Acquire the knowledge and skills necessary for advanced clinical assessment, reasoning, and decision-making. By honing your clinical examination skills in human physiology, you'll adopt a problem-solving approach to the promotion of health and wellbeing for your patients. You'll also develop a profound understanding of human anatomy and physiology, as well as effective communication and medical history-taking skills. This will enable you to conduct comprehensive consultations and ensure holistic care. By the end of the module, you'll be equipped to manage the entire patient journey, from initial meeting to negotiating treatment plans and ensuring safe discharge.
As healthcare increasingly focuses on managing complex conditions, this module equips you with the knowledge, skills and attitude needed for advanced clinical assessment. You'll learn to recognise that clinical assessment, reasoning and decision-making have complex variables such as comorbidity, patient values, social and cultural issues. This understanding will prepare you to treat the whole person rather than just addressing episodes of care, while also valuing a multi-professional approach to optimise patient outcomes.
Develop autonomy in your professional and academic development within a specific area of practice that you’ve identified. You'll critically evaluate relevant research evidence related to your chosen topic, identify gaps and make recommendations for practice, policy and education. Additionally, you'll recognise key insights, analysing their application to practice, and explore creative solutions to address gaps and challenges.
Develop autonomy in your professional and academic development within a specific area of practice that you’ve identified. You'll critically evaluate relevant research evidence related to your chosen topic, identify gaps and make recommendations for practice, policy and education. Additionally, you'll recognise key insights, analysing their application to practice, and explore creative solutions to address gaps and challenges.
Enhance your knowledge and skills in the prevention and control of infection in healthcare. In this module, we'll discuss the sources and transmission of infection, host susceptibility, and antimicrobial agents. By using electronic clinical knowledge databases, you'll systemically access, critique and evaluate evidence on infection control and prevention practices, while identifying their implications for real-world application.
Learn to critique and evaluate the ethical and legal theories, principles and concepts that underpin current health and social care practice. As you progress through the module, you'll develop creative and intelligent arguments using ethical theory. Upon completion, you'll be equipped to apply relevant ethical and legal principles to your practice. This will support you in making complex decision-making in ethically challenging scenarios in health and social care.
This module prepares you to achieve the professional standards required to register as a Non-Medical Prescriber with the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC 2023). Using a structured approach, you'll conduct a prescribing consultation that focuses on achieving optimal health outcomes. You'll also analyse current service provision and integrate your learning into your clinical prescribing. This training emphasises practising safely and responsibly within a framework of professional accountability. You'll develop your prescribing skills as part of a team, following the principles set by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (2021).
Independent prescribing involves a practitioner who assesses patients with specific conditions and makes decisions about the clinical management required. As a registered health care professional, this module prepares you for your role as an independent prescriber. You'll be able to prescribe, using your own initiative, any medicine within your scope of practice and in accordance with relevant legislation. Upon completion, you'll be eligible for an annotation on the HCPC register, enabling you to practice as an independent or supplementary prescriber.
Critically reflect on your experience, professional learning and past achievements to identify future learning needs related to your role in shaping health and social care practice. During this module, you'll learn to challenge and critique current policies and apply your expertise creatively to address complex health and community care situations.
This module provides healthcare practitioners with the knowledge and skills to appraise complex problems as they present within contemporary health and care services. As you study, you'll use higher levels of autonomy to learn how to advocate for social justice, applying knowledge, skills, and behaviours to address the widening health inequalities in our society. You'll analyse community assets and evaluate place-based approaches to support the positive health and wellbeing of people across the diverse communities and populations you serve.
Increase your knowledge, skills and understanding of the prevention, recognition and therapeutic management of acutely ill adult patients. This module is aimed at qualified nurses and allied healthcare professionals who care for deteriorating patients or those at risk of acute physical deterioration in primary or secondary care. You'll learn how to holistically apply theory to address the complex needs of acutely ill and deteriorating adult patients. In addition, you'll develop the competencies and skills necessary for effective clinical management of your patients. Your growth will be further enhanced as you explore how clinical leadership and strong multidisciplinary teamwork, and communication inform this process.