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Our standalone modules and short courses provide high quality Continuing Professional Development (CPD) training for health and social care professionals. Whether you want to refresh your knowledge, expand your expertise or explore new areas of practice, we have a range of training to offer.
- Level Short Course
- Study mode Short Course
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- School School of Nursing and Midwifery
- Faculty Faculty of Health, Education and Life Sciences
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Overview
If you’re looking to develop your career in healthcare, and increase your expertise in a particular area, we offer a range of short courses and standalone modules.
Our CPD courses range from short, non-credit bearing courses to assessed modules which can count towards an undergraduate or postgraduate qualification, or full postgraduate degree (PgDip or MSc).
What's covered in this course?
Our non-credit bearing short courses are ideal for health and social care practitioners who wish to update their skills and knowledge, have a particular interest to pursue, or would like to gain a new skill. They can vary in length from half a day to five days. Please note that non-credit bearing short courses do not include academic credit; only our accredited courses count towards a qualification.
We also offer credit-bearing short courses. These assessed modules can count towards a Bachelor’s degree (Level 6) or a Master’s degree (Level 7). Our courses are run flexibly from September to June.
Further credit-bearing modules are available through our Professional Practice Framework. View our Professional Practice modules.
We also have some online non credit-bearing short courses. View our short course information.
Why Choose Us?
- Clinically focused content
- A strong focus on current issues and an emphasis on the practical application of knowledge
- Each module has a bespoke "Moodle" based website which contains all module documentation, handouts, links to key documents and supplementary articles of interest
- Ongoing support from staff whilst in university to facilitate your development as a learner
- Excellence in delivering high quality standards of flexible and bespoke academic provision for post qualifying practitioners
- State-of-the-art facilities
Fees & How to Apply
UK students
Annual and modular tuition fees shown are applicable to the first year of study. The University reserves the right to increase fees for subsequent years of study in line with increases in inflation (capped at 5%) or to reflect changes in Government funding policies or changes agreed by Parliament.
International students
Sorry, this course is not available to International students.
Course in Depth
Level 6
This module is designed to equip students with the ability to identify how evidence can be applied to underpin and guide diabetes care decisions and how evidence informs standards, policy and guidelines.
This module will include aspects of contemporary evidence and its application to diabetes care which is designed to enhance knowledge and skills in this specialist field. The module will require students to appraise and synthesis evidence and its application in diabetes care. Students will be encouraged to review their practices and then investigate what evidence they currently use to underpin their clinical decision making. The module has been designed in collaboration with clinical colleagues and blends theoretical approaches with opportunities of emerging evidence into clinical application and innovation.
This module is delivered as a standalone module, and as part of the Advancing Diabetes Care PgDip and MSc pathway. This module aligns with the post-graduate philosophy and is designed to be flexible, and practice led. Students will have the opportunity to develop skills of enquiry, reflection and problem solving. A flexible online learning approach is taken. Students will be encouraged to think critically and share practice experiences within an online discussion forum with fellow students, as well as engaging in both directed and self-directed learning activities. They will be an active partner in their own learning and development and in return will receive regular feedback and feed forward aimed at developing their academic skills and have the opportunity to discuss progress with the module team.
Module contact: Anne Phillips
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This course prepares qualified midwives, nurses, or specialist community public health nurses to be able to competently and proficiently perform the holistic examination of the newborn and infant. The course includes the requirements to become a Newborn and Infant Physical Examination Screening Practitioner, in accordance with current Public Health England requirements (NIPE, Public Health England, PHE, 2019).
The newborn screening examination is an essential part of the newborn screening pathway and it is performed within the first 72 hours of life, and is repeated at 6-8 weeks of life. For you to perform this role, PHE (2019) require that you successfully complete a university accredited programme of study “examination of the newborn”, completing both theoretical and clinical competency based assessments.
You will be studying at level 6, and therefore you will be expected to achieve the required standard when evaluating and using evidence to support your learning.
Start date: February
Module contact: Maggie Prain
Ready to apply?
