Management of Clinical Complexity

This module is not scheduled to run in 2013/4.

Expressions of interest in the module are welcome for 2014/5; please email healthadmissions@cumbria.ac.uk

Why study with us?

To explore complex presentations and devise management strategies to work with patients towards maximising health outcomes.

Finance

If you are employed within NHS North West and this module is to be funded by your employing Trust, please contact your Line Manager and CPD Lead for advice relating to funding and the funding application process.

Resources and facilities

We are amongst the UK’s leading health and wellbeing faculties and are proud of the high level of support we are able to offer to our students. We provide a wide range of high-quality courses supported by expert academic and clinical practice staff. If you join us you will enjoy great facilities and learn alongside caring, committed and experienced professionals. Our employment record is excellent.

Entry requirements

Evidence of prior successful study at underpinning level.

More information about levels and credits.

Credit and UCAS requirements Credit: 20 credits Selection criteria

To be eligible to study this module you should be able to apply it to your practice.

Modules

NMLB7107 Management of Clinical Complexity (20 credits at level 7)

Intended learning outcomes

On completion of this module you will be able to:

1. Critically discuss the implications of complex adaptive systems theory for health care.
2. Critically appraise current thinking and published research concerning the interaction of multiple pathologies.
3. Evaluate the impact and interaction of psychosocial variables on the disease process, advancing critiques and alternative hypotheses as appropriate.
4. Exercise complex problem solving skills as they assess patients presenting with multiple pathologies and/or complicating psychosocial factors.
5. Demonstrate originality in problem solving to determine the impact of complicating factors upon the patient’s plan of care.

Indicative core bibliography

Holden L (2005) Complex adaptive systems: concept analysis. Journal of Advanced Nursing 52(6), 651-657

Holt T (2004) Complexity for Clinicians. Oxford, Radcliffe Publishing

Huber L (2006) Leadership and Nursing Care Management (3rd edition) Philadelphia, Saunders Elsevier

Plsek P. and Greenhalgh T (2001) The challenge of complexity in health care. British Medical Journal 323, 625-628.

Plsek P and Wilson T (2001) Complexity, leadership and management in healthcare organizations. British Medical Journal; 329: September 29 2001, 746-49

Rowe A Hogarth A (2005) Use of complex adaptive systems metaphor to achieve professional and organizational change. Journal of Advanced Nursing 51:4, 396-405.

http://complexity.orcon.net.nz/cas.html

Course summary

Complex adaptive systems theory (CAST), nonlinear dynamic systems stochastic and deterministic chaos. The implications of these approaches for health and health care in terms of both the individual and care system. . Interacting multiple pathology in different diseases e.g. diabetes, COPD and heart failure. The interaction of developmental and psychosocial factors with pathology.