ONC8029 : Managing Pain (E-learning)
- Offered for Year: 2024/25
- Module Leader(s): Dr Victoria Hewitt
- Lecturer: Professor Paul Coulter
- Owning School: Pharmacy
- Teaching Location: Off Campus
Semesters
Your programme is made up of credits, the total differs on programme to programme.
| Semester 2 Credit Value: | 20 |
| ECTS Credits: | 10.0 |
| European Credit Transfer System | |
Aims
This module considers the effects of pain on patients, their families and carers and the healthcare professionals involved in the patient’s management.
It studies the physiology of pain and before exploring many of the practical issues that professionals face in multidisciplinary pain management.
Students will explore typical pain presentations in cancer and non-malignant conditions, with the opportunity to reflect on their own experiences and discuss relevant emergent issues arising from authentic clinical contexts.
Outline Of Syllabus
The module will cover the following topics:
•What is pain and how can it be assessed?
•Neurobiology of pain
•Multidisciplinary aspects of care
•The dying patient
•Pharmacology of pain
•Using opioid analgesia
•Managing pain in practice 1
•Managing pain in practice 2
•Non pharmacological approaches
•Social aspects of pain
•Difficult issues in managing patients with pain
•Multidisciplinary approach to pain management
Teaching Methods
Teaching Activities
| Category | Activity | Number | Length | Student Hours | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guided Independent Study | Assessment preparation and completion | 20 | 2:00 | 40:00 | Independent assessment preparation |
| Guided Independent Study | Directed research and reading | 12 | 2:00 | 24:00 | Online content |
| Guided Independent Study | Reflective learning activity | 11 | 6:00 | 66:00 | Via discussion boards |
| Guided Independent Study | Independent study | 10 | 2:00 | 20:00 | Supplemental reading |
| Guided Independent Study | Online Discussion | 10 | 5:00 | 50:00 | Online Collaboration via group task |
| Total | 200:00 |
Teaching Rationale And Relationship
Module leaders will tutor students through moderation of asynchronous discussions and collaborative activities and via synchronous, online tutorial events. They will also issue regular study announcements to the whole group, based on issues emergent from the above learning activities, and provide one-to-one study support dependent on individual need.
Assessment Methods
The format of resits will be determined by the Board of Examiners
Other Assessment
| Description | Semester | When Set | Percentage | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Written exercise | 2 | A | 50 | Reflective account of impact of learning in the management of a case from student’s own context (2000 Words) |
| Design/Creative proj | 2 | M | 50 | Students co-create a knowledge artefact in the form of an evidence-based and clinically relevant pain management guideline |
Formative Assessments
Formative Assessment is an assessment which develops your skills in being assessed, allows for you to receive feedback, and prepares you for being assessed. However, it does not count to your final mark.
| Description | Semester | When Set | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Written exercise | 2 | M | Reflection of a case of difficult and/ or challenging pain management (1000 words max) |
Assessment Rationale And Relationship
Formative Assessment
In the formative assessment, students reflect on a case study concerning a patient from their own context with difficult and/ or challenging pain (LOs 2,3,7,8).
Summative Assessments
In the summative assessment students will present a reflective account of how learning from the module impacts (or would have impacted) on this case (LOs 2,3,5,6,7,8,9). The choice of subject for the group collaborative assessment activity will also be decided by the module leader, depending on the pain topics represented across the group at formative assessment.
For the collaborative group assessment students will be assigned to groups of 4-6 by the module leader, determined by the pain management issue identified at formative assessment. The group will work together to create a pain management guideline, drawing upon module and independently-sourced material and using collaborative editing software (LOs 1,2,3,5,6,7,8,9). Learning activities early in the module introduce students to collaborations, whilst a framework of required fields for the guideline is set by the module leader. The final grade for this assessed group activity applies to all participants. The assessment rubric for this task includes participation.
Students who fail the module overall must submit a 2000 word critique of a pain management guideline from their own clinical context for the re-sit.
Reading Lists
Timetable
- Timetable Website: www.ncl.ac.uk/timetable/
- ONC8029's Timetable