Course description
Challenges in Pain Management
This module aims to evaluate pain assessment skills and implement effective strategies to prevent, and manage patients’ pain in a variety of settings using evidence based approaches.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Entry requirements
- Ability to study at level 6
- Professional registration as a healthcare professional:
- Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
- Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- Working in health and social care.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
Credits: 15
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of this module, youwill be able to:
- Develop an in-depth knowledge of theories of pain
- Explore biological, psychosocial and cultural approaches to pain
- Discuss and appraise barriers to pain management
- Demonstrate skill in taking a pain history and use suitable pain assessment tools
- Evaluate the findings of multi-dimensional pain assessment and apply a range of therapeutic approaches
- Appraise and apply pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches to pain
- Reflect on skill development in holistic pain management.
Training Course Content
Indicative module content includes:
- Physiology of pain
- Multi-dimensional aspects of pain
- Psychological and socio-cultural approaches
- Pain prevention strategies
- Pain assessment strategies
- Pharmacokinetic principles
- Opioid and non-opioid drugs
- Complex pain syndromes, eg phantom limb pain, neuropathic pain
- Implement pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches
- Barriers to pain management
- Evaluation of pain management
- Pain in patients with cognitive changes and learning disabilities.
Course delivery details
For the 2022/23 curriculum, our CPD moduleswill be delivered usinghybrid learning. This means that depending on the subject and content of learning and teaching, modules will mainly be delivered via a combination of face to face and online delivery, as this has worked really well for our practice-based colleagues. A couple of modules will be delivered solely online, however for most modules face to face contact time and attendance at the university will be required.
Learning and teaching methods include:
- Group discussions and presentation
- Case studies/narratives
- Lectures and discussion
- E-learning.