professional development for health and social care

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE PROFESSIONALS 2017/18 PROSPECTUS

( +44 (0)1752 586951 * [email protected] www.plymouth.ac.uk/hhs-pd

2 APPLY FOR A COURSE OR FIND OUT MORE

5 Welcome

5 How to apply

5 Fees and funding

6 Start dates

6 Location

6 A guide to terminology

8 Postgraduate programmes

28 Undergraduate courses

40 Short courses

42 Modules – by subject area

110 Study days

110 Bespoke training

111 Why choose Plymouth?

112 Index

117 Important notice

Back cover Contact us

CONTENTS


3APPLY FOR A COURSE OR FIND OUT MORE

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WELCOMEUndertaking a professional development course is a major investment in your future that can significantly enhance the quality of your professional and personal life. It's important that you use this time to maximum advantage so that your learning experiences are rich, varied and positive.

Whether it’s study days, modules, short courses, degrees or masters that you are looking for, we're sure to have something to suit your needs and circumstances, as we offer the largest range of health and social care courses in the South West.

We understand that one of the most important factors in choosing a course is flexibility and that is why:

• you can study modules as standalone courses or accumulate credit towards a qualification

• most modules are taught over a few days per month, ensuring they fit in with your work commitments

• you can study through distance learning using online interactive resources and materials

• we don’t expect you to repeat learning already achieved so we reward this with the opportunity to earn academic credit via accreditation of prior learning (APL)

• you can study on a modular part-time basis

• our extensive subject choice is suitable for a wide range of health and social care professionals

• we can work with your organisation to create tailored courses that meet your specific requirements

HOW TO APPLYTo apply for our courses or for any enquiries, please contact

Professional Development Unit

Email: [email protected]

Phone: +44 (0)1752 586951

Write: Level 4, Rolle Building, Plymouth University, Drake Circus, Plymouth, Devon PL4 8AA

FEES AND FUNDINGFees for the 2017/18 academic yearFor up-to-date fees information, please visit our website: www.plymouth.ac.uk/HHS-PD.

FundingFunding for many of our courses is often available through your employing NHS trust. Please contact your employing trust's education coordinator in the first instance. If you work in the private, independent or voluntary sector, please contact your employer who will advise you accordingly.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE PROFESSIONALS



Elizabeth Hellier, Associate Dean Teaching and Learning



START DATESCourses usually start in September/October and February/March of each academic year. Not all modules will be offered each semester and some courses will not run every year. You are advised to confirm course start dates with our Professional Development Unit at [email protected].

We recommend that you apply for courses early and plan your studies well in advance. Please be aware that all courses run according to a minimum number of students. In the event of a low intake, a course may be rescheduled to an alternative date. Some courses are also subject to maximum student numbers and therefore you’re advised to submit your application form as early as possible. Where courses are already fully booked on receipt of your application form, you will be contacted to discuss alternative course options.

2017/18 semester dates

Semester 1 Start 11 September 2017

End 26 January 2018

Semester 2 Start 29 January 2018

End 3 June 2018

Semester 3 Start 4 June 2018

End 28 September 2018

Every effort has been made to ensure that the dates provided are accurate. However, you should note that dates are subject to change.

LOCATIONCourses are taught at Plymouth University campuses in Plymouth, Exeter and Truro, depending on student numbers and availability.

Our partnership courses are taught at multiple locations across the UK – partnership courses are developed by health and social care providers and accredited by Plymouth University.

Please check the course webpages for further information on where the course will be taught.

A GUIDE TO TERMINOLOGYModule A module is a standalone self-contained unit of teaching, learning and assessment.

Award An award is a course which leads to a qualification, i.e. masters, degree, diploma or certificate.

LevelLevel of difficulty graded as per the Framework for Higher Education Qualifications (FHEQ) of degree awarding bodies in England, Wales and Northern Ireland Levels 4, 5, 6 and 7.

• Level 4 is the equivalent of first stage undergraduate study (for example, Certificate of Higher Education)

• Level 5 is the equivalent of second stage undergraduate study (for example, Diploma of Higher Education, Foundation degree)

• Level 6 is the equivalent of final stage undergraduate study (for example, Bachelors degree)

• Level 7 is postgraduate study (for example, Masters degree)

Each module is assigned a level.

CreditCredit is a means of quantifying and recognising learning whenever it is achieved. Credit is assigned to individual modules and to whole programmes.

Our programmes are aimed at a wide range of health and social care professionals from various career stages and professional development levels. There are a large number of options that can meet professional and organisational needs to enhance practice and service delivery within an academic framework. For detailed information about our programmes, please visit our website www.plymouth.ac.uk/hhs-pd.

Allied Health Professions

Advanced Professional Practice (Health and Social Care Professions)

MSc/PgDip/PgCert

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Advanced Professional Practice in Dietetics

MSc/PgDip/PgCert

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Advanced Professional Practice in Neurological Rehabilitation

MSc/PgDip/PgCert

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Advanced Professional Practice in Occupational Therapy

MSc/PgDip/PgCert

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Advanced Professional Practice in Paediatric Dietetics

MSc/PgDip/PgCert

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Advanced Professional Practice in Physiotherapy

MSc/PgDip/PgCert

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Advanced Professional Practice in Safeguarding Adults

MSc/PgDip/PgCert

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Advanced Professional Practice in Social Work with Children and Families

MSc/PgDip/PgCert

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Clinical Research

MClinRes/PgDip/PgCert

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Human Nutrition

MSc/PgDip/PgCert

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Pre-Hospital Critical Care/Retrieval and Transfer

MSc/PgDip/PgCert

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Nursing and Midwifery

Advanced Critical Care Practitioner

MSc/PgDip

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Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioner

MSc/PgDip/PgCert

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Advanced Professional Practice (Clinical Practitioner)

MSc/PgDip/PgCert

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Advanced Professional Practice (Community and Primary Care Practitioner)

MSc/PgDip/PgCert

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Advanced Professional Practice (Mental Health Practitioner)

MSc/PgDip/PgCert

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Advanced Professional Practice (Nursing and Midwifery Professions)

MSc/PgDip/PgCert

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Contemporary Healthcare (Education)

MSc/PgDip/PgCert

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Surgical Care Practitioner (Abdominal, Pelvic and General Surgery)

MSc/PgDip

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Surgical Care Practitioner (Cardiothoracic Surgery)

MSc/PgDip

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Surgical Care Practitioner (Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery)

MSc/PgDip

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Find out more about our postgraduate opportunities by visiting one of our open evenings: www.plymouth.ac.uk/opendays



POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMMES


ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONSAdvanced Professional Practice (Health and Social Care Professions) | MSc/PgDip/PgCertAre you a health or social care professional looking to develop your key advanced practitioner knowledge and skills? You'll enhance your current knowledge and expertise, linking it to contemporary literature, theory and research and apply it to your area of practice. Our range of optional modules gives you the flexibility and choice to tailor your learning to your workplace.

Key features

• Train to become an evidence-based practitioner, equipped to manage and lead in busy and constantly changingsettings.

• Study alongside an inter-professional range of health and social care professionals from a variety ofbackgrounds, for example allied health professionals, nursing, medical and social care.

• Benefit from our collaboration with the Faculty of Business who provide modules in leadership and management.• Choose from optional modules in a range of specialist areas such as the management of long-term conditions,

pathomechanics and rehabilitation of gait and balance, rehabilitation: cognition, perception and behaviour, andmany more.

• Complete the programme in a year, with a one year full-time study option. Alternatively, balance work and caringcommitments by studying part time over two years and up to a maximum of five years.

• Make the most of our approach to blended learning, which combines short study blocks and distance learningtechnologies with face-to-face teaching, enhancing the learning process by allowing time for reflection. Studycomprises a mixture of lectures, practicals, seminars and tutorials.

• A range of assessments are used across our modules, including evidence-based case studies, portfolios andservice delivery proposals as well as written and oral work. These are designed to link your knowledge and skillsto your area of practice and to enable you to develop advanced practitioner skills.

• Learn from research active teaching staff, with national and international reputations in their specialist area. You’llbe encouraged to join our faculty’s research groups, nested under the Institute of Health and Community, andwill work with our experienced staff on your own research project.

• Choose from three award pathways with full- and part-time options: postgraduate certificate (PgCert), 60 credits;postgraduate diploma (PgDip), 120 credits; and masters (MSc), 180 credits.

Discover more: www.plymouth.ac.uk/pg/4464 Talk to the programme lead, Susan May: [email protected]


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Advanced Professional Practice in Dietetics | MSc/PgDip/PgCertAre you a registered dietitian who wants to advance your professional practice? This pathway has a specialist core ‘dietetic practice: supported study’ module, which enables you to investigate and design an evidence-based service improvement within your own specialist field of practice.

Key features

• Learn in a team with international research profiles in dietetics who will help you take the next step in your career.• Be trained to become an evidence-based practitioner, equipped to manage and lead in busy and constantly

changing settings.• Take the opportunity to study in an inter-professional setting with inter-professional core and optional modules.• Shape your learning journey – you’ll have opportunities to tailor your learning in the workplace through module

assignments and the supported independent study module.• Chose optional modules in leadership and management and prepare yourself to take senior roles within your

field.• Complete the programme in a year, with the introduction of a one year full-time study option. Alternatively,

balance work and caring commitments by studying part time over two years and up to a maximum of five years.• Take advantage of the flexibility our programme offers. You can study much of the programme by distance

learning. Modules taught face-to-face are delivered in short, intensive blocks in Plymouth to enable you to complete them with minimum travel and time away from your other commitments.

• Benefit from learning within supportive multi-professional and inter-agency environments. Our programme is delivered by experts in a setting where innovative thinking regarding advanced professional development is put into practice.

• Choose from three award pathways with full- and part-time options: postgraduate certificate (PgCert), 60 credits; postgraduate diploma (PgDip), 120 credits; and masters (MSc), 180 credits.

Discover more: www.plymouth.ac.uk/pg/4472 Talk to the programme lead, Anne Payne: [email protected]

Advanced Professional Practice in Neurological Rehabilitation | MSc/PgDip/PgCertAre you passionate about neurological rehabilitation? Do you want to develop advanced practitioner skills and knowledge along with a critical thinking ethos? Do you want to challenge your current practice and be innovative in applying your studies to your area of practice? This successful pathway is taught by an enthusiastic research active team who are specialists in neurological rehabilitation, and is endorsed by the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy.

Key features

• Progress your career and become a leader in this specialist area with a programme formed on evidence-based clinical practice, incorporating practical skill development.

• Increase your skills in reflection, analysis and critical debate, as well as developing your knowledge base of this cutting-edge subject. The assignments for all modules are designed to help you link theory to practice.

• Be taught by national and international experts who will work with you on your own research project. Join our faculty’s Rehabilitation research group.

• Further your research skills through use of the University’s highly advanced equipment at the Human Movement and Function Laboratory.

• Choose specialist skills modules such as injection therapy for your continuing professional development. You may also study modules in leadership and management to widen your skills set.

• Benefit from blended learning teaching, which combines short study blocks and distance learning technologies with face-to-face teaching, enhancing the learning process by allowing time for reflection.

• Take advantage of flexible study – you can complete the programme over one year full time or from two-to-five years part time.


Discover more: www.plymouth.ac.uk/pg/4468 Talk to the programme lead, Amanda Denton: [email protected]




Advanced Professional Practice in Occupational Therapy | MSc/PgDip/PgCertAre you an occupational therapist wishing to develop your skills and knowledge in critical thinking? This pathway will help you to improve people’s health and wellbeing by implementing innovative, evidence-based practice in a range of practice settings. You will be able to develop your skills and knowledge in research and scholarly activity around the core principles of occupational therapy. This pathway enables you to explore innovative occupational therapy and occupational science in depth.

Key features

• Reflect and utilise a range of evidence to support your professional occupational therapy practice.• Study on a programme with a long esteemed history and join the many hundreds of successful graduates from

all over the world. You will learn to apply up-to-date knowledge of research and theory to enhance your creativity and flexibility, and to develop the academic skills needed to work effectively in modern health and social care settings.

• Become an evidence-based practitioner, equipped to manage and lead in busy and constantly changing settings. Take the opportunity to study in an inter-professional setting with inter-professional core and optional modules.

• Join an enthusiastic team of occupational therapists, undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD students who are pushing forward the boundaries of knowledge on occupational science and occupational therapy.

• Choose this occupational therapy pathway and study four core modules (applying evidence to practice, occupational therapy practice: supported study, project design for research, research dissertation) and choose three further modules that are profession specific.

• Shape your learning journey – you can step off the pathway with a postgraduate certificate (three modules) or postgraduate diploma (six modules) if you wish, or you can continue on to a masters degree.

• Learn about research and plan and carry out your own research project as part of the masters degree with the support of experienced occupational therapy tutors.

• Complete the programme in a year, with the introduction of a one year full-time study option. Alternatively, balance work and caring commitments by studying part time over two or three years and up to a maximum of five years.

• Take advantage of the flexibility our programme offers. You can study some of the programme by distance learning. Modules taught face-to-face are delivered in short, intensive blocks in Plymouth to enable you to complete them with minimum travel and time away from your other commitments.

• Tailor your learning in the workplace through module assignments and the supported independent study module.

• Study modules in leadership and management and widen your skills set.• Learn within our supportive multi-professional and inter-agency environments. Our programme is delivered by

experts in a setting where innovative thinking regarding advanced professional development is put into practice.• Choose from three award pathways with full- and part-time options: postgraduate certificate (PgCert), 60 credits;

postgraduate diploma (PgDip), 120 credits; and masters (MSc), 180 credits.

Discover more: www.plymouth.ac.uk/pg/4466 Talk to the programme lead, Alison Warren: [email protected]


Advanced Professional Practice in Paediatric Dietetics | MSc/PgDip/PgCertAre you a qualified dietitian working in paediatric dietetics? Take your career further with our specialist course delivered in partnership with the Paediatric Group of the British Dietetic Association. You’ll benefit from the knowledge and experience of leading clinical practitioners from across the UK and develop as an evidence-based practitioner with advanced skills in clinical reasoning, critical appraisal, problem solving and leadership.

Key features

• Benefit from teaching delivered at Plymouth University and leading children’s hospitals across the UK, including the Royal Liverpool Children’s Hospital, Birmingham Children’s Hospital, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, Great Ormond Street Hospital London, Manchester Children’s Hospital, John Radcliffe Hospital Oxford, and the Royal Hospital for Sick Children Glasgow.

• Have time to reflect with both core and pathway-specific modules taught using blended learning techniques, combining short study blocks with distance learning technologies.

• Get support from experienced and enthusiastic staff who will encourage your personal development.• Take advantage of single, standalone modules that can be taken for continuing professional development.• Learn in an inter-professional setting with inter-professional modules, including modules in leadership and

management.• Become an evidence-based practitioner equipped to manage and lead in dynamic settings with our core

modules applying evidence to practice and developing self and others.• Tailor your learning to the workplace through module assignments.• Fast-track your progression with the introduction of a one-year, full-time mode of study. You can choose from

three award pathways with full and part-time options: postgraduate certificate (PgCert), 60 credits; postgraduate diploma (PgDip), 120 credits; and masters (MSc), 180 credits. The full-time route will normally take one year and the part-time route will normally take two years.

Discover more: www.plymouth.ac.uk/pg/4470 Talk to the programme lead, Anne Payne: [email protected]

Advanced Professional Practice in Physiotherapy | MSc/PgDip/PgCertAre you a qualified physiotherapist looking to enhance your current skills and knowledge whilst developing a strong critical thinking ethos? This programme offers you the opportunity to review your current practice and evaluate new approaches, ensuring that you are equipped to meet the challenges of working in an ever changing physiotherapy profession with confidence.

