Module code: NUR7038-C
To critically enhance and develop specialised knowledge and understanding of communicable diseases from a national and international perspective.
To critically evaluate professional decision making and review communicable disease health care practice in their own professional areas.
Introduction to communicable diseases: patterns of infection, infectious disease threats, surveillance systems and epidemiological investigations.
Contact diseases (skin and eye conditions): sexually transmitted diseases, HIV/AIDS, malaria, diseases spread through faeco-oral route, air borne diseases, Tuberculosis, Hepatitis, viruses, hospital acquired infection.
Global patient safety challenge: sterilization and cross infection control, trends, prevention and control measures, effectiveness of a number of key national disease control programmes, for example working on the efficacy, safety and uptake of vaccines in routine use; the uptake and effectiveness of national screening, antibiotic use and misuse
Role of NGO, WHO, policy and government targets, surveillance of targets.
Service planning; contingency, responsibility, inequality, public perception of threat, organizational responsiveness.
Role of the media, UK Infection Control and management of public health threats.