Engineering and the Environment, University of Southampton

Knowledge and understanding
Having successfully completed the module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding in the following areas: • Accessing and processing information from a variety of sources, including bibliographic databases. • The need for a structured approach to learning and personal organisation that suits your own learning style. • The need to respect copyright and to avoid plagiarism. • Giving and receiving feedback. • Understand the structure of Health and social care delivery in the UK • Understanding the impact of culture, community, difference and diversity on the individual. • Recognising social inclusion and exclusion. • Understanding health and social care from the perspective of the service user. • Understand the importance of infection control

Cognitive (thinking) skills
Having successfully completed the module, you will be able to: • Synthesise information from a variety of sources, to analyse information and to evaluate it in learning and workplace contexts. • You will recognise approaches to learning that are most effective for you. • Demonstrate an improved ability to differentiate individual and cultural/contextual aspects of disability.

Practical, subject specific skills
Having successfully completed the module, you will be able to: • Handle information used in your own learning and in healthcare. • Employ appropriate academic skills (e.g. library skills, searching using keywords, note taking, summarising, memorising) to support your own learning. • Organise your own time effectively to enable your own learning. • Demonstrate communication skills in relation to patients/clients/carers and healthcare professionals. • Demonstrate your own team working skills and recognise the need to manage personal equilibrium.

Key transferable skills
Having successfully completed the module, you will have skills in: • Communication and team working in general. • Synthesis of data from a range of sources • Use of Computer and Information Technology methods

• To introduce you to social and psychological issues associated with the interface between healthcare professionals and patients/clients or their carers and to give you basic academic skills for learning during the programme and in your future career. • Developing professional attitudes towards treating and communicating with patient/client/carers

• Deliver basic information of the use of Computing and Information Technology resources in the University. • Deliver basic information on the use of academic and library resources in the University. • Deliver basic information on learning skills including time management and prioritisation of tasks. • Present stimulus material that develops your skills in team working, information retrieval and handling, and academic skills. • Set group tasks that require you to reflect on your own learning style • Introduce the subject material, which is necessary background to the programme in general. • Use group work to develop an understanding of team working and interpersonal communication • Capitalise on the diversity of group members to develop an appreciation of cultural similarity and diversity, and individual differences. • Utilise experiences of group members in relation to health and social care services to develop an understanding of the service user perspective.

• Structure of the NHS • The patient journey • Patient centred care • Society and social organisation including cultural similarity and diversity • Basic principles of society and social organisation (community, work, family) • Social inclusion/exclusion and advocacy • Professional practice/guidelines, clinical guidelines • Respect and ethical practice • Record keeping • Principles of confidentiality, ethics and consent • Team working • Health and Safety • Infection control • Clinical audit • Psychometric testing and team interaction • Team dynamics • Information handling • Bibliographic databases • Copyright and plagiarism • Library and bibliographic database skills • Giving and receiving feedback • Critical analysis skills • Managing time, workload and resources • Methods for prioritisation • Academic writing and referencing • C&IT technologies and methods

• One 45 minute session per week in a formal classroom setting or skills laboratory. Typical class size is 30 students. During some of these sessions there will be small group work gathering information or discussing salient issues with feedback from each group to the whole class.

• Working in your own time and in timetabled independent learning sessions you are expected to read supporting texts outlined in the book list and make reference to appropriate academic journals in order to support lectures.