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Acute and On-going Care (Cardiac, Cardiothoracic or Renal)

Attendance

Campus

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Duration

6 Months

Start

September 2023

Delivery

Campus Taught

For some client groups care is more complex, in that although acute emergencies and exacerbations occur there is also often an on-going health issue responsible for the acute episode e.g. renal, cardiac, respiratory, neurological or cardio-thoracic impairment.

This course allows students to fully explore both the acute and the on-going aspects of care of these specialisms and to review their practice, whilst analysing the patient experience.

The aims of this course are:

To meet the needs of professional health care practitioners from various care environments to explore, develop and extend their understanding and application of knowledge to enable them to enhance their clinical practice.
To facilitate students to reflect on their own experiences, challenge assumptions and consider alternative courses of action to support the development of a high quality, service/carer-user lead service.
To support exploration of the drivers that influence and shape contemporary professional practice in health and social care organisations.
To allow students to create a personalised, flexible programme of study that meets personal, professional and organisational requirements whilst working towards a recognised academic qualification.
To provide students with the opportunity to share professional knowledge and insight.

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Module overview

Course delivery

This course is taught face-to-face at one of our UK campuses.

100%Face-to-face

Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of our published course information. However, our programmes are subject to ongoing review and development. Changing circumstances may cause alteration to, or the cancellation of, courses. Changes may be necessary to comply with the requirements of accrediting bodies or revisions to subject benchmarks statements. As well as to keep courses updated and contemporary, or as a result of student feedback. We reserve the right to make variations if we consider such action to be necessary or in the best interests of students.

Course overview

The aim of this course is to critically explore and analyse the acute and specialist on-going care provided for patients being cared for in either Cardiac, Cardiothoracic, Renal or Neuroscience care environments.

Content will include

Understanding aetiology and pathogenesis and studying epidemiology trends and their affects upon individuals and health care.
Individualising patient assessment processes.
Reviewing patient/carers journey and experiences.
Exploring evidence for practice and its application to care including literature search skills and practice development.
Assessing health promotion approaches and encouraging self-management of care.
Evaluating seamless care including integrated, multiprofessional and multiagency provision.
Appraising performance indicators for quality care provision including Service Improvement .
Examining relevant political drivers at international, national and local level.
Specific content in relation to the specialities.

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Academic expertise

Fees and funding

2022/23

Part-time£867 per module

2023/24

Part-time£900 per module

Scholarships and bursaries

We have a wide range of scholarships, bursaries and funds available to help support you whilst studying with us.

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Classrooms with skills laboratories where applicable.

A variety of assessment strategies are employed within this course. For the core module, a Patchwork Text Assessment approach through portfolio will be implemented. The acute specialist modules include a variety of assessments for example, written assignment, observed structured clinical examination (OSCE), oral assessment, presentations, and examination.

A variety of lecturers with expertise in their specialities are involved in delivering the course

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This course is based in the School of Sport and Health Sciences located in the Faculty of Allied Health and Wellbeing

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