Key features

• Become an evidence-based practitioner equipped to manage and lead in dynamic settings with the introduction of core modules on applying evidence to practice and developing self and others.

• Feel encouraged and supported by this programme’s experienced and enthusiastic staff, who are recognised for their national and international research reputations.

• Make use of blended learning, combining short study blocks and distance learning technologies.• Explore continuing professional development modules aligned to specialities such as neurology,

musculoskeletal or respiratory; and study modules in leadership and management.• Benefit from the opportunity to tailor your learning to your interests or workplace through module assignments

and the supported independent study module.• Take advantage of the opportunity to study flexibly by completing the programme in one-to-five years.• This programme is endorsed by the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists.• Choose from three award pathways with full and part-time options: postgraduate certificate (PgCert), 60 credits;


Discover more: www.plymouth.ac.uk/pg/4474 Talk to the programme lead, Susan May: [email protected]




Advanced Professional Practice in Safeguarding Adults | MSc/PgDip/PgCertDo you want to improve the delivery of a joined up approach to safeguarding adults? Developed in partnership with employers and stakeholders, this programme blends practice experience across a range of professions with academic knowledge. Designed with an inter-professional approach to learning, this programme will enhance your professional practice, helping you to develop integration in organisational and practice settings to protect those most vulnerable and at risk of abuse and neglect in society.

Key features

• Study alongside an inter-professional range of health and social care practitioners and develop your understanding of other professional groups' perspectives on safeguarding adults.

• Informed and contemporary – this programme has been developed in consultation with local employers and specialist practitioners in safeguarding.

• Develop and apply your critical reflection skills in risk, decision-making and application of the law.• Learn from a research active interdisciplinary team with international, national and local profiles who will support

you to develop your research.• Benefit from an assessment strategy, which blends practice experience and knowledge.• Take advantage of the use of blended learning, combining short study blocks and distance learning technologies.• Balance work and other commitments by studying part time over three years.• Choose from three award pathways with full- and part-time options: postgraduate certificate (PgCert), 60 credits;


Discover more: www.plymouth.ac.uk/pg/5783 Talk to the programme lead, Diane Galpin: [email protected]

Advanced Professional Practice in Social Work with Children and Families | MSc/PgDip/PgCertDevelop your techniques for understanding, assessing and working with family issues on the MSc Advanced Professional Practice in Social Work with Children and Families. Explore the links between good social work practice and the legal context for child and family work, and the significance of being a social work practitioner in a multi-professional environment. Strongly linked to practice, assignments are mainly connected to areas of particular concern in your day-to-day professional life.

Key features

• Train to become an evidence-based practitioner, equipped to manage and lead in busy and constantly changing settings.

• Study in an inter-professional setting with inter-professional core and optional modules, including modules in leadership and management.

• Enjoy blended learning teaching, which combines short study blocks and distance learning technologies with face-to-face teaching. Study comprises a mixture of lectures, practicals, seminars and tutorials. The learning process is enhanced by allowing time for reflection.

• Study full time and complete the programme in a year or balance work and caring commitments by studying part time over two years and up to a maximum of five years.

• Assessments include evidence-based case studies, portfolios, service delivery proposals, and written and oral work. These link theory to practice and enable you to develop advanced practitioner skills.

• Our research active teaching staff will help you develop your own research project. You’ll be encouraged to join our faculty’s research groups.


Discover more: www.plymouth.ac.uk/pg/4974 Talk to the programme lead, Penelope Welbourne: [email protected]




Clinical Research | MClinRes/PgDip/PgCertDo you want to become a leader in clinical research? The MClinRes covers the whole research process from initial question generation through to designing, managing and undertaking research, and the dissemination and implementation of findings. Learn from a team of experts in clinical research, drawn from a wide range of disciplines including nursing, midwifery, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, optometry, dietetics and medicine as well as representatives from patient and public support groups.

Key features

• Progress your career and become a leader in clinical research with a programme that provides both theoretical and first hand practical experience of the whole research process, from developing a clinically relevant question through to implementation of research in clinical practice.

• Aligns with key Health Education England and National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) objectives to develop clinical academics and increase research capacity in nurses, midwives, allied healthcare professionals and healthcare scientists.

• Experts drawn from across Plymouth University, other higher education institutes, the Research Design Service, the National Institute for Health Research Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care and the Peninsula Clinical Trials Unit.

• Learn from nurses, midwives, allied healthcare professionals and healthcare scientists who are actively involved in the management and delivery of relevant clinical research, with national and international reputations in their specialist areas.

• Strong input from patient and public support groups, NHS staff, managers and commissioners in developing and running the programme so the content reflects the current needs of the NHS.

• You’ll be encouraged to join the Institute of Health and Community, and will be mentored and supervised by experienced clinical academics on your own research project. Specific research supervisors relevant to your profession and area of interest are allocated within two weeks of the start of the programme.

• The MClinRes is specifically designed to help you gain future funding to further your clinical academic career. The programme specifically aims to progress you along the new NIHR clinical academic training programme for registered non-medical/dental healthcare professionals.

• An additional module on research management and mentorship, provided at the end of the programme, supports you in publishing and disseminating your research findings, presenting at national and international locations and applying for NIHR internships and fellowships.

• Make the most of our blended learning approach, which combines short study blocks and distance learning technologies with face-to-face teaching, enhancing the learning process by allowing time for reflection.

• Benefit from an enriched student experience – you will share core and optional modules with health and social care students studying across faculty MSc pathways. Students and alumni have been involved in the programme management, design and recruitment.


Discover more: www.plymouth.ac.uk/pg/5540 Talk to the programme lead, Jonathan Marsden: [email protected]



Human Nutrition | MSc/PgDip/PgCertDesigned for graduates with a non-nutrition background, this broad-ranging programme offers you an advanced understanding of nutrition and the links between diet and health. Core nutrition science will underpin a critical evaluation of the role of nutrition in public health at the local, national and international level. Explore the role of nutrition in exercise and sports performance and graduate with the skills to work and lead as a nutritionist in a wide range of environments.

Key features

• Designed for graduates with a non-nutrition background, this full-time programme will provide you with a new and alternative career pathway.

• Train to become an evidence-based nutrition professional equipped to manage and lead in dynamic settings.• The only programme of this type in the South West region.• Delivered by a team with extensive experience in the delivery of masters-level modules and a diverse range of

expertise in nutrition, public health, research, sports nutrition and physiology. The team have external recognition for the quality of feedback to support student learning.

• The programme will be accredited by the Association for Nutrition (AfN) allowing students who have completed the masters degree to apply for direct entry at associate level to the UK Voluntary Register of Nutritionists.

• Focuses on public health nutrition and disease prevention at the local, national and international level.• Develop an advanced knowledge and understanding of current and topical issues in sports nutrition and apply

them to current practice utilising links with local sporting partnerships.• Engage with local AfN registrants who will provide curriculum enrichment, local expertise and knowledge of

future career pathways.• Research informed teaching will be embedded throughout the curriculum.• Issues around sustainability of nutrition will be threaded throughout the programme.• Gain a core understanding of professional practice and ethics, elements of which are embedded within the

programme.• Choose from three award pathways: postgraduate certificate (PgCert), 60 credits; postgraduate diploma (PgDip),

120 credits; and masters (MSc), 180 credits.

Discover more: www.plymouth.ac.uk/pg/5742 Talk to the programme lead, Melanie Moore: [email protected]




Pre-Hospital Critical Care/Retrieval and Transfer | MSc/PgDip/PgCertAre you a healthcare professional working in the pre-hospital arena, wishing to expand your knowledge, skills and clinical decision-making within critical care? This unique pathway has been specifically developed to target the national need for specialist practice in pre-hospital critical care. It includes the educational development of pre-hospital care providers in independent patient stabilisation and subsequent primary, delayed primary and secondary retrieval and transfer.

Key features

• Benefit from a programme that is highly practically orientated and outcome focused in both educational and assessment strategies. Our curriculum has been developed through an expert collaboration of Plymouth University healthcare professional academics in close association with Devon Air Ambulance Trust clinical specialists.

• Complete the full-time programme in a year or balance your commitments over three years with our part-time study option.

• Attend multiple unique workshops, practical skills sessions and simulation activities.• Develop critical care paramedic knowledge and cutting-edge skills such as video laryngoscopy and ultrasound

skills.• Engage in quality improvement, knowledge creation and dissemination of best practice through publication and

presentation.• Use of blended learning as a mode of delivery incorporating study blocks and distance learning technologies.• Seize the opportunity to develop and apply advanced knowledge and skills to your area of clinical practice. Our

teaching faculty includes consultants from a wide array of civilian and military acute care specialties (for example, pre-hospital, emergency medicine, anaesthesia, intensive care) working alongside specialist critical care and air ambulance paramedics and expert educationalists.


Discover more: www.plymouth.ac.uk/pg/5690 Talk to the programme lead, Peter Allum: [email protected]


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NURSING AND MIDWIFERYAdvanced Critical Care Practitioner | MSc/PgDipAdvance your knowledge and clinical skills, positioning yourself to deliver a high-quality, patient-led service. You’ll improve your critical care practice in terms of efficiency and effectiveness. The final year will equip you with advanced research skills and deeper understanding of how to improve patient care. You’ll access opportunities to advance your career through the contemporary focus of the programme and collaboration with industry stakeholders.

Key features

• Enhance your skills, knowledge and career with a programme designed specifically for existing advanced criticalcare practitioners.

• Shape your studies around your existing expertise with our student-centred approach.• Join a programme developed through a dynamic collaborative relationship between Plymouth University and the

NHS, providing opportunities for networking and career development.• Equip yourself with the skills to be responsive to the ever-changing nature of the healthcare environment. This

contemporary and dynamic programme means you can position yourself at the leading edge of critical carepractice.

• Update and enhance your skill set thanks to the research-informed teaching embedded throughout ourcurriculum.

• Benefit from the extensive professional experience of our team who hail from a diverse range of health and socialcare environments.

• Increase your understanding and use of complex data to evaluate the effectiveness of critical care delivery. Thiswill enable you to be innovative and utilise both knowledge and skills to continue to improve patient care.

• Demonstrate your ability to work in complex and unpredictable environments, developing your problem solvingskills and the ability to take the initiative in your workplace.

• Develop a clinically focused project to enhance and benefit your practice.• Choose from two award pathways: postgraduate diploma (PgDip), 120 credits; and masters (MSc), 180 credits.

Discover more: www.plymouth.ac.uk/pg/5390 Talk to the programme lead, Rachel Pascoe: [email protected]




Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioner | MSc/PgDip/PgCertDo you want to enhance your career opportunities and learning within the specialist field of neonatal nursing? Our innovative new MSc Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioner programme has been developed through close collaboration with key stakeholders, including Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust, to empower you to develop as an advanced practitioner. The contemporary focus inspires efficiency, effectiveness and quality of practice to positively impact on neonatal care.

Key features

• Seize opportunities to study in an inter-professional setting with inter-professional core modules delivered by an academic team with extensive experience, as well as programme-specific modules delivered by specialist neonatal practitioners.

• Gain a deeper understanding of the advanced clinical practice role and learn how this level of practice is used to enhance the patient journey.

• Develop a critical understanding of the contemporary issues that impact on neonatal practice and how the advancing level of practice influences the provision of high-quality, patient-centred care.

• Critically review trends in theory, practice and management relating to neonatal practice.• Develop a contemporary approach to health and social care through advancing knowledge and skills in

professional practice.• Ensure professional practice is underpinned by a focus on excellence and sustainability by developing a critical,

analytical and creative approach.• Promote an understanding of the philosophy and procedures involved in research and use of evidence, with

the opportunity to design and undertake research that will enhance and develop patient care and/or service provision within the neonatal arena.

• Be equipped to take on lead roles in management, clinical practice and/or education.• Part-time programme offering flexible delivery and three exit points to support a learner-centred approach:

postgraduate certificate (PgCert), 60 credits; postgraduate diploma (PgDip), 120 credits; and masters (MSc), 180 credits.

Discover more: www.plymouth.ac.uk/pg/6136 Talk to the programme lead, Louise Winfield: [email protected]

Advanced Professional Practice (Clinical Practitioner) | MSc/PgDip/PgCertAre you looking to develop your clinical career? This clinically-focused specialist pathway has been designed to prepare and support nurses, midwives and allied health professionals to develop understanding of the underpinning principles of clinical assessment and examination to inform safe and effective clinical decision-making.

Key features

• Gain the knowledge and skills to work in any sector of the health service (for example, pre-hospital, primary care and secondary care settings).

• Develop your skills and knowledge in relation to assessment, diagnosis, and delivery of evidence-based care.• Assessments are tailored to your own practice so you gain the knowledge and skills required for your specialism.• Study in an inter-professional learning environment and share your knowledge, skills and approaches to care with

other healthcare professionals.• Benefit from learning delivered by an experienced academic team with input from practising clinicians, and a

curriculum underpinned by evidence-based practice.• Design and undertake your own research, and enhance patient care and/or service provision.• Choose from optional modules on independent and supplementary prescribing.• Gain professional promotion and take on lead roles in management, clinical practice and/or education.• Study part time and choose from three awards: postgraduate certificate (PgCert), 60 credits; postgraduate

diploma (PgDip), 120 credits; and masters (MSc), 180 credits.

Discover more: www.plymouth.ac.uk/pg/6131 Talk to the programme lead, Catherine McDougall: [email protected]



Advanced Professional Practice (Community and Primary Care Practitioner) | MSc/PgDip/PgCertDo you want to advance your practitioner knowledge and skills within community and primary care? This specialist pathway has been designed to prepare and support Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) registered professionals working in a community environment for the service delivery changes taking place in this area. You will be equipped to meet these changes and to thrive in the new service configurations as well as learning to work in new ways.

Key features

• Developed in response to the policy context of integrated care (the NHS Five Year Forward View, 2014), this pathway promotes partnership working, the management of complexity and the need to address health inequalities.

• Critically examine new service delivery models as they are developed, and enhance your clinical skills to meet the integrated workforce agenda, including holistic assessment, problem solving and single assessment processes.

• Gain the necessary generic practice skills to function within the community/primary care environment and to analyse integrated practice, whilst critically examining the nature, purposes and practice of public health.

• Deliver health promotion to a range of people and contribute to reducing health inequalities.• Flexibly respond to the transformation of services and working across professional and organisational

boundaries.• Benefit from both inter-professional core and optional modules developed with input from practising clinicians,

and peer-to-peer inter-professional learning.• Improve patient care and/or service delivery by choosing your own research project• Research informed teaching is embedded throughout the curriculum, and you can study independent and

supplementary prescribing modules.• Advance your career and take leading roles in management, clinical practice and/or education.• Study part time and choose from three awards: postgraduate certificate (PgCert), 60 credits; postgraduate

diploma (PgDip), 120 credits; and masters (MSc), 180 credits.

Discover more: www.plymouth.ac.uk/pg/6132 Talk to the programme lead, Kim Greening: [email protected]




Advanced Professional Practice (Mental Health Practitioner) | MSc/PgDip/PgCertGain advanced practitioner knowledge and skills within mental health practice with our MSc Advanced Professional Practice (Mental Health Practitioner). This clinically-focused specialist pathway will equip you with enhanced mental health assessment and intervention skills to effectively support people who are suffering from mental health problems, in their recovery journey. The programme is suitable for all health and social care professionals.

Key features

• A contemporary and dynamic programme responsive to the changing health and social care environment,including telehealth and sustainability.

• Develop clinical skills in contemporary, evidence-based mental health assessment, formulation andinterventions.

