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The module introduces you to the knowledge, skills and attitudes required of the nursing associate and how you can contribute to person-centred care across the life course.
The module content is therefore structured around this and your engagement with the following areas:
Being an accountable professional
<ul><li>Introduction to the Professional standards values and behaviours expected from a Nursing Associate within their scope of practice.  </li></ul>
<ul><li>Development of self-awareness of your own physical and mental health needs, resilience, emotional intelligence and well-being, with consideration to professional performance.  </li><li>Use of networking, support mechanisms and personal strategies to support personal health, resilience and wellbeing.</li></ul>
Promoting health and preventing ill health 
<ul><li>The concept of health and well-being and principles of health promotion across the life-course. </li></ul>
<ul><li>Factors that influence health inequalities and how individuals can contribute to their own health and well-being. </li></ul>
<ul><li>Partnership working to enable people to contribute to their own health and well-being. </li><li>Health screening and its impact on people’s health and well-being.</li></ul>
Provide and monitor care 
<ul><li>Structure and function of the cardiovascular, respiratory, nervous and renal systems across the lifespan and related physical, mental health and learning disability conditions. </li></ul>
<ul><li>Concepts of safeguarding vulnerable adults and children, harm and abuse.  </li><li>Evidence-based care including: hand washing, personal protective equipment (PPE), patient assessment of physiological observations and respiratory assessment. </li></ul>
Contributing to integrated care 
<ul><li>Introduction to the role and responsibilities of the nursing associate and other healthcare providers in delivering person-centred care across different organisations and interdisciplinary teams. </li></ul>

Feedback is provided in a number of ways throughout your module. This includes feedback you receive during teaching from both peers and lecturers and that provided for formative assessment. Following an assessment, you will be given your marks and feedback in line with the assessment regulations and policy. More information on the timing and type of feedback that will be provided for each assessment will be available from the module leader. <a href='https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student-policies-and-regulations'>https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student-policies-and-regulations</a>

This module will support the development of all the graduate attributes. Your module leader will provide you with information about how your learning, teaching and assessment activities support your development of these attributes. The graduate attributes are: - Always learning - Engaged in the world - Technical and digital - Connected Professional - Creating Impact

Hybrid - 

Self-directed - 

Sociology: the basics. 

Understanding applied psychology.

Health inequalities and the social determinants of health.

Understanding the Life-course. Sociological and Psychological Perspectives

Essentials of Anatomy and Physiology for Nursing Practice

Adult Lives: A Life course perspectives

Learning to Care: The Nursing Associate.

Social determinants of health.

Sociology for nurses.

Introductory Pathophysiology for Nursing and Healthcare Professionals.

Health and Well-Being across the Life Course.

Fundamentals of Anatomy and Physiology.

Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill/Open University Press.

Psychology for nurses and the caring professions.

Journal of the British Sociological Association April 50(2) 301-315 

Connecting Lifespan Development with the Sociology of the Lifecourse: A New Direction.

Thinking about the Lifecourse.

NA1001 - Introduction to Health and Well-Being

NA1001-PRD1-ALV1

The variety of teaching and learning methods used in this module will provide a safe environment for you to explore your own knowledge base, issues, worries and concerns. Participation in a range of activities and online learning through the Moodle VLE will equip you with the essential knowledge base that enables you to feel safe and confident to explore further learning and create a sense of belonging and purpose through relating what you are learning to what you will be doing in practice.  
 
Classroom facilitated learning will be complemented by student directed individual and online learning. We will encourage you to prepare for your sessions through a variety of methods such as completing online materials (interactive workbooks, quizzes and discussion forums), which will be required to maximise your learning experience and achievements. Opportunities for feedback during the sessions will build self-confidence and enable you to plan your future learning.  
 
This 20 credit module will have a total of 200 hours student learning and will be delivered at HE level 4. The face-to-face contact through lecturers will provide an overview of the key principles and information on the subject area with guidance of areas you can explore further. We will encourage you to share experiences and contribute to the module by activity engaging within the class setting in group work, case studies and presentations. Simulated practice will enable you to rehearse your skills within a safe environment and explore how your skills can be transferred to the practice setting. Laboratory practicals will enable you to consolidate your knowledge and materials delivered in lectures. 
 
The student directed hours are for you to follow up sessions with reading and undertake other activities that will enable you to develop your assessment and learning. You will have the opportunity to undertake some formative assessment activities (presentations, clinical skills, group discussions, discussion forums) which will help you complete your assessment and build confidence to enable you to plan your future learning. Opportunities for feedback will include peer feedback, lecturer feedback and completion of on-line activities. 
 
This module’s contact hours will be delivered using a number of different approaches. As an example, you may have a combination of in-person sessions (i.e. face to face on campus), and/or online synchronous sessions (participants are engaged at the same time online) and online asynchronous guided activities (you need to plan time to engage with these so you are prepared for the in person and synchronous sessions. These may include viewing recorded lectures and/or other online resources, reading materials, undertaking quizzes, completing exercises and chatting on forums.) In addition to these teaching delivery approaches, you will undertake your own independent study, which may involve wider reading, independent research, skills practice and preparation for assessment. Please see this module’s Moodle page and/or handbook for further information.

Introduction to Health and Well-Being

Outline the demands of professional practice and your professional responsibility to adopt a healthy lifestyle to maintain a level of personal fitness and wellbeing and recognise signs of vulnerability in yourself and the actions required to meet people’s needs (S) 

Values and attitudes

Describe the human anatomy and physiology of the cardiovascular, respiratory, nervous and renal systems across the lifespan (F) 

Knowledge

Identify people at risk of abuse, self-harm and/or suicidal ideation, the situations that may put them and others at risk, how to escalate concerns and how information is shared according to local policies (C) 

Outline the influence of policy and political drivers that impact health and care provision (S) 

Recognise and apply knowledge of commonly encountered mental, physical, behavioural and cognitive health conditions when delivering care (F) 

Skills

Describe the principles of human development from conception to death to meet the needs of individuals receiving care (S)   

Demonstrate knowledge, skills and ability to perform a range of nursing procedures to meet people’s needs for safe, effective and person-centred care (F) 

Explain the meaning of resilience and emotional intelligence, and their influence on an individual’s ability to provide care (C) 

Recognise the roles of the different providers of health and care and identify how to work collaboratively and in partnership with different agencies in interdisciplinary teams (F)  

Explain why health screening is important and identify those who are eligible for screening (S) 

Discuss the factors that may lead to inequalities in health outcomes and the contribution social influences, health literacy, individual circumstances, behaviours and lifestyle choices has on mental, physical and behavioural health outcomes (S) 

Demonstrate preventive health behaviours and how to provide information to support people to make informed choices to improve their mental, physical, behavioural health and wellbeing (S) 