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Bio 2: Biological & Pharmacological Aspects of Illness Across the Lifespan - HEA00172I

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  • Department: Health Sciences
  • Module co-ordinator: Mrs. Linda Currie
  • Credit value: 20 credits
  • Credit level: I
  • Academic year of delivery: 2024-25
    • See module specification for other years: 2023-24

Module summary

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Professional requirements

Compulsory module for PRSB requirements

Module will run

Occurrence Teaching period
B Summer 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:
1. Explain the key mechanisms of disease and biological and genomic risk factors associated with disease.

2.Apply this knowledge and understanding to the nursing care of the most common conditions across the lifespan.
3. Discuss how pharmacological interventions may impact on disease and ill health, recognising
therapeutics, adverse effects and minimising or avoiding harm.
4. Describe the ways in which research and forms of evidence influence understanding of ill
health, pathophysiology and pharmacology.

Module content

The following concepts and processes essential to health and well-being will be covered:
Ill-health and disease; Lifespan/developmental differences; Genomics (abnormal cell division); Mental health
diagnoses; Cell transportation (with a focus on education for medicines); Immunity/infection and
inflammation; Abnormal perfusion; Hormonal imbalances; Thermoregulatory imbalances; Metabolic
disorders; Loss of consciousness; Therapeutics, Pharmaceutics and associated Legislation; Reflection and the
Nursing Process.

Assessment

Task Length % of module mark
Closed/in-person Exam (Centrally scheduled)
Closed Exam		 N/A 100

Special assessment rules

Non-compensatable

Reassessment

Task Length % of module mark
Closed/in-person Exam (Centrally scheduled)
Closed Exam		 N/A 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. 2 edition. Elsevier. Blows, W. (2018).
The Biological Basis of Clinical Observations. 3 edition. Routledge. Ashelford, S., Raynsford, J., and Taylor, V.
(2019). Pathophysiology and Pharmacology, Sage


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