• Engage in reflective practice to support person-centred and recovery orientated ways of working.• Experience a number of formative and summative assessed role play interactions to boost confidence and

transfer these skills into your practice.• Undertake modules enabling you to achieve a named pathway award in mental health to support your career

development.• Embed independent and supplementary prescribing into your masters degree.• Learn in an inter-professional setting, and benefit from inter-professional core and optional modules, delivered

by research active academics and practising clinicians.• Gain the skills to lead within management, clinical practice and/or education.• Part-time programme offering flexible delivery and three exit points to support a learner centred approach:

postgraduate certificate (PgCert), 60 credits; postgraduate diploma (PgDip), 120 credits; and masters (MSc), 180credits.

Discover more: www.plymouth.ac.uk/pg/6133 Talk to the programme lead, Francis Thompson: [email protected]

Advanced Professional Practice (Nursing and Midwifery Professions) | MSc/PgDip/PgCertAre you a registered health or social care professional looking to develop your advanced practitioner knowledge and skills? The MSc Advanced Professional Practice (Nursing and Midwifery Professions) has been developed to meet the needs of nurses, midwives and allied health professionals working across all healthcare sectors. You will develop your practice by building on your current experience and knowledge, leading to improved ways of working and a positive impact on patient care.

Key features

• Gain a deeper understanding of the advanced clinical practice role and how this is used to enhance the patientjourney whilst ensuring the right care is delivered by the right clinician at the right time.

• A contemporary and dynamic programme that enables you to meet the challenges of working in an everchanging health and social care environment with confidence.

• Build a qualification around your personal professional needs by picking and choosing optional modules withrelevance to your area of practice and benefit from a student-centred approach providing flexibility in yourchoice of award.

• Assessments link theory to practice to prepare you to deliver high-quality patient centred care. You’ll alsoundertake your own research project to enhance and develop patient care and/or service provision.

• Thrive by studying in an inter-professional setting and share your knowledge, skills and approaches with otherprofessionals.

• Widen your skills with our inter-professional modules developed in collaboration with practicing clinicians.Choose independent and supplementary prescribing modules to advance your knowledge.

• Develop the knowledge and skill to lead in management, clinical practice and/or education.• Choose from three award pathways with full and part-time options: postgraduate cCertificate (PgCert), 60

credits; postgraduate diploma (PgDip), 120 credits; and masters (MSc), 180 credits.

Discover more: www.plymouth.ac.uk/pg/6135 Talk to the programme lead, Jane Peters: [email protected]






Contemporary Healthcare (Education) | MSc/PgDip/PgCertHave you thought about your future as one of innovation, change, education and excellence? Are you are keen to take your nursing knowledge and skills to postgraduate level and develop your educational role? MSc Contemporary Healthcare (Education) offers a recordable Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) qualification that could be your route to a career in teaching within academic or clinical settings. In higher education institutions, you can become part of an academic community working to develop, impart and apply current knowledge using a range of teaching and learning approaches. In practice settings, postgraduate study prepares you to identify and meet the clinical team’s continuing professional development needs whilst also leading the development of practice.

Key features

• Raise the standard of nursing through educational expertise. The MSc Contemporary Healthcare (Education) provides education at an advanced level, responsive to the changing health and social care environment and using the latest technological developments.

• Become part of an academic community and develop close partnership working. You’ll work with other professionals and forge relationships in the academic arena, enabling you to influence the future of nursing.

• Make the most of our blended learning, which includes various learning and teaching strategies such as e-learning and problem based learning. Research informed teaching is embedded throughout the curriculum.

• Benefit from a programme, which meets the requirements of professional bodies such as the NMC recordable teaching qualification, as well as the award of Associate Fellow, Higher Education Academy.

• Select a route within the pathway to enhance your knowledge and skills in a specific area of your choice, undertaking a seamless journey from practitioner to educator.

• Part-time programme offering flexible delivery and three exit points: postgraduate certificate (PgCert), 60 credits; postgraduate diploma (PgDip), 120 credits; and masters (MSc), 180 credits.

Discover more: www.plymouth.ac.uk/pg/5533 Talk to the programme lead, Nadine Abelson-Mitchell: [email protected]

Surgical Care Practitioner (Abdominal, Pelvic and General Surgery) | MSc/PgDipDo you want to focus on abdominal, pelvic and general surgery? Develop the necessary skills to become a surgical care practitioner with our nationally recognised and industry accredited programme.

As part of a surgical team, you'll acquire the necessary skills to assist with complex surgical procedures and provide high-quality patient care. You’ll consider approaches to care delivery, investigate the surgical patient experience and conduct a research investigation into a topic tailored to your own needs, enabling you to practise at an advanced level in this emerging specialist role.

Key features

• Advance your professional expertise and specialist knowledge through learning tailored to your specialty.• Expand your practical skills to undertake complex surgical procedures, manage patients intra-operatively and be

responsible for pre-operative and post-operative outpatient clinics.• Benefit from a combination of academic, theoretical and practical teaching, giving you the necessary clinical

skills to meet national industry standards. We have strong links with existing practitioners, and visiting lecturers include current practising qualified Surgical Care Practitioners and Consultant Surgeons.

• Consider research approaches to care delivery and investigate the surgical patient experience. And expand your research knowledge and skills to design and conduct your own study.

• Develop professional experience and specialist knowledge, through our blend of academic and practical teaching, delivered by a team involved in the education and practice development of the Surgical Care Practitioner role at national level for over 15 years.

• Work both autonomously and as part of a multi-profession team.• Cultivate a precise and meticulous work ethic, delivering an effective, safe and efficient service to patients.• Secure the experience you need to excel in unpredictable and highly pressurised clinical environments.• Use your initiative to solve complex problems and deliver high-quality patient care. Previous students have

enabled new service provision, such as satellite clinics for pre- and/or post-operative assessment.• Further your career progression through the Knowledge and Skills Framework on completion of the MSc –

national examples include practitioners achieving Band 8a and 8b who manage their own operation lists or organise and deliver screening and follow-up programmes.

• Royal College of Surgeons accredited programme.• Choose from two award pathways: postgraduate diploma (PgDip), 120 credits; and masters (MSc), 180 credits.







Surgical Care Practitioner (Cardiothoracic Surgery) | MSc/PgDipAre you passionate about cardiothoracics? Deliver care for surgical patients and develop the necessary skills to become a surgical care practitioner. Through this programme, you’ll learn core competences for surgical care practitioners with a focus on cardiothoracic surgery, and secure the experience you need to excel in unpredictable and highly pressurised clinical environments.

You’ll conduct your own research study and apply research to your practice to enhance the patient experience. You will gain the skills to provide care across the entire patient journey from pre-operative to post-operative care.

Key features

• Progress your career through learning tailored to your specialism. And gain the skills needed to excel in changeable and highly pressurised clinical settings.

• Benefit from a combination of theoretical and practical teaching provided by University research active teaching staff and visiting lecturers including current practising qualified Surgical Care Practitioners and Consultant Surgeons.

• Gain the practical skills necessary to provide surgical and clinical care across the entire patient journey from pre-operative outpatient clinics to intra-operatively care to post-operative outpatient clinics.

• Gain the necessary clinical skills to meet national industry standards. • Conduct your own research study and develop expert knowledge in a topic of your choice. Apply research to

your practice and enhance the patient experience.• Explore patient experience and develop innovative approaches to service delivery that enhance the quality of

patient care and generate cost savings for your organisation.• Deliver effective, safe and efficient care to patients by developing a thorough work ethic.• Work both effectively as part of operating theatre team and under your own initiative.• Utilising your learning to gain professional promotion – achieve Band 8a and 8b, manage your own operation list,

plan and implement your own screening and follow-up clinics.• This programme is accredited by the Royal College of Surgeons.• Choose from two award pathways: postgraduate diploma (PgDip), 120 credits; and masters (MSc), 180 credits.


Surgical Care Practitioner (Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery) | MSc/PgDipDo you want to specialise in trauma and orthopaedic surgery? Gain the knowledge and practical skills to become a surgical care practitioner, with a focus on trauma and orthopaedic surgery, working alongside experienced surgical consultants.

You’ll enhance and develop your mastery in a range of advanced clinical skills and knowledge; and improve your practice in terms of efficiency, effectiveness and quality.

Key features

• Gain detailed and comprehensive knowledge, and the operative and technical skills needed as a Surgical Care Practitioner in trauma and orthopaedic surgery.

• Provide high-quality care throughout the patient journey; this includes the outpatients department, pre-admission clinic, operating theatre and post-surgery ward care.

• Meet national industry standards for your profession by learning from current practising qualified Surgical Care Practitioners and Consultant Surgeons.

• Benefit from blended learning that combines theoretical and practical learning with independent study. A number of teaching strategies are used including key lectures, seminars, self-directed learning, workshops and e-learning.

• A contemporary programme that builds on existing good practice and reflects service, political and professional changes.

• You’ll be able to operate in complex and unpredictable situations demonstrating initiative and originality in problem solving.

• Benefit from an evidence-based curriculum that encompasses theoretical components along with specialism focussed competencies.

• The programme is forward-looking, preparing you to meet future challenges in the delivery of a high-quality service to patients and to increase and release your potential.

• Expand your research knowledge and skills to design and conduct your own study.• Advance your career and work as Band 8a and 8b, managing your own operation lists, organising and delivering

screening and follow-up programmes.• Royal College of Surgeons accredited programme.• Choose from two award pathways: postgraduate diploma (PgDip), 120 credits; and masters (MSc), 180 credits.





Our courses are for a variety of health and social care professionals at various career stages and professional development levels. We have an extensive number of options that can meet professional and organisational needs to enhance practice and service delivery within an academic framework. For detailed information about our courses, please visit our website www.plymouth.ac.uk/hhs-pd.


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UNDERGRADUATE COURSES

NURSING AND MIDWIFERYCritical Care | BSc (Hons)/BSc & GradDip/GradCertAdvance your practice in critical and intensive care through a course designed around the person who requires the health intervention and not the place where this is delivered. The course is suitable for clinicians practising in intensive care, high dependency units, emergency and pre-hospital care, and acute care settings.

Key features

• Developed through collaboration with practitioners to ensure is responsive to workforce development needs.• Student engagement in quality improvement, knowledge creation and dissemination of best practice.• Develop specialist and transferable competences within an e-portfolio.• Inter-professional learning with registered healthcare professionals learning alongside medical students (pre-

GMC registration).• A student centred programme that enables choice and values prior experiential learning and experience – you

can accreditation of prior (experiential) learning (AP(E)L) up to a maximum of 60 credits (must be subject related).• Flexibly designed course enabling you to ’step on/off’ over a five-year period in response to service need and

professional circumstances.

Discover more: www.plymouth.ac.uk/pg/5864 Talk to the programme lead, Pam Nelmes: [email protected]

Critical Care (Intercalated) | BSc (Hons)Please note that this course is only available to medical students who have successfully completed or anticipate successful completion of the fourth year of their primary medical degree.

Experience nine months working in critical care and gain a degree at the same time, studying our Intercalated BSc (Hons) Critical Care. Develop your clinical skills and specialist competencies specific to the care of the critically ill, with placements in intensive and high dependency care. Our placement provision is varied and, where possible, negotiated to assist you with the additional living costs incurred such as accommodation and travel. During your intercalation, you will engage in quality improvement and develop your confidence and competence as a leader and member of the healthcare team. The unique mentoring, usually provided by a consultant in intensive care, will also support your progression.

Key features

• Study with the only university to offer an intercalated degree in critical care in the UK.• Explore opportunities to set up placements within your preferred locality, which helps with the cost of living and

the development of relationships and networks where you may wish to work when you complete your primary medical degree.

• Experience a long practice placement working in challenging critical care environment that reflects the continuum of critical care provision.

• Receive mentoring and supervision from an experienced clinician (for example, a Consultant in intensive care medicine).

• Learn with and from others who represent the multi-professional team caring for the critically ill.• Prepare to be a follower and leader exploring and applying key concepts, professional theories and evidence to

practice. • Develop and hone your interpersonal, professional and clinical skills aligned to reputable competency

frameworks and standards (for example, from the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine).• Develop your ability to lead and manage quality improvement and audits, and disseminate your findings widely

via poster and conference presentation, and publication.• Join our growing and active ‘socially connected’ community of intercalated students and graduates/alumni

engaging in mentoring, programme development, recruitment and educational activities.




Professional Development in Advancing Practice | BSc (Hons)/BSc & GradDip/GradCertOur BSc (Hons) Professional Development in Advancing Practice has been designed to support and challenge you to understand and implement the values and principles of advancing your practice. You will study alongside healthcare professionals from different disciplines to encourage co-operation and an understanding of how patient experience is improved with integrated working.

Key features

• Start your professional development journey by gaining an understanding of the complexities involved in advancing your role in practice and develop a deeper understanding on the positive impact this will have in your own clinical area.

• Explore and understand the role of advancing practice in an ever changing health service and where that role fits in the strategic picture of the NHS in the 21st century.

• Find opportunities to transform services in your own clinical area and gain knowledge and appreciation of other professions, specialities and organisations who contribute to patient/client care.

• Be supported to develop relationships with other healthcare professionals and work more effectively across professional and organisational boundaries to enhance patient/client care.

• Become a critical thinking practitioner with a range of transferable skills who can effectively contribute to service enhancement.

• Use the best available evidence, contemporary knowledge and high-level clinical decision-making skills to underpin interventions.

• Develop confidence, competence and emotional resilience to consistently exercise personal responsibility and professional accountability for decision-making and the provision of high-quality safe care.

• Undertake a course that enables choice and values prior experiential learning and experience, targeted at the career development needs of a wide range of healthcare professionals.

• Flexibly designed course enabling you to ’step on/off’ over a five-year period in response to service need and professional circumstances.

Discover more: www.plymouth.ac.uk/pg/6152 Talk to the programme lead, Sharon Russell: [email protected]

Professional Development in Community and Primary Care | BSc (Hons)/BSc & GradDip/GradCertEnhance your career and learning opportunities with our specialist BSc (Hons) Professional Development in Community and Primary Care. You will gain a broad range of academic and practice related skills on which to build your career and future studies. You will also benefit from a teaching team including academics, lecturer practitioners and expert practitioners who have a wealth of experience in teaching and learning informed by research and professional practice.

Key features

• Become a challenging and critical thinking practitioner with a range of transferable skills who can effectively contribute to service enhancement in a community and primary care setting.

• Find opportunities to transform services in your own clinical area and gain knowledge and appreciation of other professions, specialities and organisations who contribute to patient/client care.

• Be supported to develop relationships with other healthcare professionals and work more effectively across professional and organisational boundaries to enhance patient/client care.


• Develop confidence, competence and emotional resilience to consistently exercise personal responsibility and professional accountability for decision making and the provision of high-quality safe care.

• Undertake a course that enables choice and values prior experiential learning and experience targeted at the career development needs of a wide range of healthcare professionals.


Discover more: www.plymouth.ac.uk/pg/6155 Talk to the programme lead, Kim Greening: [email protected]






Professional Development in Critical Care | BSc (Hons)/BSc & GradDip/GradCertThe BSc (Hons) Professional Development in Critical Care has been designed to support and challenge nurses and allied healthcare professionals across all healthcare sectors to understand and implement the values and principles of advancing their practice within critical care. Develop your clinical management planning skills to promote high-quality patient-focused care in clinical practice whilst learning to apply current research and evidence in your practice.

Key features

• Explore the role of critical care in an ever-changing health service and how that role fits into the strategic picture of the NHS in the 21st century.

• Become a challenging and critical thinking practitioner with a range of transferable skills who can effectively contribute to service enhancement.



• Study a course that values prior experiential learning and experience, also taking into account the career development needs of a wide range of healthcare professionals.

• Develop inter-professional relationships and learn to work more effectively across professional and organisational boundaries to enhance the care you give.



