This module is designed to explore the concepts that underpin integrated care within and beyond the NHS. It is intended to be interprofessional and to explore the role of professional workers with a shared vision to improve the integration of care between health and care services. Subjects covered will include Government policies, social determinants, mental health, the non-statutory sector, the secondary - primary care interface, and health and social care partnerships.

Available as a standalone module: Yes

Attendance (Please note, this is subject to change for future intakes)

Days: Tuesdays

Dates: See top of page

Times: 10am-4pm

Venue: LSBU Southwark Campus

Typical intake(s): Semester 1

Career Benefits

This module seeks to provide focus and direction for practitioners who wish to develop their skills and expertise in caring for acute care patients in primary and secondary care settings across the age spectrum. The module aims to enable an individual practitioner to have broader competence skills to progress in a direction that meets workforce delivery, meeting the needs of the future NHS as outlines in the Five Year Forward View in 2014 by the Department of Health (DH,2014) and the HEE agenda for Clinical Academic Careers Framework (HEE 2015).

Encompasses multi-professional working and a sharing of expertise and skills across traditional professional boundaries and fields as new services and roles are being developed to meet current and future challenges for health promotion and pre and postoperative care delivery. Completion of this module should help the practitioner to be in a better position to progress in their career and to work in settings with patients who have long-term conditions.

Assessment

• Case Study

Assessment/submission date: See attendance dates

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding: 

• Ability to appraise the principles of Integrated Care and incorporate these principles into their specialist area of practice.
• Appreciates the impact of living with a range of Long Term Conditions (LTC)s from a health & social care perspective.
• Reviews & relates Government & Social care policy to the delivery of care.
• Can discuss the concept of self-care and empowerment, the role of the expert patient programme and carers while providing advocacy for service users as appropriate.
• Ability to recognises and address relevant ethical issues.
• Appreciates the role of interdisciplinary working.

Intellectual skills:

• Demonstrate critical thinking skills.
• Demonstrate research awareness and a commitment to evidence based and leadership practice.
• Demonstrate professional behaviour in addressing service users’ needs.

Practical Skills:

• Enhanced communication skills particularly focusing on listening to service user narratives.
• Use of health promotion strategies to influence behaviour.
• Ensuring effective record keeping.
• Maintaining confidentiality.

Transferable skills:

• Demonstrate effective communication skills.
• Self-directed learning strategies.
• Reflection and critical analysis of own and others’ functioning in order to improve practice.
• Use of information technology.
• Critical decision making skills.
   

Courses this module can contribute to

• BSc (Hons) Professional Nursing Practice (Orthopaedic Care)
• Graduate Diploma in Professional Nursing Practice (Orthopaedic Care)
• Graduate Certificate in Professional Nursing Practice (Orthopaedic Care)
• BSc (Hons) Professional Nursing Practice (Spinal Cord Injury Care)
• Graduate Diploma in Professional Nursing Practice (Spinal Cord Injury Care)
• Graduate certificate in Professional Nursing Practice (Spinal Cord Injury Care)