Our psychological and psycho-social aspects of diabetes module offers an opportunity to critically consider and investigate the intricacies and complexities of living with diabetes. People with diabetes can experience disproportionately high rates of mental ill health including increased incidences of depression, anxiety, distress and eating disorders.
Effective management of diabetes requires constant effort from the person living with diabetes. This can be compounded by social exclusion from health services. Emotional health is necessary to manage diabetes effectively so practitioner awareness of caring for emotions is paramount to promote self-management and knowledge gain in people with diabetes.
Also educational and support resources, aimed to enable people to engage in effective self-management and enablement to learn how to live with their diabetes can help reduce psychological distress. Psychological care should be integrated with diabetes care in order to optimise health outcomes and improve the experience and quality of life of people living with diabetes.
Start date: April
Module contact: Anne Phillips
Ready to apply?
Modules run subject to appropriate student numbers to ensure the best student experience. It may therefore be necessary to suspend a particular entry point for a module. If this happens, any applications will be transferred to the next start date for the course.
Level 7
The module is designed for clinicians with experience in the assessment and management of the patient with lower limb peripheral vascular disease, which encompasses both arterial, venous and lymphatic diseases. Students will critically explore and analyse existing and developing theories and concepts that underpin the assessment and management of peripheral vascular disease including arterial and venous pathology, thus facilitating both professional and personal growth and enhancing patient care.
This module will provide students with advancing theories for the assessment and management of people with peripheral arterial and venous disorders that affect the lower limb. There will be a strong focus on relevance to practice, practice planning and development, leadership, and transformation. It will blend theoretical approaches with the challenges of up-to-date care and surgical approaches with a focus on patient education, policy and person-centred care delivery throughout the module.
Module contact: Jayne Robbie
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This module offers qualified health practitioners working with people living with diabetes the opportunity to extend the breadth, depth and complexity of their individual erudition and practice. Critically examining the knowledge, evidence and competencies to work at a higher level of practice to respond to prevention of complication of diabetes, and / or active evidence based management to prolong independence and promote quality of life.
This module examines the effects of diabetes related complications in terms of glycaemic management related to the effects of hypoglycaemia, ketoacidosis and/or hyperglycaemic hyperosmolar syndrome. Also, the incidence, evidence and effective management of diabetes related complications presenting as neuropathic, cardiovascular and psychological complications are critically examined.
Diabetes related complications are costly in terms of effects on quality of life, families, dependence, intrusion and treatment access. Additionally, economic, social and societal effects of early disability or individuals requiring intensive treatments for complications. Practitioners have a unique role to inform and support individuals to learn about their diabetes, to promote informed decisions and effective self-management and aim to avoid complications.
Start date: January
Module contact: Anne Phillips
This module offers qualified healthcare practitioners working with children & young people with diabetes, the opportunity to extend the breadth, depth and complexity of their individual practice. To equip them with the knowledge and competencies to work at a higher level of practice to respond and, as such, reflect the strategic direction of Children and Young Persons Diabetes Care Services nationally and internationally. This module provides a comprehensive postgraduate learning experience that fosters the use of problem solving, using solution focussed techniques with children, young people and their families.
Emerging models from international research highlights a requirement for a more flexible and highly skilled healthcare workforce. Diabetes care is a national and international priority due to increasing prevalence (World Health Organisation, (WHO), 2016).
There is an increasing importance that children, young people and their families acquire the knowledge and skills to enable to self-manage diabetes successfully and thus help to prevent the costly complications of this condition (NICE NG17, NG18, 2015). They can only gain the self-management knowledge and skills if they themselves are trained by well-educated, knowledgeable and competent practitioners in diabetes care (NHS Diabetes, 2012).
This is of particular importance for infants, children & young people (0-25 years) diagnosed with type 1 in the UK and across Europe. The increase in prevalence is 3-5% per annum and additionally the increasing numbers of type 2 and syndromic diabetes. Diabetes is a lifelong condition with increasing evidence to suggest that effective care from diagnosis is of paramount importance in avoiding short, medium and long-term complications.