Professional Development in End of Life Care | BSc (Hons)/BSc & GradDip/GradCertThe BSc (Hons) Professional Development in End of Life Care offers an innovative approach to gaining specialist and advanced knowledge ‘tailor built’ for those working in end of life care. As a health and social care professional, you will be supported to enhance your knowledge, skills and competencies to support others to provide a high standard of end of life care in a range of settings.

Key features

• Undertake a course reflecting the latest NICE guidelines and addressing the challenges faced by healthcare professionals working in end of life care environments.

• Gain the specialist skills required to provide high-quality, tailored care responsive to the individual needs and preferences of patients in their last days and their families.

• Explore pain and symptom management from both pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapeutic interventions and learn more about the main sources of psychological distress in patients who have entered the palliative care stage.

• Understand the common manifestations of ‘normal’ grief and therapeutic interventions in the facilitation of grief work in clinical practice.

• Learn from end of life practitioners with our academic partnership modules – very specific work related modules developed and delivered in partnership with local healthcare providers.

• Forge inter-professional relationships and learn to work more effectively across professional and organisational boundaries to enhance the care you give.


• Flexibly designed course enabling you to 'step on/off’ over a five-year period in response to service need and professional circumstances.


Professional Development in Health and Social Care | BSc (Hons)/BSc & GradDip/GradCertGain a degree and advance your career with our BSc (Hons) Professional Development in Health and Social Care, a flexible course that is aimed at a wide range of health and social care professionals at various stages of career and professional development. You will have the opportunity to choose from a large variety of modules to reflect diversity of practice and take an innovative approach to gaining specialist and advanced knowledge specifically aimed at your individual area of interest and expertise.

Key features

• Study an up-to-date syllabus that meets and exceeds tomorrow’s – as well as today’s – workforce needs, on a course developed with stakeholder engagement (through commissioners, employers and students) in both content and delivery mode.

• Become a critical thinking practitioner with a range of transferable skills who can effectively contribute to service enhancement.



• Undertake a course that enables choice and values prior experiential learning and experience; targeted at the career development needs of a wide range of healthcare professionals with excellent opportunities for inter-professional learning.

• Select modules that enhance your specific work role with course pathways offering over 100 module options addressing a wide range of specialist clinical areas.





Professional Development in Long Term Conditions | BSc (Hons)/BSc & GradDip/GradCertThe BSc (Hons) Professional Development in Long Term Conditions will build on your ability to care for patients with long-term conditions as well as enabling you to support your patients to manage their own health and agree a care plan based on their personal needs. This pathway is aimed at a wide range of health and social care professionals and offers an approach to gaining specialist and advanced knowledge specifically tailored for those working in long-term care.

Key features

• Gain the knowledge and ability to care for patients with long-term conditions and assist them to manage their own health by creating care plans based on their individual needs.

• Undertake a course reflective of the current health and social care agenda within long-term conditions that is flexible and responsive to employers’ needs and service delivery.

• Find out more about current therapeutic, technological and complementary interventions to empower your patient and their family to live as full a life as possible.

• Establish partnership working with members of the multidisciplinary team whilst respecting professional identity and remit, as well as giving you the opportunity to enhance the care you give by learning to work more effectively across professional and organisational boundaries.

• Select optional modules to enhance your specific work role and to help you become a challenging and critical thinking practitioner with a range of transferable skills who can effectively contribute to service enhancement.


• Underpin your interventions with the best available evidence, contemporary knowledge and high-level clinical decision-making skills.






Professional Development in Mental Health | BSc (Hons)/BSc & GradDip/GradCertThe BSc (Hons) Professional Development in Mental Health is aimed at healthcare practitioners with substantive experience of working in mental healthcare. You will enhance your skills in evidence-based psychosocial interventions to enable you to work effectively using psychologically informed evidence-based practice. You will develop theoretical knowledge alongside the enhanced engagement and intervention skills you need to support service users in their recovery journey.

Key features

• Developed in response to a growing need for support from specialist services, this course will give you up-to-date skills to support and treat mental health problems.

• Enhance your skills in evidence-based psychosocial interventions to bridge the gap between formal psychological therapy and mental health work in general.

• Increase your theoretical knowledge as well as enhance the engagement and intervention skills you need to support service users in their recovery journey.

• Encounter a range of practice approaches to engaging and working effectively with people who are experiencing complex mental health difficulties.

• Make the most of the various opportunities for inter-professional learning as part of the course delivery.• Select optional modules to enhance your specific work role and to help you become a challenging and critical

thinking practitioner with a range of transferable skills who can effectively contribute to service enhancement.• Underpin your interventions with the best available evidence, contemporary knowledge and high-level clinical

decision-making skills.• Develop confidence, competence and emotional resilience to consistently exercise personal responsibility and

professional accountability for decision-making and the provision of high-quality safe care.• Flexibly designed course enabling you to ’step on/off’ over a five-year period in response to service need and


Discover more: www.plymouth.ac.uk/pg/6167 Talk to the programme lead, Francis Thompson: [email protected]



Professional Development in Neonatal Care | BSc (Hons)/BSc & GradDip/GradCertThe BSc (Hons) Professional Development in Neonatal Care encompasses a range of academic and practice related skills. It is open to practitioners registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) with experience of working within neonatal care. You will develop and utilise appropriate skills whilst promoting an environment conducive to the provision of high-quality neonatal care for infants and their families.

Key features

• Discover an innovative approach to gaining specialist and advanced knowledge ‘tailor built’ for the neonatal practitioner with assignments designed to translate knowledge and skills to the practice environment.

• Meet the nurses qualified in specialty competencies and have access to a large number of options that meet professional and organisational needs to enhance practice and service delivery.

• Learn from neonatal care practitioners with our academic partnership modules with very specific work related modules developed and delivered in partnership with local healthcare providers.





Professional Development in Nursing | BSc (Hons)/BSc & GradDip/GradCertCreated with input from colleagues working in the health sector and the School of Nursing and Midwifery, the BSc (Hons) Professional Development in Nursing will build on your current experience and skills enabling you to earn a degree part time in up to five years. You will also gain the confidence and expertise to enhance your professional nursing practice and move your career forward.

Key features

• Focus on professional issues and development in your own field of practice, on a course that acknowledges the diversity in the work settings of registered nurses and provides educational opportunities for adult, child, learning disability and mental health nurses.

• Undertake a course developed alongside contemporary concerns about nursing which focuses on compassion, fundamental care skills and recognition of the standards of care and practice to ensure patients receive the highest level of care.

• Examine your own practice area, reflect on your own practice and have the chance to discuss and network with your peers, helping you to build professional networks and support whilst undertaking further study.

• Build your own self-esteem, motivation for learning and clinical decision-making skills and have the chance to improve your professional practice through critical analysis.



• Flexibly designed course allows you to complete your studies in as little as a year or with the option to ’step on/off’ over a five-year period in response to service need and professional circumstances.

Discover more: www.plymouth.ac.uk/pg/6173 Talk to the programme lead, Jacky Griffith: [email protected]




Urgent and Emergency Care | BSc (Hons)/BSc & GradDip/GradCertDesigned around the person who requires the health intervention and not the place where this is delivered, this course is for clinicians practising in a range of locations including emergency departments, community settings, minor injury units, general practice and acute and specialist services.

Key features

• Focus on the provision of urgent and emergency care across the lifespan, from the young child to the older adult, in both urban and rural locations.

• Developed through collaboration with practitioners to ensure is responsive to workforce development needs.• Develop specialist and transferable competences within an e-portfolio.• Learn with and from other healthcare professionals and medical students.• Modular design that can be studied full time or part time with the option to complete the award within five years.• Opportunity to accreditation of prior (experiential) learning (AP(E)L) to a maximum of 60 credits (must be subject

related).• Flexibly designed course enabling you to ’step on/off’ over a five-year period in response to service need and



Urgent and Emergency Care (Intercalated) | BSc (Hons)Please note that this course is only available to medical students who have successfully completed or anticipate successful completion of the fourth year of their primary medical degree.

Experience an academic year working in emergency care and gain an intercalated degree at the same time with the BSc (Hons) Urgent and Emergency Care. Learn skills that will enable you to work flexibly as a healthcare professional across traditional boundaries to meet the needs of the healthcare community, whilst developing as a competent and adaptive practitioner, with specialist and transferable skills.

You will explore opportunities to set up placements within your locality helping you with cost of living and development of important relationships in settings where you may like to work in the future. You’ll experience working in genuinely challenging clinical environments. You will also get prepare to lead teams in the future with a specific module on management and leadership, and practise skills that will be essential as you progress to becoming a consultant.

Key features

• Study with the only university to offer an intercalated degree in emergency care in the UK.• Explore opportunities to set up placements within your locality helping you with cost of living and development

of important relationships in settings where you may like to work in the future.• Experience working in genuinely challenging clinical environments; real-life experiences mean meaningful

education.• Get to grips with working and studying with a multi-professional team and all the insight that brings.• Prepare to lead teams in the future with a specific module on management and leadership.• Gain practice skills that will be essential as you progress to becoming a consultant.• Deepen your research and audit knowledge, helping you to decide (with your emergency department mentor)

what area of emergency care you will develop an audit in.• Choose from a range of optional modules including paediatrics and mental health.





The short courses are designed to support healthcare professionals in developing their practice for the benefit of patients. They are also intended to underpin career development and support workforce-wide learning enabling those engaged in professional education to disseminate their learning to colleagues.

Our short courses can be studied as standalone courses or towards Plymouth University undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. For detailed information about our short courses, please visit our website www.plymouth.ac.uk/hhs-pd.


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SHORT COURSES

NURSING AND MIDWIFERYAdvancing Practice | Short courseAdvanced practice is more than a set of skills. Are you ready to extend your practice? Do you want to move your career forward? Are you ready for a challenge?

Key features

• Understand and implement the values and principles of advanced practice.• Study alongside healthcare professionals from different disciplines to encourage co-operation and an

understanding of how the patient experience is improved with integrated working.• Develop your knowledge of the theories that inform clinical consultations with patients, carers and peers.• Apply current research and evidence in your practice incorporating professional, legal and ethical dimensions.• Develop your clinical management planning skills to promote high-quality safe patient-focused care in clinical

practice.• Choose to study at degree or masters level.

Foundations in Community and Primary Care | Short courseAre you new to working in the community or primary care setting? Do you want to develop practitioner knowledge and skills within this environment? Our specialist course has been designed to prepare and support professionals moving from the hospital environment to a community one.

Key features

• Develop your knowledge of partnership and integrated working to provide safe, high-quality and personalised care.

• Gain an understanding of the underpinning principles of clinical assessment and examination to inform safe and effective clinical decision-making and problem solving.

• Be equipped to formulate and implement management plans that accurately meet patient needs.• Develop the core clinical competences required to fulfil the role of the General Practice Nurse as defined by the

Royal College of General Practitioners Nursing standards.• Choose to study at degree or masters level.

Award of Certificate of Professional Development (CPD) in Health Care Support (General Practice) | Short courseAre you a healthcare assistant new to working within general practice? Develop the knowledge and skills to deliver high-quality patient centred care.

Key features

• Benefit from the only course specifically designed for healthcare assistants new to working within the general practice setting.

• Meet national industry standards for your profession as set by the Department of Health (Skills for Health and Skills for Care, 2013).

• Offered at Level 4.



We offer an extensive portfolio of modules at undergraduate and postgraduate level for you and your organisation, which aim to develop new skills or refresh existing knowledge.

Our modules are self-contained units of teaching, learning and assessment that can be studied individually for interest or professional development, or you can accumulate credit towards a qualification.

Many of our modules also meet professional body standards such as the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) as well as local workforce development needs.

For detailed information about our modules, please visit our website www.plymouth.ac.uk/hhs-pd.

Modules by subject area

Acute and critical care

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Advancing clinical practice

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Children and young people

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Community and primary care

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End of life care

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Leadership and management

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Long-term conditions and complex needs

Page 76

Maternity, newborn and midwifery

Page 80

Mental health and learning disability

Page 82

Mentorship and preceptorship

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Prescribing

Page 90

Public health, sexual health and environmental health

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Rehabilitation

Page 96

Research in practice

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Return to practice

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Social work

Page 106



MODULES – BY SUBJECT AREA

Advanced clinical reasoning for the critical care patient Draw upon clinical decision-making theory to make reasoned, safe and ethical clinical decisions.

Propose and justify assessment and management plans for a wide variety of critically ill or injured patients.

Module codeADV732

Level7

Credit20

Module leadKirstie Brown

LocationPlymouth

Semester1

Advanced concepts in critical careGain advanced specialist knowledge, skills and attitudes that underpin expert clinical practice in critical care settings.

You will explore and appraise the evidence base for critical care and innovate with a service improvement project.

Module codeHEAD328P

Level6

Credit20

Module leadPeter Branfield

LocationPlymouth Hospitals NHS Trust

SemesterPlease contact our delivering partner for further details

Applied physiology in critical illnessGain knowledge of anatomy and pathophysiology for critical illness in adults.

You will learn about:

• the impact of pathophysiology and understand altered physiology

• the consequences of acute and critical illness on homeostasis

• altered physiology to understand key treatments

• clinical symptoms of critical illness.

Module codeHEAD327P

Level6

Credit20






ACUTE AND CRITICAL CARE

Assessment, management and escalation of the acutely ill adultBecome competent in assessing, planning, implementing, evaluating and escalating care of the acutely ill adult.

You’ll learn to identify abnormal physiology through interpretation of clinical signs associated with patient deterioration, and work collaboratively with the patient, patient’s family and multi-professional team.

Module codeHEAD346 / APP737

Level6 & 7

Credit40

Module leadLevel 6: Elaine Leach (Northern Devon) / Amanda Thompson (Royal Cornwall Hospitals) / Helen Baker (Royal Devon and Exeter) / Mano Keshishian (Torbay and South Devon)

Level 7: Caroline Jamison

LocationNorthern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust / Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust / Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust / Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust / Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust


Children's cardiac nursing care and managementFurther develop your skills in assessing children with cardiac abnormalities, to recognise the signs of clinical deterioration and instigate appropriate interventions.

You’ll expand your ability to manage the care and support for the child and family, from diagnosis through to transfer to adult services or end of life care.

Module codeHEAD335

Level6

Credit20

Module leadSandra Batcheler

LocationBristol Royal Hospital for Children





Children's cardiac nursing foundation and high dependency careGain the practical skills and knowledge of paediatric cardiac high dependency care.

Confidently assess children with cardiac abnormalities and implement appropriate family-centred, evidence-based holistic care.

Module codeHEAD334

Level6

Credit20




Core concepts in critical careGain the core knowledge, skill and attitude to deliver competent, clinically effective evidence-based practice in critical care settings.

You will learn about evidence base best practice and enhance your clinical competence.

Module codeHEAD329P

Level6

Credit20




Critical care management – airway, breathing, circulationGain the practical skills needed for airway, respiratory and cardiovascular assessment, and interventions for the acutely ill or injured patient.

You will analyse the pharmacology of the key drugs/agents used in the critical care management of airway, breathing and circulatory emergencies and evaluate their effectiveness.

Module codeADV729

Level7

Credit20

Module leadMatthew Griggs

LocationPlymouth

Semester1




Critical care management – neurological, environmental and special patient groupsGain the practical skills needed for assessment and interventions of patients from birth to the older adult lifespan, in neurological and environmental emergencies, and special patient group.

You will enhance your understanding and application of physical assessment, physiology, pathophysiology and general examination.

Module codeADV730

Level7

Credit20

Module leadHelen Nicholson

LocationPlymouth

Semester2

Developing expertise in clinical practiceDevelop your skills in health assessment, clinical examination and clinical reasoning.

You’ll learn to examine the theory specific to your patient’s health needs and differentiate minor illness and injury from serious illness and major injury.

