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Bio 3: Person-Centred Consultation & Physical Assessment Skills - HEA00159H

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  • Department: Health Sciences
  • Credit value: 20 credits
  • Credit level: H
  • Academic year of delivery: 2024-25

Module summary

N/A

Professional requirements

Compulsory module for PRSB requirements

Module will run

Occurrence Teaching period
B Spring Term 2024-25

Module aims

Demonstrate the ability to apply person-centred assessment and consultation skills, optimise medicines and make effective decisions in your chosen Field of Practice to prepare for prescriber readiness following registration with the NMC.

Module learning outcomes

By the end of the module, students will be able to:
1. Apply systematic and rigorous history-taking process, underpinned by a holistic consultation model.
2. As part of a person-centred consultation, safely undertake a systems based approach to the assessment
of an individual.
3. In collaboration with the individual, formulate a nursing management plan, incorporating supported
and shared decision making.
4. Apply principles of medicines optimisation, including shared decision making, to identifying
and responding to complexities such as de-prescribing and polypharmacy.
5. Demonstrate your understanding of evidence-based decision making in complex care.

Module content

The following concepts and processes essential to health and well-being will be covered:
Assessment of body systems; Genomics; Medicines optimization; Nursing as an intervention; History
Taking; Consultation Skills; Decision making

Indicative assessment

Task % of module mark
Oral presentation/seminar/exam 100

Special assessment rules

Non-compensatable

Indicative reassessment

Task % of module mark
Oral presentation/seminar/exam 100

Module feedback

Written feedback for the summative assessment is provided on the standard proforma, within the timescale specified in the programme handbook.

Indicative reading

Ashelford, S., Raynsford, J., Taylor, V. (2016) Pathophysiology and pharmacology for nursing students.
Sage Publication. London.

Mulryan, C. (2016) Clinical Assessment for Nurses. Sage publications.
Woodrow, P. (2016) Nursing acutely ill adults. Routledge.


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