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NUR-40122 - Module Specification
School of Nursing and Midwifery
Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences

For academic year: 2023/24 Last Updated: 13 February 2024

NUR-40122 - Legal and Ethical Issues in Healthcare Level 7
Coordinator: Joanne Cookson Tel: +44 1782 7 38131
Lecture Time: See Timetable...
Level: Level 7
Credits: 15
Study Hours: 150
School Office: 01782 556723

Programme/Approved Electives for 2023/24

None

Available as a Free Standing Elective

No

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

None

Barred Combinations

NUR-30152

Description for 2023/24

This module is suitable for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals who wish to acquire an introduction to healthcare ethics and law.
The module focuses on the fundamental aspects ethical issues and the underpinning legal statures that support our professional practice. You will also have enhanced your ability to think critically about this speciality and develop your reasoning skills.

Aims
The module will facilitate you to critically analyse, explore and debate ethical and legal concepts, issues and theories relating to health and social care. It will provide knowledge and understanding of ethical and medico-legal theories, and the skills needed to apply them to real-world scenarios in a diverse range of healthcare contexts.

Intended Learning Outcomes

Critically examine ethical issues related to health care practice, critically analysing different approaches to ethical theory, values and reasoning that inform decisions in healthcare practice, policy, and law: 2
Critically appraise and apply the legal framework (statutes and case law) relevant to the jurisdiction that applies to health care practice: 1
Critically analyse the rights and responsibilities of health care professionals and patients as the consumers of healthcare, acknowledging the importance of considering the patient¿s dignity and perspective is critical to all clinical encounters: 1
Critically analyse and examine personal professional practice in relation to healthcare ethics and law: 1

Study hours

F3- Active Learning hours: Lead lectures, seminars, problem-based learning (40 hours), group tutorials, group work, (10 hours) reflective sessions on learning, personal tutorials and group tutorial for assessment preparation (10 hours) asynchronous activities : (30 hours) = 90 hours
F4-Independent study = 60 hours

School Rules

Available to health care professionals registered with their appropriate statutory body, eg. Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)

Description of Module Assessment

1: Oral Presentation weighted 60%
Presentation
Seminar presentation to be delivered to the rest of the group. This will consist of a maximum number of 10 students and relevant teaching staff involved in this assessment. The presentation will be for 20 minutes and up to 10 minutes for questions / discussion. The presentation topic must be of a health or social care nature and have an ethical dimension to it. The presentation should provide an analysis of the different perspectives inherent within the topic area, with a requirement for students to ensure that the evidence base and theoretical underpinning of their presentation is evident within the presentation. In addition to this, students will be required to answer questions from the markers.

2: Assignment weighted 40%
Supporting paper
This assignment will be focused on the presentation that is the basis for assessment one. It will provide a critical overview of the pertinent points contained within the presentation. The word limit will be 1,000 words for this assessment.

Please note that for the 2022/23 Academic Year programmes may be adapted to operate in accordance with a flexible, digital approach. This means that there may be some changes made to how modules are delivered and assessed. The latest information will be provided to you by your School in module handbooks. We endeavour to give you as much notice as possible of any changes and details about the circumstance in which changes are made to programmes can be found in the Student Agreement, available at: https://www.keele.ac.uk/student-terms-and-conditions/

Last Updated: 13 February 2024