Module codeUEC605 / APP730

Level6 & 7

Credit20

Module leadSally Wenman

LocationPlymouth

Semester1

Developing professional practice in critical careDevelop your professional practice with regard to history taking, clinical examination, diagnostics, decision-making and clinical management plans in critical care.

You will learn about anatomy and pathophysiology applied to critical illness, and the psychosocial aspects of caring for the critically ill patient and their families.

Module codeUEC609

Level6

Credit20

Module leadRachel Pascoe

LocationPlymouth

SemesterTo be confirmed




Enhanced acute medical care for older adultsDevelop the skills and knowledge to assess, plan, and evaluate care and service delivery for older adults with acute medical and complex needs.

Learn strategies to improve service delivery and provide effective high-quality care.

Module codeHEAB239 / HEAC350

Level5 & 6

Credit20

Module leadLouise Stevens

LocationTorbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust


Enhanced knowledge and skills in children’s high dependency careYou’ll learn to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions for children with high dependency needs, initiating and interpreting observations and investigations with reference to anatomical and physiological disturbance.

You’ll also be able to support and empower sick children and their families through advising, counselling and psychological support.

Module codeHEAC391 / APP723

Level6 & 7

Credit20

Module leadRebekah Overend



Enhanced practice in minor injuries care interventionsYou will learn to develop clinical management plans for less commonly presenting minor injuries and a range of minor illnesses.

You will develop examination skills for unwell paediatric patients, paediatric BLS, chest conditions, ENT, emergency contraception, women’s health, dermatology, common minor illness and mental health issues.

Module codeNURC316

Level6

Credit20

Module leadDee Hore

LocationCornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust





Evidencing professional development in urgent and emergency care (via e-portfolio)You will become competent in the holistic assessment and management of patients, and deliver high-quality person-centred care working as part of an urgent and emergency care team.

A range of evidence supporting your development will be collated in an electronic portfolio, which also makes up your coursework assessment.

Module codeUEC608

Level6

Credit20

Module leadPam Nelmes

LocationPlymouth


Haemato-oncologyAimed at registered nurses and allied health professionals with at least six months’ speciality experience.

You will develop your knowledge and clinical competencies in haemato-oncology healthcare practice.

The topics covered include non-malignant haematology, infection control issues, acute and chronic leukaemia patient pathways, lymphoma and myeloma patient pathways, autograft and allograft patient pathways, and palliative care within the haematological setting.

Module codeHEAC340

Level6

Credit20

Module leadClare Fox

LocationRoyal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust


Introduction to children's cardiac nursingDevelop your knowledge of normal and altered cardiac anatomy and physiology.

You’ll learn about the anatomy and physiology of the cardiovascular system and the pathophysiology of congenital and acquired heart disease.

Module codeHEAD333

Level6

Credit20







Introductory course for trainers in moving and handling of loadsGain knowledge and skills about moving and handling, and risk assessment to ensure a safe environment for patients, carers and healthcare workers.

You will learn to implement patient care informed by the principles of ergonomics, biomechanics and safe manual handling.

You’ll also learn to evaluate and implement risk management strategies to reduce the risk of injury associated with manual handling.

Module codeNURB294 / NURC306

Level6

Credit20

Module leadLesley Wonnacott

LocationNorthern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust


Management of infection preventionGain comprehensive infection prevention and control knowledge.

Utilise critical thinking to implement evidence-based practice and manage complex and unpredictable situations relating to infection prevention and control to ensure a safe environment for your clients and colleagues.


Level5 & 6

Credit20

Module leadFiona Baker (Northern Devon) / Louise Dickinson (Royal Cornwall) / Sharon Hilton (Taunton and Somerset)

LocationPlymouth Hospitals NHS Trust / Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust


Maternal critical careDevelop an in-depth knowledge and understanding of maternal critical care in the obstetric unit setting.

You’ll learn about:

• pharmacology related to maternal critical care

• pregnancy related conditions: major obstetric haemorrhage, eclampsia/HELLP syndrome and puerperal sepsis

• rapid response systems and failure to rescue.

Module codeAPP722

Level7

Credit20

Module leadAlison James

LocationPlymouth

Semester1




Minor injuries skills and practice interventionsGain the knowledge and skills for the management of commonly presenting minor injuries.

You will learn about pain assessment and control; basic pharmacology; wound assessment and closure; plastering; tetanus prevention; BLS and defibrillation; principles of radiology; ophthalmology; and assessment and management of acute asthma, soft tissue and bony injuries, minor burns, head and neck injuries, and hand injuries.

Module codeNURC315

Level6

Credit20

Module leadCherida Matthews (Northern Devon) / Dee Hore (Cornwall Partnership)



Paediatric critical care 1: essentials of care and interventionsLearn to conduct a comprehensive assessment of the physical condition of a L1-2 paediatric intensive care patient with reference to underlying anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology, justifying and documenting your findings and subsequent actions accurately.

You’ll also enhance your ability to provide evidence base, holistic, and family centre care.


Level6 & 7

Credit20

Module leadAnna Chick



Paediatric critical care 2: foundations of care and interventionsEnhance your knowledge and skills of assessing, planning and implementing evidence base, safe, holistic, ethically sound and family-centred care for children and young people requiring L1-2 critical care.

You’ll learn about anatomy and physiology of the major organ systems; principles of respiratory, renal and cardiovascular support; psychological needs; systematic assessment; and ethical and legal issues.


Level6 & 7

Credit20

Module leadAnna Chick








Paediatric critical care 2: foundations of care and interventions for general ITU staffGain the knowledge and skills to provide L1-2 paediatric care.


• anatomy and physiology of the major organ systems

• systematic assessment

• principles of respiratory, renal and cardiovascular support

• psychological needs of the child and family when faced with critical illness

• ethical and legal issues.

Module codeHEAD332

Level6

Credit20

Module leadBeverley Cejer



Paediatric critical care 3: enhanced care and interventionsDevelop the knowledge and skills in advanced elements of L3-4 paediatric critical care.


• the physiology of multi-organ dysfunction syndrome and other complex systemic disorders

• interventions such as high frequency oscillatory ventilation, nitric oxide therapy and renal replacement therapy

• supporting the child/young person and family when death is inevitable.


Level6 & 7

Credit20

Module leadBeverley Cejer / Anna Chick



Principles and practice of cardiothoracic surgical careProvide safe and effective care of the cardiothoracic patient requiring investigation and interventions.

You will:

• learn about cardiothoracic anatomy and physiology

• find out the aetiology of the disease process with identification of risk factors and preoperative interventions

• discover the multidisciplinary team approach in caring for a cardiothoracic patient

• gain an insight into cardiothoracic surgery.

Module codeHEAD348

Level6

Credit40

Module leadRachel Allen




Retrieval and transfer of a critical care patient in special situationsPlan and complete specialist retrieval and transfers of critically ill and injured patients, including specialist transfers (for example, contagious diseases) and extraordinary situations within environmental medicine and disaster management.

Learn to exhibit model leadership and communication skills when performing in routine as well as challenging or difficult situations involving critical care.

Module codeADV733

Level7

Credit20

Module leadPeter Allum

LocationPlymouth

Semester1

Specialist approaches to patient management in critical careGain the knowledge and skills base to effectively and systematically assess and manage critically ill adults in an intensive care environment, particularly those with respiratory, cardiac and renal needs.

Module codeHEAC375

Level6

Credit40

Module leadJulie Purday









Specialist cancer careBecome competent at assessing, delivering and evaluating the specialised treatment and care required by people with cancer and their carers in both general and specialist settings.

You will link evidence-based theory to current clinical practice and develop the underpinning knowledge required to provide strategies in order to improve service delivery and give effective high-quality care.

Module codeHEAD359

Level6

Credit20

Module leadSian Dennison



Urgent, emergency and critical care: leadership and innovationLead and manage quality improvement and innovation.

You will apply a systematic approach to identify and define complex problems, evaluating factors influencing innovation and service improvement.

You’ll develop the personal qualities required to work with others and manage finite resources.

Module codeUEC607

Level6

Credit20

Module leadPam Nelmes

LocationPlymouth

Semester2

Advanced assessment for clinical practiceBecome competent in undertaking systematic and structured history taking assessments and physical examinations for clinical decision-making and differential diagnosis.

You’ll learn to undertake clinical examinations of the cardio-vascular system and the peripheral vascular system, the muscular-skeletal system, the nervous system, the respiratory system and the gastro-intestinal system.

Module codeAPP710

Level7

Credit20

Module leadCatherine McDougall

LocationPlymouth

Semester1

Advancing practice in contextDevelop an understanding of the issues that impact on service delivery including the working environment, the complexities of your practice, and the legal and ethical boundaries to provide high-quality patient-centred care.

You’ll learn about evidence-based practice, risk management, safeguarding, inter-professional and partnership working, decision-making, and health informatics.

Module codeAPP701

Level7

Credit20


LocationPlymouth

Semester1 & 2

Clinical decision-making in healthcare practiceDevelop your accountability and decision-making skills for enhanced patient safety.

You’ll learn about clinical decision-making theory; reflexivity and reflexive deliberations theory; psychodynamic theory and transactional analysis; professional, legal and ethical decision-making; and human factors and error wisdom in decision-making.

Module codeHEAD362

Level6

Credit20

Module leadBenny Goodman

LocationPlymouth







Developing professional competence for non-graduate healthcare professionals ('bridging module')For experienced healthcare professionals who have not previously studied at degree level or who have not studied for some time, to prepare you to study at masters level.

You will:

• learn to critically analyse the effectiveness of your practice using reflection

• build on your ability to apply professional values to complex situations within organisational constraints.

Module codeADV603

Level6

Credit10

Module leadPeter Allum

LocationPlymouth


Effective promotion of continence and management of incontinenceDevelop clinical competence in the assessment of bladder and bowel dysfunction.

Learn about the therapeutic care available for patients with lower urinary tract and bowel symptoms.

You will gain understanding of the causes of incontinence, applying knowledge of physical, pathological and psychosocial aspects when assessing a client.

Module codeHEAC348

Level6

Credit40

Module leadSharon Eustice



Facilitating collaborative patient management and flow Evaluate the complexities associated with patient flow and develop creative solutions to local challenges.


• national and international policies and models of patient flow and how they may influence current practice

• the decision-making processes involved in triage, referral, liaison and discharge

• the impact of organisational and professional cultures on the experience of the patient journey throughout the health and social care systems.

Module codeADV609 / ADV763

Level6 & 7

Credit20

Module leadJenny Child

LocationPlymouth

Semester2

ADVANCING CLINICAL PRACTICE

Gastro-intestinal endoscopy and related procedures for nurses (specialist skills)Gain the knowledge and skills required to provide care for the person undergoing diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy and interventions in the gastro-intestinal tract.

You will learn about current practice in oesophagogastro duodenoscopy, endoscopic retrograde pancreatography and colonscopy; anatomy and pathophysiology of the gastro-intestinal tract; and pharmokinetics.

Module codeNURB280 / NURB363

Level5 & 6

Credit20

Module leadJo Billyard / Sam Garner



Injection therapy for health professionals (corticosteroid)Provide appropriate advanced assessment, intervention and review of care, involving the administration of medicines via injections.

You’ll explore the evidence base and clinical guidelines for your individual work area.

The module is delivered in practice – as a partnership between Plymouth University and Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust – by clinical specialist.

Module codeADV709

Level7

Credit20

Module leadVasileios Lepesis

LocationTorbay

Semester2

Integrated advancing practice in contextDevelop your understanding of advancing practice within your working environment and explore the complexities of your practice.

You’ll become confident and competent in the provision of high-quality, patient-centred care whilst applying current research/evidence to practice incorporating relevant professional, legal and ethical dimensions.

Module codeHEAD366

Level6

Credit20


LocationPlymouth

Semester1






International perspectives and practice requirements for health and social care practitionersAre you considering working overseas? On this module, you will explore your profession in a country or context of your choice.

You will debate the roles of policy, legislation and international organisations, such as the World Health Organization, in shaping the health of populations.

You’ll gain an understanding of the key drivers in research from a global health perspective.

Module codeADV759

Level7

Credit20

Module leadAlison Warren

LocationDistance learning

Semester1

Managing clinical complexityGain the skills to make sound judgements in the absence of complete data across a range of disease processes and conditions.

You’ll display competence, autonomy and professional accountability when undertaking comprehensive health assessments to develop appropriate differential diagnosis, and be able to justify your actions in relation to relevant anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology.

Module codeAPP711

Level7

Credit20


LocationPlymouth

Semester1

Minor skin surgery practiceGain the knowledge and skills to assess, plan and implement care of a patient with a dermatological condition requiring skin surgery.

You will learn:

• what facilities and equipment is required for outpatient skin surgery

• how to assess the patient pre-operatively and how to plan the practical aspects of skin surgical treatment

• how to care and advise the patient in the immediate post-operative phase.

Module codeHEAC381

Level6

Credit20

Module leadClare Parkinson






Occupation as a focus of contemporary practiceYou will cover topics such as occupational science; development and future applications; health, wellness and occupation; the impact of culture on occupation; current and emerging models of practice; and the use of occupation in practice contexts.

Module codeADV703

Level7

Credit20

Module leadTanja Krizaj

LocationPlymouth

Semester1

Practice-based learningDevelop a proposal for a project in your workplace that focus on maintaining or improving practice, or preventing poor practice, and which includes the patient and user experience.

Module codeHEAD364

Level6

Credit20

Module leadJacky Griffith

LocationPlymouth


Stoma careDevelop the knowledge and practical skills to care for individuals who have stomas. You will learn to apply a systematic, informed and effective approach to the care and management of these patients.

Module codeHEAD340

Level6

Credit20








Supported independent studyChoose to study an area of interest in depth, reflect on your learning and use this learning to enhance your own professional practice.

The module titles are:

• ADV712 – Supported independent study

• ADV749 – Dietetic practice: supported study

• ADV750 – Occupational therapy practice: supported study

• ADV751 – Physiotherapy practice: supported study

• ADV752 – Social work practice: supported study

Module codeADV712 / ADV749 / ADV750 / ADV751 / ADV752

Level7

Credit20

Module leadEmma Cowley


Semester1 & 2

The ageing person: society, body and mindExplore how the body and mind changes through the ageing process.

You’ll gain understanding of normal ageing and the changes that this brings for the older person socially, mentally and physically.

Module codeADV765

Level7

Credit20


LocationPlymouth

Semester2

The fundamentals of health assessmentFurther develop your skills in health assessment, clinical examination and clinical reasoning.

You’ll develop the skills to receive a history and analyse the findings in relation to the patient’s clinical presentation, taking into consideration the potential for psycho-social factors that will influence their healthcare needs.


Level6 & 7

Credit20


LocationPlymouth

Semester2



Tissue viability: core knowledge for practiceLearn to systematically assess patients and their skin and wounds. Compare normal anatomy and physiology of skin and wound healing with pathophysiology in skin and tissue repair.

You will examine the role that skin and wound management products can play alongside education to improve patient outcomes as part of a robust management strategy.

Module codeHEAD339

Level6

Credit20

Module leadMike Ellis

LocationPlymouth Hospitals NHS Trust / Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust / Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust



Clinical dietetics for infants and childrenExplore the nutritional and dietetic interventions essential for normal growth and development in both chronic and acute paediatric illness. You will consider the nutritional management of conditions like epilepsy, neonatal surgery, burns and trauma and organ system diseases.

You will examine current clinical practices, their contribution to the multidisciplinary team and other strategies required to support patients and their families.

Module codeADV743

Level7

Credit20

Module leadAnne Payne

LocationLondon

Semester1

Dietetic management of inherited metabolic disordersExplore the biochemical, pathophysiological and genetic bases of inherited metabolic disorders, and appraise the dietary therapies needed to correct them to ensure the long-term safety and optimal growth of infants, children, adolescents and individuals approaching adulthood starting their own families.