Start dates: September, January
Module contacts: Carole Gelder and Anne Phillips
This module offers qualified health practitioners working with people experiencing diabetes an advanced career pathways which include higher level specialist practice, career progression in diabetes care, research development, publication opportunities and management of developing service opportunities.
This module recognises the importance of practitioners working with women with all types of diabetes, in planning, managing, delivering and evaluating effective evidence based diabetes care before, during and after pregnancy. The risks of pregnancy in diabetes for the mother and baby and the reasons for the adverse outcomes will be critically examined with reference to national and international evidence and guidelines for practice. Diabetes occurring during pregnancy is becoming increasing more prevalent and the escalating public health risk of gestational diabetes is recognised.
Start date: April
Module contacts: Anne Phillips and Theresa Smyth
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Our effective person-centred diabetes education module has been designed to advance an enhanced, critical understanding of how individuals learn about their diabetes. This module emphasises the individual lived experience of diabetes in an age-appropriate way.
The holistic nature of diabetes and effective engagement during person-centred contact is critically examined. Reflection of ‘Making every contact count’ in a meaningful way to meet individual needs in promotion of knowledge and effective self-management skills is fundamental to this module. Critical examination of current and emerging ways of delivering effective education, whilst acknowledging individual health literacy, with differing groups of people underpins this module.
Current and prospective diabetes service provision is also critically evaluated. Developing cultural competence and reaching hard to reach minority groups is also critically examined in terms of flexible approaches to current education provision. A visionary outreach approach encompassing language matters skills is essential in this module.
Start dates: September, January, April
Module contact: Martha Stewart
Ready to apply?
This course prepares qualified midwives, nurses, or specialist community public health nurses to be able to competently and proficiently perform the holistic examination of the newborn and infant. The course includes the requirements to become a Newborn and Infant Physical Examination Screening Practitioner, in accordance with current Public Health England requirements (NIPE, Public Health England, PHE, 2019).
The newborn screening examination is an essential part of the newborn screening pathway and it is performed within the first 72 hours of life, and is repeated at 6-8 weeks of life. For you to perform this role, PHE (2019) require that you successfully complete a university accredited programme of study “examination of the newborn”, completing both theoretical and clinical competency based assessments.
You will be studying at level 6, and therefore you will be expected to achieve the required standard when evaluating and using evidence to support your learning.
Start date: February
Module contact: Maggie Prain
Ready to apply?
This module will provide students with advancing strategies in foot care complexities and treatments in both diabetes and peripheral vascular disease (PVD) that can affect the lower limb, this encompasses both arterial, venous and lymphatic diseases. There will be a strong focus on relevance to practice, clinical management, practice planning and person-centred care approaches. It will blend theoretical advances with the challenges of up-to-date assessment, diagnosis and treatment approaches.
Applying a strong focus on education, national guidelines and treatment challenges throughout the module. Students will explore and recognise the potential for practice-led contemporary foot care strategies in PVD. Supporting students to extend and enhance their employability and career progression. Through identification of ways in which they can develop their services by utilising modern technology and diagnostics to innovate new models of interdisciplinary practice and interventions.
Module contact: Jayne Robbie
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This module is part of the MSc / PGDip / PGCert Transforming and Leading in Health Care and critically examines the challenges and issues effecting health and social care leaders globally. In many countries, the provision of health care remains highly challenging. This module examines the global issues faced across many health care systems, and utilises your experience from your home country, for you to learn from each other as well as published information.
The debated topics across the world are remarkably similar and include topics such as; finances, demand, technology, skilled professionals and public health. You will consider how different countries health strategies look to address their health challenges and you will debate how such strategies could shape or influence your own organisation. The module will help you critically appraise the issues that globally affect healthcare leaders including governance and accreditation, risk, workforce planning and global economics and policy.
Whilst many of the health topics that communities face is similar, solutions to the health care issues and demands are diverse. There is emphasis throughout the module on the collaborative and multi-professional skills required to successfully work with other agencies and professionals to enable the health care provision across communities.
