This module is aimed at all registered and practicing nurses or midwives, and allied health and social care professionals.

This module evaluates and applies established theories and models relevant to decision making in the context of health and social care. These are drawn from a wide variety of disciplines including clinical reasoning, philosophy and ethics, legal frameworks, Service User involvement, Inter-professional and Values Based Decision Making. Throughout, students will develop their critical thinking skills, with an emphasis on applying their learning to decision making in the students’ own health and social care context.

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding:
Successful students will typically...

-Identify and critique challenging decisions from health and social care practice.
-Critically evaluate and apply established decision-making theories and frameworks to complex decisions in health and social care.

Intellectual, Practical and Transferable Skills
Successful students will typically...

-Critically appraise influences on decision-making in health and social care contexts.
-Critically evaluate the role of own and others personal and professional values in decision making.

Number of Learner Hours: 

1.    Scheduled - 25

2.    Independent - 125

3.    Placement/work-based learning - 0

Assessment

There are 5 elements to the assessment for this module using a variety of formats including academic poster, essay and podcast, each accounting for 12.5% of the total grade; grade and a final critical reflection, accounting for 50% of the overall grade.