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2022-232023-24
Module will run
Occurrence
Teaching period
A
Autumn Term 2024-25 to Spring Term 2024-25
Module aims
Building on their understanding of human biology and pharmacology from Stage 1, students will examine the aetiology and pathophysiology of disease and therapeutics of drugs and medicines optimisation.
Module learning outcomes
By the end of the module, students will be able to:
Explain the key mechanisms of disease and biological and genomic risk factors associated with disease.
Apply this knowledge and understanding to the nursing care of the most common conditions across the lifespan.
Discuss how pharmacological interventions may impact on disease and ill health, recognising therapeutics, adverse effects and minimizing or avoiding harm.
Describe the ways in which research and forms of evidence influence understanding of ill health, pathophysiology and pharmacology.
Indicative assessment
Task
% of module mark
Closed/in-person Exam (Centrally scheduled)
100
Special assessment rules
Non-compensatable
Indicative reassessment
Task
% of module mark
Closed/in-person Exam (Centrally scheduled)
100
Module feedback
Students are provided with collective exam feedback relating to their cohort, within the timescale specified in the programme handbook.
Indicative reading
Waugh, A and Grant, A. (2018). Ross and Wilson Anatomy and Physiology in Health and Illness. 13th edition. Churchill Livingston.
Giddens, J. (2017). Concepts for Nursing Practice. 2nd edition. Elsevier.
Blows, W. (2018). The Biological Basis of Clinical Observations. 3rdedition. Routledge.
Ashelford, S., Raynsford, J., and Taylor, V. (2019). Pathophysiology and Pharmacology, Sage