Undergraduate Course: Person Centered Care in Practice: Relationships and Emotion (NUST10060)
Course Outline
| School | School of Health in Social Science |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course offers students the opportunity to reflect, explore and critically examine the theories and concepts that facilitate Person Centred Care in practice. Students will also gain new knowledge to challenge current perceptions and develop new skills to advocate for realistic person-centred care in practice. Additionally, students will have the opportunity to recognise the emotional labour involved in health care practice, reflect on the significance of their own wellbeing practitioners to identify strategies to mitigate compassion fatigue and burnout. |
| Course description |
Mode of Delivery: The course will be delivered only On-Campus with lectures, seminars, tutorials / study circles over a total of 20 hours, 2 hours per week.
1. This course sets out to enable practitioners and student nurses to critically review and examine in depth the many facets of Person-Centred Care in practice. Students will discover new ways of learning about their practice as well as ways to embed new knowledge to their ways of working.
2. Content offered includes topics such as Co-production and Asset based approach to caring, Compassionate care models, the Senses framework and Emotional Labour. Digital Stories will also be used as a method of exploring and eliciting what Person-Centred Care means in practice and how care could be enhanced through this process. Developing self and others is achieved through critical reflection and analysis of students' clinical practice and sharing lessons learned with peers. The critical aspects of caring for oneself and others will also be discussed and facilitated.
3. On-Campus discussions and study circles / tutorials as well as interactive exercises that will enable students to explore, discuss and reflect on the key learning outcomes for specific material. Students will have a weekly pattern of study to follow consisting of core material alongside ongoing interactive activities such as seminars, study circles, discussion boards and associated reading; students will also be required to engage in self-directed study and reflecting on their own practice experience using a wide range of learning materials and resources provided on this course.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Critically analyse the theory related to person centred care including reflection of self and others
- Explore and debate contemporary issues impacting on person centred care in practice
- Experience online learning and reflect on its utility for ongoing professional development as a nurse
- Discuss and develop appreciation of the service user perspective and the impact it has for practice
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Reading List
Douglas, S., Macaden, L., Muirhead, K., Webster, E. & Ellis, L. (2025) Dignity and Human Rights¿Survey Findings on Undergraduate Nursing Students¿ Conceptualisation and Operationalisation of Dignity. Nursing open. 12 (4), e70194-n/a. doi:10.1002/nop2.70194.
Thakore, S., Baldie, D. & Teeling, S.P. (2022) Enabling innovation and sustainable improvement in person-centred healthcare during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic ¿ a reflective account.¿International practice development journal. 12 (1), 1¿8. doi:10.19043/ipdj.121.007.
Drayton, N., Stulz, V., Blake, K. & Gilbert, T. (2021) Development and evaluation of a new model for person-centred goal setting using practice development and appreciative inquiry approaches in a rehabilitation unit.¿International practice development journal. 11 (2), 1¿17. doi:10.19043/ipdj.112.003.
Chaney, S. (2020) Before compassion: sympathy, tact and the history of the ideal nurse.¿Medical humanities. medhum-2019-011842-. doi:10.1136/medhum-2019-011842.
Adamson, K., Searl, N., Sengsavang, S., Yardley, J., George, M., Rumney, P., Hunter, J. & Myers-Halbig, S. (2018) Caring for the healthcare professional.¿Journal of health organisation and management.¿32 (3), 402¿415. doi:https://doi.org/10.1108/JHOM-05-2017-0103.
McCormack, B. & McCance, T. (2017) Person-centred practice in nursing and health care: theory and practice. Second edition. West Sussex, England: Wiley Blackwell.
Sorenson, C., Bolick, B., Wright, K. & Hamilton, R. (2016) Understanding Compassion Fatigue in Healthcare Providers: A Review of Current Literature.¿Journal of nursing scholarship¿: an official publication of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing¿. 48 (5), 456¿465. doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/jnu.12229.
Smith, P. (2012) The emotional labour of nursing revisited: can nurses still care? / Pam Smith. Second edition. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Additional Class Delivery Information |
Delivered on campus along with Level 11 students in Semester 2. The opportunities provided for interactive learning through study circles / tutorials enriches the learning experience for both groups of students particularly around cultural perspectives and variations in approaches to person centred care. |
| Keywords | Person centred care,Compassion,Emotional Labour,Dignity,Relationship centred care,Asset based |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Ms Leah MacAden
Tel:
Email: leah.macaden@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Julia Holderer
Tel:
Email: jholdere@ed.ac.uk |
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