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)

Dates: See top of page

Times: 10am-4pm

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 development, 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.

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.
• Consider comparative models of care management with examples of new ways of working, integrating practice and the national policy agenda.
• Understands the key components of care and the systems that exist to support an ageing population to live in a community setting.
• Development of practice within a multidisciplinary and interprofessional environment based on a critical examination of the effectiveness of current practice.
• Explore the physical, psychological and social features of individuals encountered in practice settings and to develop the knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviours the senior practitioner must possess to enable successful patient centred care and patient focused management.
• Critically appraise the global and national impact of demographic changes in the population and the impact of chronic illness on health care provision.
• Appreciates the impact of living with a range of Long Term Conditions from a health & social care perspective
  Reviews & relates Government & Social cares policy to the delivery of care.
• Can discuss the concept of self-care and empowerment, the role of the expert patient programme and carers
  Recognises the ethical issues that surround patients with chronic conditions.
• Understands the role of interdisciplinary working
  

Intellectual skills:

• Demonstrate complex critical thinking skills.
• Critically evaluate mechanisms that exist to support patients within our health and care systems.
• Demonstrate knowledge of research processes and a commitment to evidence based practice.
• Demonstrate professional and leadership behaviour in meeting the patients’ and carers’ 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:

• Self-directed learning strategies.
• Reflection and critical analysis of own and others functioning in order to improve practice.
• Use of information technology.
• Influencing and negotiating skills
   

Courses this module can contribute to

• MSc in Nursing (Orthopaedic Care)
• Postgraduate Diploma in Nursing (Orthopaedic Care)
• Postgraduate Certificate in Nursing (Orthopaedic Care)