and social care professionals, but is particularly useful for those who have an interest in developing their skills of using research in practice, those who participate in decision making and for those who require grounding in essential elements of research methodologies and evidence based practice prior to undertaking independent scholarship.

Module learning outcomes

On completion of this module, you will be able to:

1. Critically analyse research literature and identify a topic for research
2. Critically evaluate the relevance of different research designs, methods and data analysis methods for this chosen topic
3. Critically evaluate the impact of ethical and practical factors affecting the conduct of research in the practice situation on this chosen topic

Module content

This module focuses on the research process to be able to understand and critically appraise published research, research design including quantitative and qualitative methodologies. Recognise the ethical constraints and how to analyse the findings from data collected using both qualitative and quantitative methodology.  The importance of appropriate disseminating research findings: including report writing and preparing for publication. Using research in Practice underpins the module, critically evaluation of evidence for evidence based practice.

This module will be delivered online using a variety of learning packages to explore aspects of diagnostic reasoning, pharmacology and medicines management to enable you to develop a sound knowledge base to support your clinical practice. The use of a case study within the assessment will facilitate application of the relevant evidence base within your own clinical area so enhancing links between theory and practice.

Module learning outcomes

On successful completion of this module, you will be able to:

1. Identify and critically analyse the practical, legal, ethical and administrative issues relating to drug administration
2. Explore and critically discuss aspects of diagnostic reasoning and pharmacokinetics relevant to a range of medications used in patient care
3. Critically analyse how therapeutics impact on patient care through exploration of a range of common clinical conditions
4. Critically review alternative approaches and perspectives to care

Module content

Drug administration

• Accountability
• Roles and responsibilities
• Safe storage and disposal of drugs

Diagnostic reasoning

• Modes of consultation and health history taking
• The use and interpretation of investigations to inform drug choice

Pharmacokinetics

• Absorption
• Side effects and interaction of drugs
• Distribution
• Elimination
• Routes of administration

The use and effect of drugs in clinical conditions

• Cardiovascular disorders
• Hypertension
• Chronic obstructive airways disease
• Gastroentereological disorders
• Pain Control
• Antibiotics

The use of drugs in mental health

• Anti-depressants
• Psychotrophics
• Anxiolytics

Alternative perspectives on health and care

Numeracy

Mathematics applied to the administration of drugs

Graduate skills

• Calculations and mathematics applied to health
• Team participation and leadership
• Accountability
• Responsibility

Digital skills

You will also be given the opportunity to develop digital skills through the use of interactive technology, eg discussion forums, personal blog.

This module will enable you to:

• Participate in online discussion forums
• Use online simulations
• Use a variety of online resources

In an increasingly litigious culture, the interface between health care and law is also becoming increasingly important. Professional practitioners need to be able to engage with these issues in a coherent and confident way. Such issues arise at all levels, policy, organisation, team and individual patient care, and the module programme also seeks to address all these levels. This module will assist you the practitioner to recognise and engage with these issues by application of the principles to the practice situation.

Module learning outcomes

On completion of this module, you will be able to:

1. Critically analyse ethical and legal issues relevant to health care practice and policy, incorporating critical application of selected theoretical perspectives relevant to ethics in health
2. Understand and apply relevant ethical arguments and legal perspectives to a specific practice situation

Module content

• Theories of ethics
• Professional & Interprofessional ethics
• Legal principles relevant to health care
• Autonomy, consent and confidentiality
• Duty of Care
• Quality of life
• Decisions at the beginning and end of life
• Rationing of health care
• Organisations in health care
• Professional standards and guidance
• Policy, Legal frameworks
• Managing change

Module learning outcomes

On completion of this module, you will be able to:

1. Critically appraise your own leadership skills against a defined set of leadership theories and styles
2. Critically reflect on specific inter-professional leadership issues detailing, solutions and outcomes
3. Critically evaluate the impact of local, national and international policies and practices on leadership

Module content

• Leadership & organisational theory
• Strategic leadership
• Organisational culture
• Leaderships relation with innovation
• Use of social media
• Developing leadership capability
• Leadership styles and contexts/leadership trends
• Collaborative leadership across health and social care organisations
• Personal impact and influence
• Leadership in the health and social care arena
• Client consultant relationships
• Roles in a team, team building and appraisal
• Improving group dynamics, team management skills
• Commissioning and procuring public services
• Clinical and corporate governance: accountability, safeguarding, improving quality
• Developing compassionate leadership through mindfulness
• Communication for the leader in a modern healthcare environment (leadership and networking)
• Politics power and conflict
• Communication for the leader in a modern healthcare environment
• Negotiation and persuasion
• Return on investment
• Training needs analysis

Through this module you will gain the skills to lead quality and service improvements, understand the value of effective strategic management and develop skills in professional judgement and problem solving.