You will gain the skills to:

• evaluate emergency dietary treatments

• examine the interaction between dietary management and drug treatment

• investigate novel treatments.

Module codeADV720

Level7

Credit20


LocationBirmingham

Semester1




CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Neonatal nutritionExplore the nutritional and dietetic management of preterm and sick infants in the neonatal period and beyond to optimise growth, development, and minimise post-natal growth restriction.

You will examine clinical practices to develop parental and enteral feeding strategies to meet the complex needs of sick term and preterm infants during their neonatal care and during the growing phase prior to and post discharge.

Module codeADV744

Level7

Credit20


LocationBirmingham

Semester1

Nursing the critically ill child in a general intensive care unitAn introduction to aspects of paediatric critical care for experienced adult intensive care nurses.

You will learn to:

• recognise a seriously ill child, assess the child’s immediate condition and respond appropriately in emergency and rapidly changing situations

• contribute to planning, implementation and evaluation of care for the critically ill child and his/her family by utilising evidenced-based practice.

Module codeHEAC358

Level6

Credit20

Module leadLouise Knapman



Nutrition and dietetics in common paediatric disordersLearn the impact that nutrition and dietetics can have in managing paediatric disorders to ensure normal growth and development.

You will examine clinical practices, nutrigenomics and strategies required to support families and other healthcare practitioners in managing conditions such as preterm infants, children and adolescents with diabetes, cystic fibrosis, faltering growth, allergy and gastrointestinal problems.

Module codeADV742

Level7

Credit20


LocationLondon / Glasgow

Semester2



Nutrition and dietetics in infancy and childhoodUnderstand the advice given to families, healthcare professionals and policy groups regarding normal infant, child and adolescent nutrition and feeding.

You will explore:

• the evidence base underpinning nutritional requirements and feeding recommendations

• the influence of lifestyle, culture and socioeconomic status on feeding.

Module codeADV741

Level7

Credit20


LocationLondon

Semester2

Participation for children and young people Explore the nature and concept of participation in relation to working with children and young people by reviewing current working practices, nationally and internationally.

Gain an understanding of current trends within practice and/or research and how they shape service delivery for children and young people.

You’ll develop your analytical skills in relation to interventions and outcome measures used in children’s services and how they facilitate or inhibit participation.

Module codeADV760

Level7

Credit20

Module leadSusan Mitchell

LocationPlymouth

Semester1

The child or young person requiring urgent or emergency careDevelop the skills to recognise, assess and manage the care of children presenting a range of minor health problems and injuries.

You’ll learn about prioritisation of children’s health needs, child development and relevant pathophysiology, psychosocial needs of children including reactions to trauma and illness, common childhood illness requiring ongoing care, and ethical and legal issues in the care of children.


Level6 & 7

Credit20

Module leadSally Wenman

LocationPlymouth

Semester2






CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Advancing the care and support of the person with dementia and their carerDevelop knowledge and strategies to provide an effective evidence-based care of the person with dementia and their carer.


• anatomy and physiology of the brain, and changes that occur and how they affect the person

• mental health related pharmacology

• ethical/moral/cultural /legal and psychological aspects of care


Level6 & 7

Credit20

Module leadLevel 6: Sue Ives (Plymouth Hospitals) / Clare Swettenham (Royal Cornwall Hospitals) / Stephanie Janka-Spurlock (Torbay and South Devon)

Level 7: Francis Thompson (Plymouth University)

LocationDevon Partnership NHS Trust / Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust / Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust / Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust


Clinical skills in community and primary careGain the core clinical competences required to fulfil the role of the General Practice Nurse as defined by the Royal College of General Practitioners nursing standards, and in alignment with Department of Health and Health Education England initiatives.


Level6 & 7

Credit20

Module leadFiona Cook

LocationPlymouth

Semester2






COMMUNITY AND PRIMARY CARE

Effective communication within complex community settingsDevelop advanced communication and clinical risk assessment skills when working with people in complex community settings. This will cover skills in recognising care risks and complex communication within multi-professional teams, patients and their carers.

To achieve this, you will critically apply reflective and problem solving approaches towards the safe delivery of effective and informed care in complex community settings and effective communication of your findings.

Module codeHEAD302

Level6

Credit20

Module leadJane Watson



Family planning and women's health in primary careGain the knowledge and skill to deliver contraceptive services and manage fertility within the community setting.

You will be able to assist clients in choice of appropriate contraception and demonstrate self-awareness and sensitivity towards sexuality and sexual behaviour, personal health beliefs and cultural aspects which may influence care of the client.

Module codeHEAD306

Level6

Credit20


LocationExeter


Integrated community and primary care in contextDelivered by expert multi professionals, including visiting lecturers currently working in health and social care, drawing upon their different perspectives and wide knowledge and experience of community/primary care to include:

• partnership and integrated working

• managing complexity

• public health and social care perspectives

• risk assessment and safeguarding.


Level6 & 7

Credit20

Module leadKim Greening

LocationPlymouth

Semester1




Integrated community and primary care practiceDevelop the knowledge and practice skills to work in community and primary care settings.


• holistic assessment

• scope for telehealth/telecare

• personalised care

• reflective practice.


Level6 & 7

Credit20


LocationPlymouth

Semester2

Minor illness and minor injuries for health professionals who are providing first contact careAssess and treat minor illness and injury in primary care settings such as general practice, schools and HM Prison.

You will develop your consultation and diagnosis skills, and implement evidence-based treatments. You’ll also become confident to operate in complex situations that require prompt referral.

Module codeHEAD371

Level6

Credit20


LocationPlymouth

Semester1



COMMUNITY AND PRIMARY CARE

Enhancing end of life care and palliative care practiceEnables you to develop a critical and reflective approach to caring for those living and dying with a life-limiting condition, promoting quality, dignity and choice in end of life care and palliative care services.

You will learn how service provision may be altered/enhanced to benefit patient experience.


Level6 & 7

Credit20

Module leadLevel 6: Gail Wilson (St Luke's Hospice) / Sarah Gear (Cornwall Hospice Care) / Sam Ritzen (North Devon Hospice)

Level 7: Jacky Griffith (Plymouth University)

LocationCornwall Hospice Care / North Devon Hospice / St Luke's Hospice Plymouth


Facilitating patient centred care and choice through advanced communication skillsGain practical communication skills to engage patients in difficult conversations, and to facilitate advance care planning for those at end of life or with complex long-term conditions who need to discuss future care options.

You will utilise a range of communication strategies and consider the legal and ethical issues when promoting patient choice through advance care planning.

Module codeHEAD354

Level6

Credit20

Module leadGail Wilson

LocationSt Luke's Hospice Plymouth

Semester2




Supporting people in loss, grief and bereavement – enhanced practiceYou will utilise higher levels of enquiry including critical appraisal, synthesis and reflection to support people who are facing or experiencing loss, grief and bereavement.

You will learn to create a safe and supported environment for your clients.

Module codeHEAB251 / HEAD304

Level5 & 6

Credit20

Module leadHilary McKegney

LocationSt Margaret's Hospice Somerset


Supporting the needs of the frail older personGain a deep and critical understanding of the impact of ageing on an individual’s health and wellbeing, both physically and psychologically.

Using evidence-based theories around frailty, co-morbidity, polypharmacy and the ageing process you will develop advanced assessment, evaluation and management skills to be applied in a person-centred framework in your practice.


Level6 & 7

Credit20


LocationPlymouth / Exeter

Semester1 & 2



END OF LIFE CARE

Effective clinical leadership in complex community environmentsDevelop effective team leadership to enhance clinical decision-making and case management when working with people in complex community environments.

This calls for a skills set which flexes to the complex needs of people being cared for at home. To achieve this, you will develop enhanced and effective leadership in respect of critical, reflective and problem solving approaches towards the safe delivery of community practice.

Module codeHEAD301

Level6

Credit40

Module leadJane Watson



Ethical and legal issues with healthcare practiceGain the skills to undertake critical decisions within your professional practice.


• systems of regulation and the role of professional bodies

• negligence in healthcare practice

• the impact of legislation, ethics and accountability on practice.


Level6 & 7

Credit20

Module leadAndy Nichols

LocationPlymouth

Semester2

Introduction to the practice and principles of managing individuals and teams within general practiceReflect on your current use of people management knowledge, competencies and skills. Through discussion, face-to-face teaching, personal questionnaires, case studies and role play, you will be able to review your current level of skills, your capabilities and identify areas for your own personal and professional development.

Module codeHEAD372

Level6

Credit20


LocationExeter





Leadership and innovationDevelop the personal qualities required to work with and lead others while encouraging collaborative working.

You’ll also explore theories of organisational culture, leadership and change, and their influence as 'enablers' to service improvement, quality, governance and the service user experience.


Level6 & 7

Credit20


LocationPlymouth

Semester1 & 2

Leading professionals, managing aspirations for self and others Gain the knowledge and skills to help yourself and others to reach their full potential for both individual and organisational advancement.

You’ll appraise leadership approaches; analyse the complexities in people management and leadership structures; and reflect on personal and peer responsibilities in the management of learning and development and how these contribute to the progression of an organisation.


Level6 & 7

Credit20


LocationPlymouth

Semester1

Management and leadership of people and teams in healthcareEffectively manage a workforce team aligning performance to local organisational requirements in accordance with human resources legislative frameworks and strategic objectives of the organisation.


Level5 & 6

Credit20

Module leadHelen Catherall (Plymouth) / Elaine Milis

LocationPlymouth Hospitals NHS Trust / Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust




LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT

The supervision of clinical practice – application of enhanced theory and skillsLearn to evaluate and demonstrate a range of supervisory skills, linking and applying the theory of supervision to its practice using both formative and summative approaches.

You will learn the value of a range of different models of supervision to suit a variety of clinical settings.

Module codeHEA302

Level6

Credit20

Module leadLizzie Ryan

LocationSouth Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust







LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT

Advancing practice in long-term conditions managementEffectively manage a range of long-term conditions by systematically applying the principles of clinical assessment of patients, including the ability to take a thorough history and carry out a physical examination of the cardiovascular, respiratory, gastro-intestinal, and neurological systems, identifying abnormalities and offering a rationale for your actions.

You’ll develop your skills in case management and its application to patients with multiple complex needs.

Module codeHEAB358

Level6

Credit40

Module leadHelen Lyndon



Advancing the management of long-term conditionsUnderstand issues affecting the quality of care for people with long-term conditions i.e. person-centred care, self-management and service development.

You will learn to:

• enhance person-centred care during routine practice

• facilitate individuals with long-term conditions to maximise their own health and wellbeing through effective self-management

• develop services to support individuals with long-term conditions in line with health and social care policy.


Level6 & 7

Credit20


LocationPlymouth

Semester1

Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease – management in primary careDevelop the knowledge and skills to support and manage patients with long-term respiratory conditions.

You’ll be trained to national standards in performing the skill of spirometry.

You will be able to identify pathological changes characteristic of asthma and COPD and implement evidence-based treatment options working in partnership with patients to promote self-management.

Module codeHEAD368

Level6

Credit20


LocationExeter





Cardiovascular disease and stroke management in primary careDevelop your knowledge and skills in managing patients with long-term cardiovascular conditions.

You will able to identify risk factors and implement prevention strategies, and plan a holistic care package and liaison with the wider healthcare team.

Module codeHEAD369

Level6

Credit20


LocationExeter


Diabetes mellitusDevelop your knowledge of diabetes mellitus and pre-diabetes.


• insulin resistance and types of diabetes

• epidemiology of pre-diabetes and diabetes conditions

• pathophysiology of the disease process

• screening and diagnosis

• lifestyle changes and other treatments.

Module codeHEAD376

Level6

Credit20

Module leadAlexander Nesbitt

LocationPlymouth


Enhanced care of the patient requiring systemic anti-cancer therapy (SACT)Gain a comprehensive understanding of the range and complexity of influencing factors in the delivery of care to patients requiring chemotherapy.

You will develop the knowledge and expertise to safely delivery clinically effective, evidence based care working within a multi-disciplinary team.

You’ll be able to empower patients to make informed choices about their SACT treatment options.

Module codeNURB292 / HEAD358

Level5 & 6

Credit20

Module leadJenny Daly





LONG-TERM CONDITIONS AND COMPLEX NEEDS

Enhanced Parkinson’s disease managementBecome competent in assessing, planning, delivering, evaluating and leading the care of people with Parkinson’s disease as well as giving support and advice to their carers.

With subject-specific knowledge and skill, you will be able to promote high-quality care within the clinical setting through dissemination of evidence-based information.

Module codeHEAB366

Level6

Credit40

Module leadLynne Osbourne



Enhanced principles and practice of renal nursingLearn to identify, implement and evaluate the appropriate care for patients requiring renal nursing.

You will learn:

• about the disease processes that can cause renal insufficiency/failure

• to identify, implement and evaluate care

• to work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team.


Level5 & 6

Credit40

Module leadAnca Ichim



Enhanced principles and practice of renal nursing (specialist skills)Provide specialist renal care and information to patients and their families in cases of renal disease, dialysis and transplantation.

You will learn about high dependency renal care; continuous renal replacement therapies/therapeutic plasma exchange; short- and long-term complications associated with renal replacement therapies/transplantation; dialysis adequacy; and nutrition and pharmacology.


Level5 & 6

Credit40

Module leadAnca Ichim






Enhancing practice in chronic pulmonary conditionsDesign, deliver and evaluate management strategies for patients with chronic pulmonary disease.

Promote holistic interventions involving clients, carers, and health professionals.

Evaluate interventions (for example, self-efficacy, health promotion, pharmacological, education and exercise) to enhance clinical reasoning and decision-making.

Module codeADV740

Level7

Credit20

Module leadHeather Hunter

LocationPlymouth

Semester2

Principles of gastro-intestinal nursingYou will develop an in-depth knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of the gastrointestinal system in both health and disease.

You’ll be able to give appropriate and effective health education and lifestyle advice to patients with gastrointestinal disease and their carers.

Module codeHEAC372

Level6

Credit40




Recognition and reduction of risk to the lower limb in the patient with diabetesDevelop your understanding of the multisystem effect of diabetes on the lower limb. Gain the skills to evaluate therapies and interventions. Help patients manage modifiable risk factors associated with this condition.

Use your existing practice to embed theoretical knowledge and research and increase your clinical autonomy.

Module codeADV762

Level7

Credit20

Module leadMargaret Pope

LocationPlymouth

Semester2



LONG-TERM CONDITIONS AND COMPLEX NEEDS

Advanced newborn and infant examinationBecome proficient in the examination of the newborn and infant.

You’ll develop a deep understanding the complexities of anatomy, physiology and pathology of the newborn/infant and its adaptation to extra uterine life.


Level6 & 7

Credit40 / 20

Module leadRachel Stanyer

LocationPlymouth


Advanced newborn and infant examination (APL)Gain academic accreditation for your knowledge and skills in the examination of newborns and infants.

You’ll develop an in-depth knowledge of the complexities of anatomy, physiology and pathology of the newborn/infant and its adaptation to extra uterine life.


Level6 & 7

Credit40 / 20

Module leadRachel Stanyer

LocationPlymouth

Semester2

Contemporary issues in the care of the newbornYou will examine the key concepts of physiology, pathology, psychology and social issues that underpin the care and development of the newborn baby requiring additional care in the neonatal period.

Module codeHEAC396

Level6

Credit20

Module leadJess Groves






Holistic neonatal assessment and clinical managementPerform comprehensive health assessments through history taking, clinical examination, diagnosis and documentation, to develop initial treatment and management strategies.

You’ll learn to utilise anatomical, physiological and pathophysiological knowledge to facilitate the clinical decision-making process.

