Course description
Leading and Managing Long Term Conditions
This module invites you to critically review your knowledge, skills and understanding of the management of long term conditions and reflect on how care is provided for clients.This will be achieved through analysing key concepts and models of care and by challenging existing practices. Youwill explore and debate new and contemporary ways of managing long term conditions which could deliver improvements in the care of this client group.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Entry requirements
- Ability to study at level 7
- 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 the module, you will be able to:
- Critique and evaluate existing frameworks for managing long term conditions at global, national, organisational and individual levels and explore and evaluate the effectiveness of existing service delivery models.
- Demonstrate a critical understanding and evaluation of the roles and responsibilities and complexities of a whole systems approach in relation to the management of long term conditions to include advanced communication and leadership skills, integrated care pathways and referral systems.
- Demonstrate a deep understanding and evaluate the impact of cognitive and behavioural factors on people with long term conditions and developcritical responses to existing approaches to self-management and models of empowerment and advocacy.
- Critically evaluatethe legal and ethical dimensions of managing long term conditions including fair access to services through procurement and commissioning, and end of life issues.
Training Course Content
Indicative module content includes:
- Models and frameworks for managing long term conditions
- Public health and epidemiology
- Policy and organisational analysis
- Pre screening to end of life
- Medicines management
- Decision making in the context case management, risk analysis and risk assessment
- Legal and ethical issues
- Psychological impact of long term conditions,including depression, loss and grief
- Models of empowerment and patient education
- Working in partnership, shared pathways in care, transition in care
- Working with and supporting patients/clients, families and carers
- E-health including telemedicine, telehealth and telecare.
Course delivery details
The module will be facilitated using an enquiry based learning approach with key note lectures from relevant health and social care professionals.
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.