HS242-5-AS-CA:
Advocacy, Activism and Resistance
2024/25
Health and Social Care (School of)
Colchester Campus & Apprenticeship Location
Autumn & Summer
Undergraduate: Level 5
Current
Thursday 03 October 2024
Friday 27 June 2025
20
07 March 2024
Requisites for this module
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BSC B740AD Nursing (Adult),
BSC B740AS Nursing (Adult),
BSC B760AD Nursing (Mental Health),
BSC B760AS Nursing (Mental Health)
Advocacy is a central tenet of the philosophies and practices of nursing. Drawing on the principles of social justice, this module encourages students to critically consider what it means to be an advocate for people who are seeking to access and use health services, andto explore strategies to constructively and actively resist those practices and policies that have detrimental consequences for groups of people.
This module enables student towork in partnership with citizens and service users toappraise, challenge and, where appropriate, resist the political, professional and organisational assumptions and practices that can discriminateagainst, perpetuate inequalities in, and limit access toservices andcareforcommunities, groups and individuals
By the end of this module, students will be expected to be able to:
- Critically analyse the consequences of discrimination and proactively challenge these when observed or reported.
- Critically analyse approaches to advocacy and proactively work with others (service users, families. carers, organisations and other professionals) to ensure equitable access to healthcare and other services.
- Interpret the consequences of legislation, public policy and health and social care policies based on people’s experiences and identify mechanisms that can be used to challenge public policy and influence policy change.
- Demonstrate the development of political awareness and courageous, compassionate person-centred activism and solidarity with people and colleagues.
- Demonstrate resilience and emotional intelligence and be capable of explaining the rationale that influences their judgments and decisions.
*Principles of social justice
*Principles of intersectionality
*Participation models in health & social care
*Models of advocacy
*Practical approaches to supporting people to raise concerns and negotiate change
*Working with and supporting people and their families in partnership to develop agreed goals
*Critical analysis of the principles of health economics and resource allocation in health care organisations
*Models of disability and disability rights movements
*Identifying vulnerable groups in society and consider the barriers to theiraccess to health and social care
*Tension between ethical and professional positions and conscientious objections
*Impact on the delivery of careofhierarchy, interprofessional rivalryand power differentials
*Understanding and working with moral distress
*Critical analysis of power relationships in health and social care
Lectures and flipped classroom
Students will engage in interactive lectures that introduce and critically question the principles and concepts associated with social justice, advocacy delivered by keynote speakers, researchers and people with lived experience. Between taught days, flipped classroom and technology-enhanced learning activities will introduce digital stories that illuminate the experiences and perspectives of marginalised groups as they seek to access health and social care and other public services.
Workshops
People with lived experiences of using services will be supported to facilitate illustrative workshops. Opportunities to create lasting links with third sector and user-led organisations (ULOs) will be available. Students will be supported and encouraged to keep a reflective personal log of their experiences and observations during this module (non-assessed –voluntary).
This module does not appear to have a published bibliography for this year.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
Coursework / exam |
Description |
Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
Coursework |
HS242 Summative Submission (SA) |
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100% |
Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Ms Sarah Richardson, email: sarah.richardson@essex.ac.uk.
Sarah Richardson
Callum Marshall - (Administrator) hsccolapp@essex.ac.uk
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Mr Kevin Crimmons
Newman University Birmingham
Head of Subject, Adult Nursing and Health & Social Care
Available via Moodle
Of 36 hours, 33 (91.7%) hours available to students:
3 hours not recorded due to service coverage or fault;
0 hours not recorded due to opt-out by lecturer(s), module, or event type.
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