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Semester 2

Healthy Communities: Society, Culture and Health 2 (NUST08024)

Subject

Nursing Studies

College

CAHSS

Credits

20

Normal Year Taken

2

Delivery Session Year

2023/2024

Pre-requisites

Please see Additional Restrictions below

Course Summary

This is a core course in year 2 of the Bachelor of Nursing with Honours (Adult) programme. It has a focus on the health of communities as part of a larger society. It builds on the student's knowledge and understanding of the impact which community and family dynamics can have on the health of an individual. This course aims to further develop the student's understanding of social, political and individual factors to examine how health and wellbeing in communities is shaped within contemporary society. The course content is delivered through a series of lectures and workshops and is suitable for health and social care students who have studied What is health?: Society, culture and health 1 in year 1 or study with equivalent learning outcomes.

Course Description

Building on the theory and practice-based learning of the year 1 course, What is health?: Society, culture and health 1, this course further develops and deepens the student's knowledge of concepts related to health and wellbeing of the individual in the context of the family and wider community health. Students are enabled to develop a critical understanding about communities and how communities are engaged and motivated to undertake change to benefit the health of the wider population beyond that of the individual and the family. **This course will provide students with the opportunity to explore the principal theories, concepts and terminology of sociology relevant to health. Health promotion and education including teaching methods and learning styles that support change management will be developed with the students. Students' understanding of social and health legislation which is essential for nursing work in contemporary health and social care environments of today will also be further developed. Students will be able to support and enable people at all stages of life to make informed choices about how to manage health challenges in order to maximise their quality of life and improve health outcomes. **Employing taught theories and techniques, students are enabled to develop skills to start to assess and address health and social care needs of communities. The course addresses: a) Assessing the needs of a community; b) Community development and enablement; c)Health inequalities and social inclusion; d)The principles of public health and health promotion. **Course Aims: To provide students with knowledge about the diversity of communities and the impact this has on health, health needs and the approach taken in health and social care to address health need; To promote the student's skills and knowledge base in assessing need, planning interventions and understanding approaches to evaluating impact and outcome. **This course will be taught over 10 weeks and will consist of 10x2hour classroom sessions. This course will be taught as face-to-face delivery by a range of experts from within the School of Health in Social Science and also external health and social care practitioners. Students are expected to engage in their learning through group discussions, lectures and by reading relevant scholarly literature.

Assessment Information

Written Exam 0%, Coursework 100%, Practical Exam 0%

Additional Restrictions

Unless you are nominated on a Nursing exchange agreement, visiting students are only permitted to enrol in two Nursing courses each, per semester, before the start of the relevant semester’s welcome period – and spaces on each course are limited so cannot be guaranteed for any student. Enrolment in a third course from this subject area will depend on whether there are still spaces available in the January Welcome Period, and cannot be guaranteed. It is NOT appropriate for students to contact staff within this subject area to ask for an exception to be made; all enquiries to enrol in these courses must be made through the CAHSS Visiting Student Office. This is due to the limited number of spaces available in this very popular subject area.

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