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Semester 1
Care of older people: relating theory and policy to practice (NUST10033)
Subject
Nursing Studies
College
CAHSS
Credits
20
Normal Year Taken
3
Delivery Session Year
2023/2024
Pre-requisites
Although this course does not have any pre-requisites, it is designed for students who have studied two full years of Nursing Studies or other directly related subject areas beforehand. If you have not studied a relevant subject area to that level, it is your responsibility to ensure the course is an appropriate level for you during the first week of teaching, and you must drop this course (before the Course Change Deadline) if you do not have the required background knowledge/skills. **Please see Additional Restrictions below**
Course Summary
This honours option course aims to explore theory and policy surrounding the care of older people in Scottish society and to relate these theoretical understandings to the nursing care of older people.
Course Description
1. Introduction to theories of ageing, social and political context. 2. Autonomy and independence. 3. Autonomy and nursing care. 4. Dignity. 5. Long term care. 6. Death and dying. 7. Person centred dementia care. 8. Models of understanding dementia care. 9. Family nursing and older people. 10. Quality in care of older people.
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 September 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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