Professional Issues in Palliative Care

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

In the palliative care setting there are specific professional issues affecting you working within a multiprofessional team. This module examines some of these professional issues.

Aims of the Module

To examine within the palliative care setting professional issues that relate to patient management by the multi-professional team.

Module Content

This module identifies and reviews five key areas:

Communication: personal and interpersonal communication is examined, alongside exploring environmental factors which can facilitate or impede communication.
Team working: the dynamics of team working are explored within the context of the student's own practice setting.
Surviving change: palliative care is an area of health care which is particularly subject to change and the student is encouraged to develop a set of survival skills.
Effectiveness: using audit and research results the student will critically analyse the effectiveness of palliative care. Students will also learn about differences between audit and research processes and activities.
Ethical issues: the student will explore and identify a framework for ethical decision-making and reflection, suited to palliative care. This will then be related to the student's own practice situation.

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.