Module codeHEAD375 / ANNP701

Level6 & 7

Credit20

Module leadDiane Keeling / Louise Winfield



Intensive care for the neonateGain the skills and knowledge to provide high-quality intensive care to sick and pre-terms infants.

You will learn to:

• assess, plan, implement and evaluate specialist interventions

• support and empower families

• deliver holistic care which recognises ethical and legal issues.

Module codeHEAC397

Level6

Credit40

Module leadJess Groves



Perinatal mental healthDevelop the knowledge of perinatal mental health issues that affect childbearing women and their infants.

You’ll learn about mental health disorders during the perinatal period, the impact of these on the developing infant both before and after birth, and treatment options for women.


Level6 & 7

Credit20

Module leadHeather Hopper

LocationPlymouth

Semester1



MATERNITY, NEWBORN AND MIDWIFERY

Advanced psychosocial assessment and formulationLearn about concepts of mental health, diagnostic category systems and biopsychosocial, medical and psychological explanatory models of mental health.

You’ll effectively apply ‘common factors’ to engage patients, gather information, build effective therapeutic alliances with patients, manage the emotional content of sessions and adapt therapeutic approaches to the patient’s perspective or world view.


Level6 & 7

Credit20

Module leadJon Perry

LocationPlymouth

Semester1

Capable practice in mental healthcareDevelop enhanced knowledge and competence in therapeutic and safe working with people with complex mental health needs; this potentially includes people who might pose a risk to themselves or others.

You will gain the skills and knowledge to apply in improving practice and service standards.

Module codeHEAD330

Level6

Credit20

Module leadCleo Ellis

LocationDevon Partnership NHS Trust


CBT interventions for mental health professionals (mood disorders)Become competent in applying Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) for assessing and treating mood disorders with a focus on depression and anxiety.

You’ll also learn about contra-indications for treatment, the role of pharmacological interventions, dual diagnosis and co-morbidity.


Level6 & 7

Credit20


LocationPlymouth

Semester2




CBT interventions for mental health professionals (psychosis)Learn how Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) can be used to support people experiencing psychosis.

You’ll gain the skills to assess and treat psychotic type experiences.

You’ll also understand the importance of developing therapeutic relationships, and learn about contra-indications for treatment, pharmacological interventions and complex presentations such as dual diagnosis and co-morbidity.


Level6 & 7

Credit20


LocationPlymouth

Semester2

Foundation course in family therapyDevelop an understanding of the theory and practice of family therapy for clinical and non-clinical practice.

You will learn about family in context, changing nature of family life, media representations, values and norms, and family life cycle.

You will also reflect on your own personal family and cultural experiences on how these influence your practice.

Module codeHEAD356

Level6

Credit40

Module leadNigel Smith

LocationLivewell Southwest


Foundation course in solution focused therapyGain an understanding of theory and practice of Solution Focused Therapy (SFT) in healthcare provision and health enhancement in a wide variety of clinical and non-clinical settings.

Module codeHEAC312

Level6

Credit20






MENTAL HEALTH AND LEARNING DISABILITY

Foundation level cognitive behavioural therapy skills Gain foundation level competencies in assessing client difficulties and implementing Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) interventions for individuals experiencing a range of common mental health problems.

Module codeHEAC349

Level6

Credit20

Module leadShane Fitzgerald

LocationDevon Partnership NHS Trust


Intermediate course in family therapy and systemic practiceDevelop your practice of family therapy in the context both of its historical development and its current position in health and social care provision.

You will gain an understanding of systemic concepts and the relationship of these concepts with ideas and practice in other psychotherapies and healthcare/social interventions.

Module codeHEAB397

Level6

Credit40




Mental health assessment in urgent, emergency and acute careLearn about mental assessment and appropriate therapeutic interventions across the life span in urgent and emergency settings.

You’ll learn about STORM, non-violent communication and de-escalation techniques, risk assessment and risk management, the Mental Health Act, suicidal ideation and deliberate self-harm, substance misuse, and partnership working with other healthcare professionals.


Level6 & 7

Credit20

Module leadSue Linsley

LocationPlymouth

Semester2




The child and young person with mental health needsEnhance your existing knowledge and skills in the holistic care of children with mental health needs and their family.

Topics covered include:

• definitions of mental health

• common mental health issues and contributing factors

• multi-agency provision and inclusive care

• relevant social policy and legislation

• therapeutic interventions

• concepts of containment, reciprocity and behaviour management

• working with families to promote mental health.


Level6 & 7

Credit20

Module leadJanet Kelsey

LocationPlymouth

Semester2

Working with families (psychosis)Explore mental health difficulties in family contexts, and learn about family-based assessment and care planning, including the use of evidence-based interventions such as Behavioural Family Therapy.


Level6 & 7

Credit20


LocationPlymouth

Semester2

Working with people with a diagnosis of personality disorderDevelop capabilities and strategies for working with people with a diagnosis of personality disorder.

You’ll learn about working collaboratively with this client group, evidence-based interventions, diagnostic models, risk assessment and management and therapeutic risk taking, accountability, and service user’s perspectives on living with ‘personality disorder’.


Level6 & 7

Credit20

Module leadTracey Cassidy

LocationPlymouth

Semester1



MENTAL HEALTH AND LEARNING DISABILITY

AP(E)L mentorship via distance learning routeFor experienced mentors to gain academic credit up to one year after completion of a mentorship qualification.

You’ll study via distance learning using a designated website and personal tutor.

Module codeMENT603 / MENT703

Level6 & 7

Credit20

Module leadAdele Kane



Assessing adult learners in their practice (for health professionals and social workers)Learn to fairly assess the practice capability of adult learners.

You will:

• develop a critical capacity to judge a learner’s performance in practice

• critically analyse your own performance and ongoing development as an assessor.

ADV753 is aligned to the Practice Educator Professional Standards for Social Workers.


Level7

Credit20

Module leadJulie Mann

LocationTruro

Semester1

Confirming proficiency in professional practiceAccredits the experience of sign-off mentors who have evidence that demonstrates their activities.

You will learn to develop learning, assessment and support appropriate to the learner’s practice and level of education.

You’ll take accountability for the decision you make to pass or fail a student when assessing proficiency.

Module codeMENT604 / MENT704

Level6 & 7

Credit20







MentorshipFacilitate the education of learners and develop education within your practice setting.


• theories of teaching and learning

• student/mentor/clinical supervisor support systems

• assessment and appraisal systems.

Module codeHEAB370

Level6

Credit20

Module leadLizzie Ryan

LocationSouth Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust


Mentorship preparationThis module will prepare you to become a mentor and be confident and competent in assessing the practice of others. It will enable you to be recorded as a mentor on your employer’s mentor register.

Topics cover the theories of learning and teaching, facilitation of learning in clinical practice, assessment in clinical practice, support systems and accountability.

Module codeMENT605

Level6

Credit0


LocationCornwall / Exeter / North Devon / Plymouth / Somerset / Torbay


Preceptorship (APEL)Have you completed a preceptorship programme at work? Would you like to accredit your knowledge and experience?

You’ll gain 20 credits through undertake an academic reflection on your personal, clinical and professional development through preceptorship.

You’ll explore how preceptorship influences change in patient care, change in organisational development, and change personal and professional development.


Level6 & 7

Credit20




MENTORSHIP AND PRECEPTORSHIP



Supporting adult learners in professional practice settings (for health professionals and social work)Facilitate adult learning in professional practice settings.

You will:

• understand the way in which learning takes place in practice

• use a range of facilitation methods in response to assessed learner need.

ADV754 is aligned to the Practice Educator Professional Standards for Social Workers.


Level7

Credit20

Module leadJulia Wheeler

LocationTruro

Semester1

Teaching for practiceFor those wishing to gain a Nursing and Midwifery Council recordable qualification as teacher.

The module will prepare you to take a lead role in the development of educational practice within your practice setting.

You will learn about the theories of learning and teaching, assessment and feedback, use of evidence-based practice and developing the learning environment.

Module codeMCH513

Level7

Credit40

Module leadNadine Abelson-Mitchell

LocationPlymouth







MENTORSHIP AND PRECEPTORSHIP

Non-medical prescribing: independent and supplementary prescribing for designated allied health professionals (physiotherapists and podiatrists)Gain an understanding of the theoretical, analytical and clinical principles of prescribing and learn how to prescribe cost-effectively and safely within your remit.

You will develop skills in history taking, problem solving and accountability; and use evidence-based rationale for prescribing actions.

Successful completion of this module will lead to annotation on the NMC’s register as a Nurse/Midwife Independent and Supplementary Prescriber.

Module codeHEAD308 / HEAD709

Level6 & 7

Credit40

Module leadAlec Rickard

LocationPlymouth


Non-medical prescribing: independent and supplementary prescribing for nurses and midwivesPrescribe within your scope of practice. Develop skills in assessment and diagnosis, and identify and rationalise different pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches.

Successful completion of the module will lead to annotation on the NMC’s register as a Nurse/Midwife Independent and Supplementary Prescriber (V300).

Module codeNMP602 / NMP702

Level6 & 7

Credit40

Module leadLinda Duggan

LocationPlymouth





Non-medical prescribing: prescribing from the community practitioners formulary for nurses and midwives without a specialist practice qualificationLearn to prescribe safely, appropriately and cost-effectively from the Nurse Prescribers Formulary for Community Practitioners.

Successful completion will lead to annotation on the NMC’s register as a Community Practitioner Nurse Prescriber (without SPQ or SCPHN) (V150).

Module codeNMP601

Level6

Credit20

Module leadLinda Duggan

LocationPlymouth


Non-medical prescribing: supplementary to independent prescribing conversion for designated allied health professionals (physiotherapists and podiatrists)For physiotherapists and podiatrists who are already supplementary prescribers and wish to become independent prescribers.

Become confident in assessing and diagnosing to identify pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches.

You’ll learn to interpret current guidelines applicable to independent prescribers.

Successful completion of this module will lead to the independent prescribing annotation on the Heath and Care Professions Council register.

Module codeHEAD310 / HEAD711

Level6 & 7

Credit20


LocationPlymouth




PRESCRIBING

Supplementary prescribingPrescribe safely, effectively and cost-effectively within your scope of practice. You will develop your skills in assessment, history taking and diagnosis and be able to justify pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches.

Successful completion of this module will lead to annotation on the Health and Care Professions Council’s register as a supplementary prescriber.

Module codeHEAC327 / HEA577

Level6 & 7

Credit40


LocationPlymouth or distance learning







PRESCRIBING

Contemporary approaches to public healthExplore historical and theoretical perspectives relating to public health at individual, community, national and international levels.

You’ll examine the nature, purposes and practice of public health, and the ethics and ideologies the underpin public health policy.

Module codeAPP735

Level7

Credit20


LocationPlymouth


Global health in contextGain an understanding of international and national health policy, its development and the organisation of healthcare systems in high income and low income countries.

You’ll also learn about global tends of morbidity/mortality and national prevention strategies; socio-economic and health inequalities; environmental factors and their effect on health; and cultural perceptions of health and illness.

Module codeAPP733

Level7

Credit20


LocationPlymouth


Sociology of health and illnessConsider the extent to which health and illness are affected by social factors.

You’ll explore how social structural factors such as class, ethnicity, gender and age explain inequalities in health, disease levels and in access to medicine.

You’ll consider sociological and cultural explanations of health, illness and medicine.

Module codeAPP734

Level7

Credit20


LocationPlymouth







PUBLIC HEALTH, SEXUAL HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

Advanced clinical reasoning in musculoskeletal physiotherapyGain the practical skills for the assessment and management of musculoskeletal conditions.

You will learn about anatomy and biomechanics; common pathologies; screening and diagnostic tools, and sensitivity, and specificity of these; management approaches and tools; and psychosocial aspects including pain and self-management within the context of evidence-based practice.

Module codeADV748

Level7

Credit20

Module leadSusan May

LocationPlymouth

Semester2

Assessment and management of foot and lower limb musculoskeletal conditionsDevelop your appreciation of the strengths and limitations to community and outpatient setting assessment and management of foot and lower limb musculoskeletal conditions.

Through critique, analysis and reflection of your personal practice, you will refine your daily practice to offer a more sensitive assessment and directed management of such conditions.

Module codeADV761

Level7

Credit20


LocationPlymouth

Semester2

Injection therapy for health professionals (botulinum toxin)Develop knowledge and clinical skills in the administration of botulinum toxin via injection therapy.

You will explore the evidence base and clinical guidelines for your individual work area.

The module is delivered in practice as a partnership between Plymouth University and clinical specialists at Newton Abbot Hospital. It has a high focus on clinical skill development including time spent in a specialist injection clinic with service users.

Module codeADV708

Level7

Credit20

Module leadAmanda Denton

LocationTorbay

Semester2




Neurological rehabilitation: sensorimotor disordersDevelop the knowledge and clinical skills to assess and manage of people with sensorimotor neurological disorders.

Gain an understanding of the physiology of the sensory, motor and autonomic systems and interpret their role in the control of sensorimotor function.

Module codeADV737

Level7

Credit20

Module leadAmanda Denton

LocationPlymouth

Semester1

Pathomechanics and rehabilitation of gait and balanceExplore gait and balance alongside theoretical and practical approaches to rehabilitation in a wide variety of conditions.

Advance your professional understanding of diagnostic and therapeutic interventions for managing patients with gait and balance problems.

You will also critically evaluate therapeutic interventions and analyse the associated limitations and benefits with respect to clinical practice.

Module codeADV710

Level7

Credit20


LocationPlymouth

Semester2

Rehabilitation: cognition, perception and behaviourUnderstand the cause of cognitive and perceptual disorders due to central nervous system dysfunction and how these impact on the psychosocial function.

Draw on the fields of neuropsychology, neuroscience and rehabilitation to explore cognitive and perceptual domains such as memory, executive function, attention and language.

Module codeADV739

Level7

Credit20

Module leadJonathan Marsden

LocationPlymouth

Semester2



REHABILITATION

Specialist practice in stroke careDevelop practice-based skills to provide an optimal care environment for effective stroke care.

You will gain the skills to facilitate and/or lead on improving services for stroke patients, their carers and families, and the interdisciplinary team.

Module codeHEAC371

Level6

Credit40

Module leadKate Churchwood








REHABILITATION

Advancing research knowledge in practice 1Develop an understanding of research designs and methods to evaluate and critique research.

You’ll learn:

• about different research methodologies and collections methods

• to analyse and synthesise research literature

• ethical principles and user involvement in research

• about validity, reliability and rigour in research.

Module codeAPP702

Level7

Credit20


LocationPlymouth

Semester1 & 2

Advancing research knowledge in practice 2Gain the skills to formulate and plan a research project or undertake a systematic review.

You’ll learn how to formulate a research question and select appropriate methods of data collection and analysis taking into consideration ethical complexities.

Module codeAPP703

Level7

Credit20


LocationPlymouth

Semester1 & 2

Applying evidence to practiceGain the necessary knowledge, skills and attitudes to utilise best evidence and avoid information overload ensuring your practice is underpinned by robust quality evidence while addressing service users concerns, expectations and values.

You will identify a question relevant to your area of practice, review and critique the literature in this area, and plan and evaluate any necessary change to professional practice.

Module codeADV702

Level7

Credit20

Module leadKeith Walker

LocationPlymouth or distance learning

Semester1




DissertationCreate your own research project.

You will:

• identify a research topic

• design a systemic review of that topic

• develop knowledge and skills in critical appraisal, data collection, data analysis and synthesis, presentation and interpretation of research findings

• critically evaluate your research and consider the relevance to theory policy and/or professional practice

• learn through the process.

Module codeMCH504

Level7

Credit60

Module leadJenny Morris

LocationPlymouth


Enhancing clinical research in practiceDevelop your knowledge and skills in clinical research to provide high-quality and evidence-based care.

You will learn to plan and conduct participant focused clinical research, and utilise problem solving strategies to apply research evidence to practice.

