BSc Nursing Practice (CPD) / Course details

• Help practitioners to adapt and develop the necessary knowledge, reflective skills and professional attributes to enable patients and their families to access services and participate in the therapeutic frame, whose goal is to maximize reciprocity, quality of life and well being.
• Provide participants with experiences designed to enhance and challenge existing knowledge and skills so as to better inform and facilitate professional, evidence based interventions on behalf of patients and family members.
• Enable participants to critically consider and evaluate the emergent nature of supportive and palliative care (SPC) to effectively engage and intervene with patients and families experiencing life-limiting illness.
• Assist practitioners to develop the necessary knowledge and skills required to challenge and innovate current practice within SPC and secure evidence-based interventions to enable patients and their families/carers to experience life-limiting illness with minimal distress.

• Develop and demonstrate understanding and critical knowledge of the philosophies, principles and practices of supportive and palliative care (SPC) in order to understand how they may be applied in a range of practice settings.  
• Demonstrate critical appreciation of how, by implementing these principles in practice, care may be evaluated and measured successfully.
• Formulate a definition of supportive and palliative care, which is relevant to contemporary service provision and which includes an understanding of the role and contribution of collaborative multidisciplinary team work in securing positive patient outcomes, based on a critical appreciation of current evidence of best practice.
• Demonstrate understanding and critical awareness of current problems and/or new developments at the forefront of SPC practice.

• Critically analyse and evaluate concepts of health, holism and quality of living within the context of supportive and palliative care.
• Critically analyse and evaluate the effects of current and potential changes in health care need and policies, in relation to the provision of supportive and palliative care.
• Critically analyse and evaluate the impact of contemporary innovations in supportive and palliative care on clients and family, including the concept of collaborative teamwork and its contribution to the provision of effective supportive and palliative care.
• Critically analyse and evaluate a range of cultural issues impinging on the provision of supportive and palliative care.

• Plan and provide optimal nursing care, which recognises and is responsive to the needs of the individual and family in the supportive and palliative care context.
• Participate in and contribute to evidence based clinical decision-making processes, basing judgements on professional, ethical and legal principles.
• Maintain, foster and enhance collaborative professional therapeutic relationships.
• Be proactive in leadership and advocacy roles.
• Provide supportive care to family members, anticipate their needs and refer on to specialist services where appropriate.

• Utilise theoretical, experiential and research based knowledge to effectively manage supportive and palliative care symptoms in practice, which may arise as a consequence of the disease process.
• Utilise the processes of analysis, reflection and evaluation in professional practice to secure positive patient outcomes.
• Demonstrate skills in advocacy, leadership, collegiately and working effectively with others as a member of the multidisciplinary team.
• Effectively utilise a range of information sources.  

Students will normally have the opportunity to receive feedback on formative work submitted prior to the summative assessment. Other feedback opportunities will also be available in class and online discussion boards. Online feedback is provided in Grademark. Provisional feedback based on internal marking will be made available prior to the Exam Board on the basis that these marks are yet to be ratified at the Exam Board and therefore may be subject to change. A standard feedback mechanism in Grademark is utilised across all postgraduate programmes within the School which provides detailed and constructive feedback on each component and aspect of assessment and identifies areas of strength and those aspects which could be enhanced.

Student feedback is obtained through open discussion forums on blackboard, in class discussions, via formal University unit evaluation forms and also qualitative, in house evaluations at the end of the unit. 

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