It will challenge you to recognise the limitations and complexity of different health care approaches and enable you to think which approaches you may choose or consider in constructing a health system. For your employability, this module will potentially help you to focus on the country in which you might like to work in the future.
Dates:
September 26
October 3, 10, 17
November 7
Times: 9:00am - 5.00pm
Application Deadline: 15 September 2024
Module contact: Helen Cope
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Blended learning
Distance learning
This module is part of the MSc Transforming and Leading in Health Care and explores creativity, innovation and service improvement and the application of these areas to the quality and safety of patient care. It will give you the experience of understanding, reviewing and applying theories of innovation, improvement and change into practice.
You will critically review theories, roles and responsibilities, and different methods while drawing on key learning from research and literature, whilst considering how these relate and apply to your practice. The aims of this module are to equip you with an in-depth knowledge, understanding and critical awareness when working in a creative and improvement space within the field of healthcare, to stretch your thinking and analysis of practice, contributing towards your personal and professional development and fostering independent study.
This will be facilitated by encouraging you to further develop your critical thinking, research skills and written skills, and will conclude with the production of a written assignment. By developing the skills and attribute to be able to identify problems accurately, assess appropriate methods and approaches to planning and implementing real and progressive innovations in your workplace you will enhance your employability.
Dates:
January 16, 23, 30
February 13, 20
Times: 9:00am - 5.00pm
Application Deadline: 1 January 2025
Module contact: Helen Cope
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CP0755
CP0757
This module is part of the MSc Transforming and Leading in Health Care and explores creativity, innovation and service improvement and the application of these areas to the quality and safety of patient care. It will give you the experience of understanding, reviewing and applying theories of innovation, improvement and change into practice.
You will critically review theories, roles and responsibilities, and different methods while drawing on key learning from research and literature, whilst considering how these relate and apply to your practice. The aims of this module are to equip you with an in-depth knowledge, understanding and critical awareness when working in a creative and improvement space within the field of healthcare, to stretch your thinking and analysis of practice, contributing towards your personal and professional development and fostering independent study.
This will be facilitated by encouraging you to further develop your critical thinking, research skills and written skills, and will conclude with the production of a written assignment. By developing the skills and attribute to be able to identify problems accurately, assess appropriate methods and approaches to planning and implementing real and progressive innovations in your workplace you will enhance your employability.
Dates:
January 16, 23, 30
February 13, 20
Times: 9:00am - 5.00pm
Application Deadline: 1 January 2025
Module contact: Helen Cope
Ready to apply?
CP0755
CP0757
Our leadership in diabetes care module acknowledges that health professionals play a pivotal role in the experience of people living with diabetes. Interdisciplinary team working in partnership with people experiencing diabetes embraces the skills to deliver effective, efficient and efficacious diabetes care.
Contemporary evidence emphasises the partnership working potential of interdisciplinary working of effective teams, but also highlights where collaborative practices of teams or team members can place restrictions on services and lack growth of psychological or service development opportunities in diabetes care.
This module investigates team working with a focus on unleashing successful opportunities for service development recognition whilst engaging in a culture of evidence, person to person communication, humanity and concern to support the delivery of person centred effective and individualised diabetes care.
Start date: October
Module contact: Anne Phillips
This module explicitly addresses students’ personal and/or professional development with a view to enhancing competence for service improvement in a rapidly changing health and healthcare environment. Through a flexible provision, students are inspired to reflect critically upon their individual learning needs as well as their organisations’ practices, to appraise and apply concepts from the literature on leadership, to issues of relevance for their role, organisation and overall programme of study.
Module contact: Melanie Mills
Our leadership in peripheral vascular disease module acknowledges that health professionals play a pivotal role in the experience of people peripheral vascular disease (PVD), which encompasses both arterial, venous and lymphatic diseases. Interdisciplinary team working in partnership with people experiencing PVD embraces the skills to deliver effective, efficient and efficacious PVD care.
Contemporary evidence emphasises the partnership working potential of interdisciplinary working of effective teams, but also highlights where collaborative practices of teams or team members can place restrictions on services and lack growth of psychological or service development opportunities in PVD.
