Maintaining the quality of life in the presence of distressing circumstances

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).

Overview

Palliative care patients and their families / carers are challenged by distressing symptoms and how this impacts on the patients well being. This module allows the student to explore these issues from a holistic perspective in a palliative care setting.

Module Aims

To explore approaches to supporting quality of life for palliative patients, who are challenged by specific problems.

Module Content

You will consider how patient's quality of life could be supported. You are given the opportunity to analyse and examine how the different distressing symptoms experienced by palliative care patients affect their health and well-being. These issues will be explored from a holistic perspective.

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.