Module Specifications.
Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025
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Date posted: September 2024
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Coursework Only Students must successfully undertake prescribed module work as determined by coordinator |
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Description This module provides the student with knowledge for the management of chronic and complex health problems across the lifespan. Students will learn to perform and prioritise chronic and complex assessments using clinical decision-making principles; enhance their critical thinking and clinical judgment skills, and in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team, employ appropriate interventions to optimize individual's state of health within their chronic disease condition. Students will study the complex needs, safety, risk assessment, physical, psychological, spiritual and social well-being of individuals. The concept of ‘patient as partner’ within chronic care management frameworks is emphasised. Leadership, self-direction and sound nursing judgment are employed to maximize patient outcomes based on best available evidence. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Learning Outcomes 1. Formulate a systematic approach (planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluating) for individuals with chronic and complex health conditions and comorbidities to optimize health outcomes. 2. Organize complex presentation data to formulate differential diagnoses and prioritize a plan of care. 3. Demonstrate ability to select and interpret findings of appropriate screening and diagnostic tests in specified conditions in diverse populations. 4. Integrate evidence-based science and best practice guidelines to optimise standards of care in individuals requiring an inter- and intra-disciplinary perspective to care using a person-centered nursing framework. 5. Evaluate chronic disease management models of care, in particular the Chronic Care Management Framework. 6. Critically appraise professional, ethical, socioeconomically, cultural and environmental determinants of health. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml |
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Indicative Content and Learning Activities
Indicative Content• Comprehensive approach to care • Prevention, detection and management of chronic disease • Patient as partner • Frameworks for the management of chronic and complex problems • Functional assessment and age-related changes • Therapeutic plan, safety, cost, practice guidelines, evidence-based practice • Health promotion, determinants of health • Multidisciplinary team approach to care and referral • Polypharmacy and complex pharmacological regimes as related to chronic disease • Individual, family and community issues as related to common an complex conditions | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Indicative Reading List
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Other Resources None | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||