Module Descriptors
REFLECTIVE PRACTICE IN PALLIATIVE AND END OF LIFE CARE
XCPD70380
Key Facts
Faculty of Health Sciences
Level 7
15 credits
Hours of Study
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities: 25
Independent Study Hours: 125
Total Learning Hours: 150
Assessment
- ASSIGNMENT weighted at 100%
Module Details
Module Additional Assessment Details
Written assignment; This assignment will be a critical reflection focussing on an issue from the student's area of practice and related to palliative care and end of life care (contributing to all LO's)
Additional Assessment Details:
Formative Assessment:
Formative assessment will involve group discussion, seminar involvement and the use of tutorials to clarify, explore and critically discuss the focus of the reflective issue used for the assignment.
Additional Assessment Details:
Formative Assessment:
Formative assessment will involve group discussion, seminar involvement and the use of tutorials to clarify, explore and critically discuss the focus of the reflective issue used for the assignment.
Module Indicative Content
The concept of critical reflection
Palliative care - definitions, conceptual tensions, historical and policy contexts
End of life care - definitions, conceptual tensions, historical and policy contexts
Ethical issues in palliative and end of life care
The dying process and the concept of a `good death'
Service provision - key drivers and policy directives, the wider social context of palliative care provision and end of life care provision, death in post modern society
Contemporary issues in palliative care and end of life care with an emphasis on particular examples highlighted by students
Palliative care - definitions, conceptual tensions, historical and policy contexts
End of life care - definitions, conceptual tensions, historical and policy contexts
Ethical issues in palliative and end of life care
The dying process and the concept of a `good death'
Service provision - key drivers and policy directives, the wider social context of palliative care provision and end of life care provision, death in post modern society
Contemporary issues in palliative care and end of life care with an emphasis on particular examples highlighted by students
Module Learning Strategies
Contact Hours: (25)
12.5 hours Lead lectures
5 hours Reflective discussion
2.5 hours Narrative
2.5 hours Seminars
2.5 hours The use of film and literature
Independent Study Hours: (125)
75 hours searching, retrieving and analysing information
25 hours Clinically based reflection
25 hours preparation for group discussion
12.5 hours Lead lectures
5 hours Reflective discussion
2.5 hours Narrative
2.5 hours Seminars
2.5 hours The use of film and literature
Independent Study Hours: (125)
75 hours searching, retrieving and analysing information
25 hours Clinically based reflection
25 hours preparation for group discussion
Module Resources
Lecture rooms, computer, e mail access, internet access, printer, power point projector, Blackboard, colleagues / peers, library
Module Texts
Mason C (ed) (2002) Journeys into palliative care- Roots and reflections. Jessica Kingsley Publishers. London
Ten Have H & Clark D (2002). The Ethics of Palliative Care - European Perspective. OUP. Buckingham
Costello J (2004) Nursing the Dying Patient - Caring in Different Contexts. Palgrave Macmillan
Hockey J, Katz J, Small N (2001) Grief, Mourning and Death Ritual.. OUP. Buckingham
Lawton J (2000) The Dying Process - patients' experience of palliative care. Routledge. London
Ten Have H & Clark D (2002). The Ethics of Palliative Care - European Perspective. OUP. Buckingham
Costello J (2004) Nursing the Dying Patient - Caring in Different Contexts. Palgrave Macmillan
Hockey J, Katz J, Small N (2001) Grief, Mourning and Death Ritual.. OUP. Buckingham
Lawton J (2000) The Dying Process - patients' experience of palliative care. Routledge. London
Module Special Admissions Requirements
Students must be practicing in an area which incorporates palliative care