Course description
Challenges in Pain Management
This module will enable you to evaluate pain assessment and management skills, and implement effective strategies to prevent,and manage patients’ pain in the context of local and national policies in relation to pain.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Entry requirements
- Ability to study at level 7
- Professional registration as a healthcare professional:
- Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
- Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- Working in health and social care.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
Credits: 15
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of this module, youwill be able to:
- Develop an in-depth knowledge and understanding of theories of pain.
- Critically reflect on biological, psychosocial and cultural approaches to pain.
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of pharmacokinetic principles in order to provide high quality and effective care.
- Critically analyse and appraise barriers in pain management.
- Demonstrate self direction in taking a pain history, evaluating the findings and suggest suitable evidence based pain assessment tools.
- Critically reflect uponand analyse the ability to assess and manage complex pain from a multidimensional approach.
Training Course Content
Indicative module content includes:
- Physiology of pain
- Multi-dimensional aspects of pain
- Psychological and socio-cultural approaches
- Pain prevention strategies
- Pain assessment strategies
- Complementary therapies
- Pharmacokinetic principles
- Opioid and non-opioid drugs
- Complex pain syndromes, eg phantom limb pain, referred pain
- Implement pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches
- Barriers to pain management
- Pain and cognitive changes/ disabilities.
Course delivery details
For the 2022/23 curriculum, our CPD moduleswill be delivered usinghybrid learning. This means that depending on the subject and content of learning and teaching, modules will mainly be delivered via a combination of face to face and online delivery, as this has worked really well for our practice-based colleagues. A couple of modules will be delivered solely online, however for most modules face to face contact time and attendance at the university will be required.
Learning and teaching methods include:
- Group discussions and presentation
- Case studies/narratives
- Lectures and discussion
- E-learning.