Module learning outcomes

On completion of this module, you will be able to: 

1. Critically examine management issues in health and social care practice 
2. Critically evaluate and demonstrate personal management skills
3. Critically evaluate your own influence  on changes/improvements through professional networks

Module content

• People management: power politics and conflict
• Process management
• Project management: commissioning, procurement and contracting for care services
• Technology management
• Information management organisational structure
• Financial management: financial skills for decision making, introducing finance, budget monitoring
• Change management
• Management theory
• Innovative problem solving, professional judgement
• Networking
• Audit and evaluation
• Awareness of law ethics and policy
• Quality and service improvement
• Complaints management and root cause analysis
• Strategic business and service planning
• Social networking for influence
• Return on investment
• Training needs analysis

Module learning outcomes

On completion of this module, you will be able to:

• Agree, complete and submit an appropriate piece of academic work in line with the learning contract and level of study

Module content

Students undertaking this module will negotiate a contract of learning with the Associate Academic or delegated supervisor. This will be a written agreement dated and signed by both parties who will each have copies. The contract will contain the following elements:

• title
• rationale
• learning outcomes (approx 3 – 5)
• an outline of how the outcomes are to be met
• references indicating an appropriate literature search
• proposed schedule of work
• criteria for assessment
• methods of assessment including weightings if appropriate

Module learning outcomes

On completion of this module, you will be able to:

1. Create a framework for effective, collaborative high quality interventions based on person-centred care
2. Demonstrate an advanced understanding of multidisciplinary perspectives of dementia and approaches to care

Module content

• The professional, ethical and legal dilemmas associated with the care of individuals living with dementias in relation to context, quality of life, age and culture
• Leadership structures
• Models of practice management
• Person centred care including cognitive and behavioural methods of intervention
• Underpinning practice and use of evidence in dementia care
• Communication and compassion
• The impact and involvement of care givers and their families
• How a town “social network organisation” could become a supporter of dementia care

Module learning outcomes

On completion of this module, you will be able to:

1. Critically evaluate and compare the dynamics and challenges of the  essential elements of public health theory and practice
2. Propose ways in which Integrative care could be enhanced in relation to an identified global health issue

Module content

• Definitions and scope of public health
• Individual, community and population level approaches
• Healthy public policy
• Principles and essential elements of public health theory and practice
• Reflection for learning and public health practice
• The organisation of public health nationally and internationally
• Accessing and using demographic and epidemiological data and information for public health
• Exploring inequalities in health – the socioeconomic determinants of health
• Multi-disciplinary public health
• Exploring global public health activities
• Barriers to public health practice
• An introduction to evaluating public health initiatives
• Public health in a digital world

This module is suitable for a range of staff from health and social care settings such as adult nurses, mental health nurses, social workers and occupational therapists, but also including those who work in nursing homes and community settings, those who provide integrated services, Prison services and care for people with a diagnosis of dementia.

Module learning outcomes

On completion of this module, you will be able to:

1. Demonstrate a critical understanding of the context of health and social care initiatives in dementia care (locally, nationally and internationally)
2. Critically analyse barriers to maintaining personhood
3. Critically reflect on your own effectiveness in developing a service improvement project/initiative

Module content

• Models of Reflection
• Communication and Compassion
• Introduction to Dementia, diagnosis trajectory and treatment.
• Different approaches (Bio-Medical explanations of Dementia as an ‘impairment’, social model of disability
• Understanding Dementia from a socio-cultural perspective/ psychological perspective
• Factors influencing a loss of personhood
• The impact of stigma and attitudes towards individuals, their families and care givers
• Different models of care (person-centered care/ recovery model)
• The role of the professional in developing and applying best practice standards and the application of evidence and research
• Consider the measures of control and release of control over the quality of life
• Maintaining Independence
• Self-determination
• Right to life
• Government legislation eg, Mental Capacity Act (2005) European Union charter of fundamental rights (2013)

Module learning outcomes

On completion of this module, you will be able to:

1. Demonstrate the ability to work independently; developing thought-through courses of action determined by a comprehensive awareness of techniques applicable to your own scholarship
2. Critically appraise sources of evidence relating to a chosen area of practice in order to present an academic position
3. Respond to ethical issues and dilemmas when conducting independent scholarship