Module codeHEAD345

Level6

Credit40

Module leadJoselyn Watson



Independent studyChoose to study an area of interest in depth, reflect on your learning and use this learning to enhance your own professional practice.

Module codeHEAD361

Level6

Credit40

Module leadJacky Griffith

LocationPlymouth

Semester1

RESEARCH IN PRACTICE



Project design for researchDevelop research knowledge and skills to plan and design an appropriate research project related to your individual practice.

Learn how to define and refine a research question, select and appraise methodology, address ethical considerations, and select and appraise data collection and analysis techniques.

Module codeADV715

Level7

Credit20

Module leadPaul Artes

LocationPlymouth

Semester1 & 2

Research dissertationDesign, undertake and report on a research project. Through this, you’ll deepen your understanding of the process of research and link theory to practice in your chosen area.

Learn how to design a research question, discuss ethical issues, select methodology and data analysis techniques, and interpret research findings.

Module codeADV716

Level7

Credit60

Module leadJenny Freeman

LocationPlymouth

Semester1

Substantive professional projectApply knowledge and understanding of research methodology and methods to a practice focused problem/issue, and provide recommendations for change.

Module codeSPP701

Level7

Credit40

Module leadJane Peters

LocationPlymouth

Semester1




Understanding evidence to inform clinical decision-makingExtend your knowledge and skills around using evidence to inform clinical decision-making.

Subjects covered include:

• identification and formulation of clinical questions

• development of effective search strategies to retrieve relevant research-based evidence

• critical evaluation of research-based evidence

• implementation of research-based evidence using appropriate models or frameworks.

Module codeHEAD360

Level6

Credit20

Module leadRhona Winnington

LocationPlymouth

Semester1 & 2



RESEARCH IN PRACTICE

Return to practice – nursingOffers eligibility to return to sub part 1 or sub part 2 of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) register as a nurse in any one of the four fields – adult, child, mental health or learning disability.

We use individual profiling to underpin your personalised learning journey, which is tailored to meet your particular needs.

The theoretical aspect of the module will run alongside your practice placement, and the main learning environment will be in one of the designated placement providers with a graded approach to placement hours based on Department of Health guidelines.

Module codeRTN601

Level6

Credit20

Module leadCarol Coleman

LocationPlymouth







RETURN TO PRACTICE

Advanced critical reflection, risk and decision-makingUtilise critical reflection as a tool to manage the complexity of risk, practice and decision-making processes.

You will:

• reflect on the management of risk, demonstrating a critical awareness of current problems and/or new insights

• evaluate the sources of knowledge and evidence that contribute to the development of practice and inform professional opinion

• develop awareness of self, biases and motivations as part of evaluating decision-making and practice in complex situations.

Module codeADV756

Level7

Credit20

Module leadAnnastasia Maksymluk

LocationPlymouth

Semester2

Advanced practice in safeguarding adultsDevelop your knowledge and skills in safeguarding adults, and apply theory and research to your practice.

You will increase your understanding of self in practice and how you manage uncertainty in complex situations, and advance your skills in multi-agency/professional working.

Module codeADV757

Level7

Credit20

Module leadDiane Galpin

LocationPlymouth

Semester1

Advanced practice with children and familiesEnhance your knowledge and skills of working with complex intra- and inter-personal processes in child welfare and safeguarding.

You will learn about systemic ways of working with children and families, and assessing risk in the context of harm and impaired development of children.

Module codeADV723

Level7

Credit20

Module leadSue Cook

LocationPlymouth





Application of law and policy in safeguarding adultsExamine policy and legal frameworks in safeguarding adults, specifically the Care Act 2014 and law pertaining to equality and human rights.

Recognise the importance of cross-referencing and analyse competing perspectives in legal frameworks.

Evaluate ways in which the law can be used to counter discrimination.

Module codeADV755

Level7

Credit20

Module leadDiane Galpin

LocationPlymouth

Semester2

Assessed and supported year in employmentThis module will enable you to attain the Assessed and Supported Year in Employment Level Capabilities of the Professional Capabilities Framework.

You will demonstrate a wide range of roles and tasks in your practice and become more effective in your interventions, allowing you to build on your confidence and earn the confidence of others.

Module codeADV601

Level6

Credit10

Module leadJulia Wheeler

LocationPlymouth


Children, young people and their families and the legal processEnhance your knowledge of the law and legal processes involved in safeguarding children, young people and their families.

You will engage with families in complex situations, using critical analysis to consider issues of rights, powers and duties and the promotion of welfare within a corporate parenting and legal framework.

Module codeADV746

Level7

Credit20

Module leadPenelope Welbourne

LocationTruro


SOCIAL WORK



Developing professional competence for non-graduate social workers ('bridging module')For experienced social workers who have not previously studied at degree level, or who have not studied for some time, to prepare for study at masters level.

The module outcomes are consistent with the Professional Capabilities Framework for social workers.

Module codeADV602

Level6

Credit10

Module leadPenelope Welbourne

LocationTruro


Safeguarding childrenYou must attend pre-enrolment (within an 18 month period prior to enrolling) that is a minimum of three taught days offered by Plymouth Safeguarding Children’s Board (PSCB) or children’s safeguarding events (conferences/workshops) provided at Plymouth University.

You will learn to improve the quality of services for children and their families.


Level6 & 7

Credit20

Module leadGillian Madge

LocationPlymouth

Semester1 & 2

Working in the professional environment with children and familiesApply a systematic approach to working with children and families in complex situations.

You will:

• apply learning from serious case review reports

• demonstrate an inquiring and creative approach in your work

• share information and work with professionals from other agencies.

Module codeADV745

Level7

Credit20

Module leadAndrew Wills

LocationTruro







SOCIAL WORK

STUDY DAYSAlongside our professional development courses we offer a range of study days which are specific to certain subject areas and/or skills. To find out more about our study days please visit www.plymouth.ac.uk/hhs-pd.

BESPOKE TRAININGWe work in collaboration with healthcare providers across the NHS and private, independent and voluntary sector to develop customised CPD for their workforces. Contact us at [email protected] to discuss the specific needs of your organisation.




WHY CHOOSE PLYMOUTH?

Provider of the largest range of health and social care courses in the South West

Our courses meet professional body standards such as the HCPC and the NMC

You can accredit your learning and experience

Can work with your organisation to create tailored courses that meet your specific needs

State of the art clinical facilities


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Advanced assessment for clinical practice 54

Advanced clinical reasoning for the critical care patient 43

Advanced clinical reasoning in musculoskeletal physiotherapy 96

Advanced concepts in critical care 43

Advanced Critical Care Practitioner MSc/PgDip 18

Advanced critical reflection, risk and decision-making 106

Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioner MSc/PgDip/PgCert 19

Advanced newborn and infant examination 80

Advanced newborn and infant examination (APL) 80

Advanced practice in safeguarding adults 106

Advanced practice with children and families 106

Advanced Professional Practice (Clinical Practitioner) MSc/PgDip/PgCert 19

Advanced Professional Practice (Community and Primary Care Practitioner) MSc/PgDip/PgCert 20

Advanced Professional Practice (Health and Social Care Professions) MSc/PgDip/PgCert 9

Advanced Professional Practice (Mental Health Practitioner) MSc/PgDip/PgCert 22

Advanced Professional Practice (Nursing and Midwifery Professions) MSc/PgDip/PgCert 22

Advanced Professional Practice in Dietetics MSc/PgDip/PgCert 10

Advanced Professional Practice in Neurological Rehabilitation MSc/PgDip/PgCert 10

Advanced Professional Practice in Occupational Therapy MSc/PgDip/PgCert 11

Advanced Professional Practice in Paediatric Dietetics MSc/PgDip/PgCert 12

Advanced Professional Practice in Physiotherapy MSc/PgDip/PgCert 12

Advanced Professional Practice in Safeguarding Adults MSc/PgDip/PgCert 14

Advanced Professional Practice in Social Work with Children and Families MSc/PgDip/PgCert 14

Advanced psychosocial assessment and formulation 82

Advancing Practice 41

Advancing practice in context 54

Advancing practice in long-term conditions management 76

Advancing research knowledge in practice 1 100

Advancing research knowledge in practice 2 100

Advancing the care and support of the person with dementia and their carer 66

Advancing the management of long-term conditions 76

AP(E)L mentorship via distance learning route 86

Application of law and policy in safeguarding adults 107

Applied physiology in critical illness 43

Applying evidence to practice 100

Assessed and supported year in employment 107

Assessing adult learners in their practice (for health professionals and social workers) 86

Assessment and management of foot and lower limb musculoskeletal conditions 96

Assessment, management and escalation of the acutely ill adult 44

Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease – management in primary care 76



INDEX

Course name Page

Award of Certificate of Professional Development (CPD) in Health Care Support (General Practice) 41

C

Capable practice in mental healthcare 82

Cardiovascular disease and stroke management in primary care 77

CBT interventions for mental health professionals (mood disorders) 82

CBT interventions for mental health professionals (psychosis) 83

Children, young people and their families and the legal process 107

Children's cardiac nursing care and management 44

Children's cardiac nursing foundation and high dependency care 45

Clinical decision-making in healthcare practice 54

Clinical dietetics for infants and children 62

Clinical Research MClinRes 15

Clinical skills in community and primary care 66

Confirming proficiency in professional practice 86

Contemporary approaches to public health 94

Contemporary Healthcare (Education) MSc/PgDip/PgCert 23

Contemporary issues in the care of the newborn 80

Core concepts in critical care 45

Critical Care BSc (Hons) 29

Critical Care (Intercalated) BSc (Hons) 29

Critical care management – airway, breathing, circulation 45

Critical care management – neurological, environmental and special patient groups 46

D

Developing expertise in clinical practice 46

Developing professional competence for non-graduate healthcare professionals ('bridging module')

55

Developing professional competence for non-graduate social workers ('bridging module') 108

Developing professional practice in critical care 46

Diabetes mellitus 77

Dietetic management of inherited metabolic disorders 62

Dissertation 101

E

Effective clinical leadership in complex community environments 72

Effective communication within complex community settings 68

Effective promotion of continence and management of incontinence 55

Enhanced acute medical care for older adults 47

Enhanced care of the patient requiring systemic anti-cancer therapy (SACT) 77

Enhanced knowledge and skills in children’s high dependency care 47

Enhanced Parkinson’s disease management 78

Enhanced practice in minor injuries care interventions 47

Enhanced principles and practice of renal nursing 78

Enhanced principles and practice of renal nursing (specialist skills) 78

Enhancing clinical research in practice 101

Enhancing end of life care and palliative care practice 70

Enhancing practice in chronic pulmonary conditions 79

Ethical and legal issues with healthcare practice 72

Evidencing professional development in urgent and emergency care (via e-portfolio) 48



Course name Page

F

Facilitating collaborative patient management and flow 55

Facilitating patient centred care and choice through advanced communication skills 70

Family planning and women's health in primary care 68

Foundation course in family therapy 83

Foundation course in solution focused therapy 83

Foundation level cognitive behavioural therapy skills 84

Foundations in Community and Primary Care 41

G

Gastro-intestinal endoscopy and related procedures for nurses (specialist skills) 56

Global health in context 94

H

Haemato-oncology 48

Holistic neonatal assessment and clinical management 81

Human Nutrition MSc/PgDip/PgCert 16

I

Independent study 101

Injection therapy for health professionals (botulinum toxin) 96

Injection therapy for health professionals (corticosteroid) 56

Integrated advancing practice in context 56

Integrated community and primary care in context 68

Integrated community and primary care practice 69

Intensive care for the neonate 81

Intermediate course in family therapy and systemic practice 84

International perspectives and practice requirements for health and social care practitioners 57

Introduction to children's cardiac nursing 48

Introduction to the practice and principles of managing individuals and teams within general practice

72

Introductory course for trainers in moving and handling of loads 49

L

Leadership and innovation 73

Leading professionals, managing aspirations for self and others 73

M

Management and leadership of people and teams in healthcare 73

Management of infection prevention 49

Managing clinical complexity 57

Maternal critical care 49

Mental health assessment in urgent, emergency and acute care 84

Mentorship 87

Mentorship preparation 87

Minor illness and minor injuries for health professionals who are providing first contact care 69



INDEX

Course name Page

Minor injuries skills and practice interventions 50

Minor skin surgery practice 57

N

Neonatal nutrition 63

Neurological rehabilitation: sensorimotor disorders 97

Non-medical prescribing: independent and supplementary prescribing for designated allied health professionals (physiotherapists and podiatrists)

90

Non-medical prescribing: independent and supplementary prescribing for nurses and midwives 90

Non-medical prescribing: prescribing from the community practitioners formulary for nurses and midwives without a specialist practice qualification

91

Non-medical prescribing: supplementary to independent prescribing conversion for designated allied health professionals (physiotherapists and podiatrists)

91

Nursing the critically ill child in a general intensive care unit 63

Nutrition and dietetics in common paediatric disorders 63

Nutrition and dietetics in infancy and childhood 64

O

Occupation as a focus of contemporary practice 58

P

Paediatric critical care 1: essentials of care and interventions 50

Paediatric critical care 2: foundations of care and interventions 50

Paediatric critical care 2: foundations of care and interventions for general ITU staff 51

Paediatric critical care 3: enhanced care and interventions 51

Participation for children and young people 64

Pathomechanics and rehabilitation of gait and balance 97

Perinatal mental health 81

Practice-based learning 58

Preceptorship (APEL) 87

Pre-Hospital Critical Care/Retrieval and Transfer MSc/PgDip/PgCert 17

Principles and practice of cardiothoracic surgical care 51

Principles of gastro-intestinal nursing 79

Professional Development in Advancing Practice BSc (Hons) 30

Professional Development in Community and Primary Care BSc (Hons) 30

Professional Development in Critical Care BSc (Hons) 31

Professional Development in End of Life Care BSc (Hons) 31

Professional Development in Health and Social Care BSc (Hons) 33

Professional Development in Long Term Conditions BSc (Hons) 34

Professional Development in Mental Health BSc (Hons) 35

Professional Development in Neonatal Care BSc (Hons)0 36

Professional Development in Nursing BSc (Hons) 36

Project design for research 102

R

Recognition and reduction of risk to the lower limb in the patient with diabetes 79

Rehabilitation: cognition, perception and behaviour 97

Research dissertation 102

Retrieval and transfer of a critical care patient in special situations 52

Return to practice – nursing 104



Course name Page

S

Safeguarding children 108

Sociology of health and illness 94

Specialist approaches to patient management in critical care 52

Specialist cancer care 53

Specialist practice in stroke care 98

Stoma care 58

Substantive professional project 102

Supplementary prescribing 92

Supported independent study 59

Supporting adult learners in professional practice settings (for health professionals and social work)

88

Supporting people in loss, grief and bereavement – enhanced practice 71

Supporting the needs of the frail older person 71

Surgical Care Practitioner (Abdominal, Pelvic and General Surgery) MSc/PgDip 24

Surgical Care Practitioner (Cardiothoracic Surgery) MSc/PgDip 25

Surgical Care Practitioner (Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery) MSc/PgDip 26

T

Teaching for practice 88

The ageing person: society, body and mind 59

The child and young person with mental health needs 85

The child or young person requiring urgent or emergency care 64

The fundamentals of health assessment 59

The supervision of clinical practice – application of enhanced theory and skills 74

Tissue viability: core knowledge for practice 60

U

Understanding evidence to inform clinical decision-making 103

Urgent and Emergency Care BSc (Hons) 38

Urgent and Emergency Care (Intercalated) BSc (Hons) 38

Urgent, emergency and critical care: leadership and innovation 53

W

Working in the professional environment with children and families 108

Working with families (psychosis) 85

Working with people with a diagnosis of personality disorder 85



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