Challenging and changing the experience of pain

Snapshot

Courses available:

Academic award	SCOTCAT award	Academic status	Course length
This module can be undertaken on a stand-alone basis or as part of the Bachelor of Nursing (BN), Bachelor of Nursing (Palliative Care)(BNPC) or Master of Palliative Care (MPC).	20 points at Level 3 (SHE), 20 points at Level M (SHE)	Undergraduate and postgraduate	200 hours of student effort (including assessment)

Academic School:

Distance Learning Centre (Nursing & Palliative Care)

How to apply:

Visit the Distance Learning Centre webpage

Fees:

Please contact us for fees information (below).

Module Content

Although knowledge of pain and evidence on pain management are growing, the experience of pain continues to be a generic issue in health care.

This module aims to enable you to have a direct influence on pain and to improve the quality of pain management in your area of clinical practice.The module addresses how pain in a variety of different situations, for example pain as experienced by children, pain for the cancer patient and acute pain for the patient following surgery, is assessed.

You will explore key principles which are important in pain management, whatever the context.

For further information please see the module information on www.dundee.ac.uk/medden/dlc/

Assessment

The module assessment is practice focused and aims to facilitate the development of professional practice. Students are encouraged to engage with self-assessment activities throughout the learning experience. Formative assessment enables students to develop practice and academic process skills through tutor feed-back.

Student Support

A text-based study guide is used to support learning for this module. The study guide helps the student make essential links between theory and practice and prepare for the module assessment. A dynamic tutorial support system operates with a tutor link to the module. Students are encouraged to use the tutorial system according to their need.