4 Year Nursing Degree Programme (BSc Cur) General Nursing
NU4G01 -Chronic Illness, Rehabilitation, Palliative Care and Pain Management (5 ECTS)
Learning Outcomes
Following completion of this module the student should be able to:
- Understand the aetiology and epidemiology of chronic illness and/or disability
- Understand the theoretical concepts and frameworks outlining the physical, psychological, social and environmental needs of persons with a chronic illness and/or disability
- Discuss the role of the nurse involved in assessing and understanding the adaptive processes of persons with chronic illness and/or disability
- Discuss the current models of rehabilitation and the nursing intervention involved as part of multiand interdisciplinary rehabilitation care
- Discuss the definition and principles of palliative care
- Discuss the role of the nurse in palliative care
- Discuss the delivery of palliative care policy
- Discuss the role of the nurse in pain management
- Discuss the barriers to pain management
- Discuss the pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches to pain management
- Discuss the use of pain assessment scales in clinical nursing practice
Module Learning Aims
The aim of this module is to examine key concepts and principles concerning chronic illness and
disability, rehabilitation, palliative care and pain management. This module addresses a range of current
issues related to the nursing and health care management of patients with chronic illness, disability,
cancers, terminal conditions and pain.
The module is presented in four units of study, as follows:
- Unit 1: Chronic illness and disability
- Unit 2: Rehabilitation
- Unit 3: Palliative care
- Unit 4: Pain management
Recommended Reading List
Essential Reading
- Hawthorn, J. & Redmond, K. (1998) Pain Causes and Management. Oxford: Blackwell Science
- Health Service Executive and Irish Hospice Foundation (2008) Palliative Care for All: Integrating Palliative Care into Disease Management Frameworks. Irish Hospice Foundation, Dublin.
- Mauk K.L. (2011) Rehabilitation Nursing: A Contemporary Approach to Practice. Jones & Bartlett Learning
- Parsons, G. Preece, W. (2010) Principles and Practice of Managing Pain; A Guide for Nurses and Allied
- Health Professionals. Berkshire: Mc Graw-Hill.
- Payne, S. Seymour, J. & Ingleton, C. (2008) Palliative Care Nursing. Open University Press
Recommended Reading
- Davis, S. (2005) Rehabilitation: The Use of Theories and Models in Practice. Oxford: Churchill Livingstone
- Ferrell, B. R. & Coyle, N. (eds) (2001) Textbook of Palliative Nursing. New York: Oxford University Press
- Irish Hospice Foundation, Irish College of General Practitioners and Health Service Executive (2011) Primary Palliative Care in Ireland. Irish Hospice Foundation: Dublin.
- Jester, R. (2007) Advancing Practice in Rehabilitation Nursing Blackwell Publishing, Oxford.
- Mann, E.M. & Carr, E.C.J. (2009) Pain: creative approaches to effective pain management. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- McCaffery, M. & Pasero, C. (1999) Pain: Clinical manual. St. Louis: Mosby
- World Health Organisation (2001) International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health: ICF. World Health Organisation Geneva.
* Additional readings will be given for each unit of learning.