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NUR-40099 - Module Specification
School of Nursing and Midwifery
Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences

For academic year: 2024/25 Last Updated: 27 April 2024

NUR-40099 - Applied Pharmacology and Safety MSc Nursing
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Level: Level 7
Credits: 15
Study Hours: 150
School Office: 01782 556723

Programme/Approved Electives for 2024/25

None

Available as a Free Standing Elective

No

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

None

Barred Combinations

None

Description for 2024/25


Aims
To provide an understanding of the concepts of pharmacology relating to the principles of safe medicines management and assessment of medication needs, working within the multidisciplinary team.
To enable you critically explore principles of safety, quality improvement strategies and risk management.

Intended Learning Outcomes

Use best evidence to critically apply knowledge and understanding of the principles of pharmacology and pharmacotherapeutics across the lifespan, recognising potential adverse drug reactions and drug interactions; especially through polypharmacy, and how to deal with such events
: 1
Demonstrate safe medicines management including how prescriptions are generated, the role of generic and off licensed prescribing and the professional and legal consequences of generating prescriptions and medicines management, relating to their field of practice: 1
Critically evaluate and apply local and national frameworks, legislation and regulations to the process of assessing, managing and reporting risks.: 1
Critically reflect on near misses and reporting serious adverse events ensuring that appropriate action is taken to learn from them and influence future practice: 1

Study hours

Breakdown of active learning hours-
In situ- 12hrs/Synchronous- 9hrs (Lectures, discussion, seminars, tutorials, workshops, assessment preparation and simulation
Asynchronous- 5hrs (Guided independent study including preparation for scheduled sessions, follow up work)
Breakdown of independent study hours-

Independent study- 124hrs (Wider reading, revision, assessment preparation)
Due to the dynamic nature of nursing programmes, the above breakdown may be subject to alteration.

School Rules

Students need to have successfully completed RPL for part 1 of the MSc Nursing programme before commencing this module.

Description of Module 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: 27 April 2024