This module aims to provide opportunity for students to critically explore public health concepts and approaches within the context of District Nursing. It will enable learners to critically examine social and behavioural determinants of health, associated public health programmes and interventions to promote wellbeing and ameliorate poor physical and mental health. There will be opportunity for critical exploration of how health economic evaluations inform decision making, policy and the culture of healthcare delivery.  Additionally, students will critically explore and understand the role of the District Nurse in health protection and safeguarding across the lifecourse.  

Learning Outcomes

1. Critically discuss the key concepts of public health, legislative and policy frameworks that govern practice, and apply specialist knowledge of epidemiology, demography and the social determinants of health and illness to assessment of healthcare needs  
2. Demonstrate critical awareness of how economic evaluations impact healthcare decision making and use this knowledge to plan and critically evaluate the efficacy of interventions used to safeguard people and ameliorate poor physical, mental and behavioural health and wellbeing
3. Demonstrate achievement of section 1, term 1 summative assessment of practice

 

Assessment

 Case Study within which the student will critically discuss a public health intervention.  

Student’s will be required to:  

i. select a case from practice. The case will focus on individual people, families or carers or a community.

ii. critically appraise the social determinants of health that may lead to inequalities in health outcomes for the individual, their family, or carers, or the community; 

iii. consider the health needs of the individual, family or carers or the community and select a public health intervention that has the potential to improve the mental, physical and/or behavioural health and wellbeing of the individual, their family, or carers or the community;

iv. critically discuss how the public health intervention might impact on health outcomes and protect the welfare and/or promote well-being;  

v. identify and discuss the resources or assets that would be needed to support the intervention; 

vi. critically reflect on how they critically discuss how the public health intervention might impact on health outcomes and protect the welfare and/or promote well-being;  

vii. identify and discuss the resources or assets that would be needed to support the intervention; 

viii. critically reflect on how they

 

 

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This module can contribute to the following programme(s)

P14299: Post Graduate Diploma Community Specialist Practice: District Nursing (Work Based Learning Route) – 12 Month

P14301: Post graduate Diploma Community Specialist Practice: District Nursing (Independent and Supplementary Prescribing Route – 12 Month)