Department for Health, Unit Catalogue 2011/12 |
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 Credits:
| 6 |
| Level:
| Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7) |
| Period: |
Modular (no specific semester) |
| Assessment:
| CW100 |
| Supplementary Assessment: | Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations) |
| Requisites:
| In taking this unit you cannot take HL50079 or take HL50082 |
| Description:
| Aims: To enable participants to use evidence to develop a strategy for practice change in a primary care setting. Specifically: * To critically evaluate knowledge and develop competence in implementing health-related evidence within primary care contexts. Learning Outcomes: By the end of the unit the student will be able to: 1. critically evaluate how evidence is used within the clinical decision making process for individual patients in a primary care setting 2. critically evaluate how evidence is used to guide health policy and health service delivery decisions at macro, meso, and micro levels 3. critically discuss and assess general change theory and models of change, and evaluate how and what makes clinicians change their practice 4. identify major barriers to implementing change and develop strategies to overcome them 5. Identify, review and critically discuss the different types of resources available to facilitate embedding findings from research into health service delivery and clinical practice 6. implement, manage, monitor and evaluate change in their own practice context 7. reflect on their own interaction with the evidence base and identify areas for continuous improvement. These learning outcomes will be taught, facilitated and assessed. Skills: On completion of this unit students should be able to: 1. Identify the basic processes involved in utilising evidence within clinical decision making (knowledge and understanding; intellectual, professional practical and transferable skills: taught, facilitated and assessed) 2. Identify the methods by which evidence is used to inform health policy and service delivery decisions at macro meso and micro levels (knowledge and understanding; intellectual, professional practical and transferable skills: taught, facilitated and assessed) 3. Identify and utilize different change models within their practice-base for the effective implementation of evidence (knowledge and understanding; intellectual, professional practical and transferable skills: taught, facilitated and assessed) 4. Identify strategies within their practice-base for the evaluation of implemented change (knowledge and understanding; intellectual, professional practical and transferable skills: taught, facilitated and assessed). Content: 1. Factors impacting on use of evidence in clinical decision-making 2. Factors impacting on use of evidence to inform health policy and service delivery decisions at international; national; organisational and individual levels 3. Theoretical models developed to identify the stages in managing change 4. Strengths and weaknesses of these models and their usefulness in different situations 5. Key barriers to implementing changes in practice 6. Strategies which can be adopted to help bring about change in individuals and in organisations 7. Types of evaluation which can be used to review change 8. How the findings of evaluations of change contribute to the change process 9. Key organisations and resources that promote research into practice 10. Processes for the development of guidance for policy and practice 11. Assessment of the quality of clinical guidelines 12. Factors preventing or hindering the use or adoption of guidelines. |
| Programme availability: |
HL50175 is Compulsory on the following programmes:Department for Health
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