Module Code: HEA2088

Venue: Respiratory Education UK, Aintree
Cost: £ 575

Introduction

This module aims to provide healthcare workers with an understanding of pulmonary rehabilitation and pulmonary rehabilitation programmes.  It will enable students to develop approaches to assessment, planning and delivery of individualised programmes of care, underpinned by current evidence base

Module Format

This module is run on a blended learning basis supported by a comprehensive course pack and four structured study days over 30 weeks, which will include online and classroom discussion, workshops and lectures ensuring that theory and practice are integrated

Aims

This module will enable healthcare professionals to:

• Analyse concepts upon which pulmonary rehabilitation is based and identify its essential components

• Assess health needs of individuals and initiate appropriate rehabilitation strategies, in relation to the available literature, for the patient with pulmonary impairment

• Identify psychosocial issues related to chronic pulmonary impairment and discuss the strategies in place to facilitate patient well-being

• Explore legal, ethical and moral issues which impact upon care in the pulmonary rehabilitation setting

• Evaluate pulmonary rehabilitation care delivery, and identify strategies to enhance the care of patients with chronic impairment including patient and carers health promotion and education

Course Content

The content of the module includes:

• The basis for pulmonary rehabilitation including demographic influences, demand, effectiveness, economics (funding, rationing and resourcing) and political context

• Strategies for referral, recruitment, participation and managing attrition

• Assessment of health needs including clinical assessment of educational needs, exercise/ability testing, health related quality of life, psychological and social needs

• Programme structure and content including multidisciplinary team contribution and inter-collaborative working, and supplementary therapies (inc oxygen, bronchodilators and nutritional supplements)

• Patient empowerment and enabling/facilitating changing behaviour

• Legal, ethical, moral and financial issues, including accountability, advocacy, preventative vs reactive approaches to managing disease, rationing and resourcing issues

• Evaluation of programmes including audit

Assessment

5,000 case study

Student Support

Comprehensive course materials are provided to students.  Tutorial time is set aside to support students, with specialist staff always available be either phone, e-mail and on-line.  REUK can also advise on funding possibilities and financial support from a number of sources, we encourage students to get in touch

This module can be studied as an independent unit of study towards the Diploma in Respiratory Practice.  To access this module, you would be expected to have had at least one year post registration experience and should be working with or involved in the care of patients with respiratory conditions

Success completion results in 30 academic credits at diploma level

Venue

This module is held at our Liverpool office

Credits: 30

Optional