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Junior Sophister (3rd Year)

Shared with all Nursing and Midwifery students

Elective Modules

Human Factors in Healthcare

This module aims to provide students with an understanding of the concept of human factors and how human factors can impact on healthcare environments.

An Appreciation of Contemporary Poetry in English (Walcott, Heaney, Montague, Murray)

This module offers an introduction to the four poets and an overview of the significance of their work. It will provide students with opportunities to enhance key transferable skills that will be useful in all walks of life after college, such as understanding social, cultural and historical diversity.

Contribution to Society

The overall aim of this module is to provide students with an opportunity to actively contribute to society in a voluntary capacity in an area that is not directly related to nursing practice.

Digital Healthcare

The aim of this module is to introduce students to best practices in the development and application of digital health (and associated assistive technologies) to chronic disease management and care, including behaviour change and self-management. Areas covered include: An introduction to the digital health; Exploring the digital health technology landscape; Understanding the role and use of healthcare data; Design thinking and digital health; Using digital health technologies for home-based chronic disease self-management; Patient engagement and behavioural change with digital health technologies; Ethics and digital health; Understanding digital integrated care; The future of digital health (e.g. artificial intelligence, transferring and scaling digital health technologies).

Nutrition and Wellness

The Nutrition and Wellness module introduces students to the role that food and nutrition play in health and disease. Students will study a variety of diverse nutrition related topics from both a national and international perspective and consider nutrition across the lifespan.

Understanding Drug and Alcohol Addiction

The aim of this module is to provide an overview of the historical development of drug use in society and approaches to addiction treatment, from detoxification to harm reduction and addiction recovery. The module covers the whole lifespan, from young to older people. You will discover how to safeguard the health and wellbeing of people using substances and explore the role of family members.

Global Health Engagement

This module will provide nursing and midwifery students with the opportunity to undertake a global theoretical (online COIL) or volunteering experience (self-funded), within the context of their profession.