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Semester 2

Movement, Activity and Participation (NUST10046)

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 course will consider the physiology of normal movement and the pathological background to a range of movement disorders (e.g. spasticity, hemiplegia, bradykinesia, falls, joint pain and deformity resulting from neurological and musculoskeletal disorders). The impact of these are considered in relation to activity and participation in everyday life (ICF - WHO 2001). Practical ways of optimising function in a rehabilitation context are explored.

Course Description

This course will consider the physiology of normal movement and the pathological background to a range of movement disorders (e.g. spasticity, hemiplegia, bradykinesia, falls, joint pain and deformity resulting from Stroke, Parkinson's Disease, MS, Head Injury, RA, OA). It explores and addresses issues around rehabilitation and long term conditions with respect to movement, activity or participation (ICF - WHO 2001). Whilst taking a neurological perspective on movement disorders this is balanced by consideration of the impact on activities in daily life and the social involvement in life situations. **Students will explore practical ways of assessing and analysing movement, activity and participation; and relate these to measures of quality of life. **The formative and summative assessments will be based on reflective analyses of these issues in their own experience (formative) and in a constructed case study of an individual with a movement disorder (summative) in the context of a rehabilitation programme.

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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