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Semester 2

Innovations in healthcare: Society, Culture and Health 2 (NUST08025)

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 programme. The course is suitable for health and social care students who have undertaken What is health?: Society, culture and health 1 in year 1 or a course with similar learning outcomes or appreciation of health and social care. The course content is delivered through a series of lectures and workshops. The course focuses on innovations in health and social care, considering the ways that innovations may alter engagement with services and improve access to, use and impact of health and social care. There will be a strong focus on technological developments which enhance participation in and access to care for a number of groups such as older adults, those living with a long-term condition in both rural/remote and urban regions, those living with a disability, carers and people who want to lead active, healthy lifestyles. Concepts of community will be re-considered in the context of innovations in health and social care, linking with learning from year one and from the Healthy Communities course in year two.

Course Description

The course builds on theory introduced in year one to think more widely about concepts of community, in the specific context of innovation and technological developments in health and social care. Theories of innovation, change management, and leadership will be explored in this context. Students will have opportunity to explore digital innovations which enhance access to health and social care for five key groups; 1. Older people; 2. Those living in rural/remote or urban areas with a long-term condition that require self-management; 3. Those living with a disability; 4. Carers; 5. People who want to lead active, healthy lifestyles. **Considering these five groups, students will be introduced to a range of technologies which can be used to enhance the healthcare experience and social care support of individuals and their families. Students will be encouraged to consider the potential use of a range of technologies, identify the strengths and weaknesses of these digital tools, and specifically address the role of health and social care professionals in supporting these developments. Issues of widening participation and broadening access to health and social care services, addressing diversity, and ensuring high quality care through innovation will be explicitly addressed and debated throughout the course. **This course will be taught over 10 weeks and will consist of 10x2hour classroom teaching 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 and relevant informatics and innovation specialists. Students are expected to engage their learning through lectures, group discussions, online activities, 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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