This module investigates team working with a focus on unleashing successful opportunities for service development recognition whilst engaging in a culture of evidence, person to person communication, humanity and concern to support the delivery of person centred effective and individualised PVD services.
Module contact: Jayne Robbie
Ready to apply?
This module explicitly addresses students’ personal and/or professional development with a view to enhancing competence for service improvement in a rapidly changing health and healthcare environment. Through a flexible provision, students are inspired to reflect critically upon their individual learning needs as well as their organisations’ practices, to appraise and apply concepts from the literature on leadership, to issues of relevance for their role, organisation and overall programme of study.
This module also focuses on pursuing excellence in leadership and project management principles and encouraging practice-led, applied knowledge for students on various MSc courses to lead service improvement and/or policy change effectively and efficiently. This will be achieved by supporting students to work through the technical steps and phases as well as the more practical realities of leading and managing a project; and addressing the more challenging aspects of project management such as demonstrating a need for change, sustaining staff engagement, managing resistance and working across departmental and organisational boundaries.
Start date: April
Module contact: Fouad Berrahou
This module is suited to healthcare professionals or others with an interest in obesity, prevention and management of type 2 diabetes. It gives an insight into the complex link between obesity and health, specifically in relation to type 2 diabetes and co-morbidities. This underpins a specialist and holistic approach.
Obesity in the UK and internationally is a contemporary health concern, with recognition that it is one of the leading preventable causes of death currently. This is also reflected in many countries internationally and the problems with over nutrition, especially in counties like India are presenting a twin epidemic with 14% of India’s population experiencing under nutrition and 86% over nutrition due to increasing western influences and accessibility to food.
Start date: September
Module contact: Anne Phillips and Tahira Bashir
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This module has both clinical and academic components, it aims to prepare you for a career in medical ultrasound, where you are continually seeking to improve yourself, the patient experience, and your own diagnostic expertise. This Module aims to provide you with a thorough knowledge of normal fetal appearances and fetal abnormalities in early pregnancy, first, second and third trimester.
The aim of the module is to use experiential learning within the clinical placement as a foundation for safe and ethical ultrasound practice. In order to support consistent and equitable high-quality training, you are required to complete 320 “hands on” practical scanning hours, undertaking a minimum of 400 examinations across a prescribed range of clinical referrals. This will enable you to develop the skills required to: perform a complete and competent obstetric ultrasound scan.
This module offers qualified health practitioners working with people living with diabetes the opportunity to extend the breadth, depth and complexity of their individual erudition and practice in relation to the promotion and inclusion of suitable physical activity advice and engagement that is person centred and culturally appropriate. Utilising an interdisciplinary approach this will support individuals and communities to understand more about the role of physical activity in their health and diabetes prevention or care.
Type 1 diabetes is a challenging condition to manage for various physiological and behavioural reasons. Regular exercise is important, but management of different forms of physical activity can be particularly difficult for both the individual with type 1 diabetes and the practitioner. Regular exercise can improve health and wellbeing, and can help individuals to achieve their target lipid profile, body composition, fitness and glycaemic goals. However, several additional barriers to exercise can exist for a person with type 1 diabetes, including fear of hypoglycaemia, loss of glycaemic control, and inadequate knowledge around exercise management.
Start dates: April
Module contact: Martha Stewart and Tahira Bashir
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This module will include all aspects of lower limb surgical practice in peripheral vascular surgery, which encompasses both arterial, venous and lymphatic diseases, and is designed to enhance knowledge and practical skills in this specialist surgical field and to enable students to achieve enhanced clinical competencies.
This module will provide students with advanced theoretical knowledge of the surgical strategies that are applied in peripheral vascular disease and limb salvage. It has been designed in collaboration with clinical colleagues and blends theoretical approaches with the opportunities of emerging evidence, service development and cutting-edge care surgical approaches.
It will develop and build on core generic skills of surgical care, whilst concentrating on specialist aspects of surgery, clinical examination, inpatient and outpatient-based patient care and will enable students working in various aspects of peripheral vascular medicine to develop their knowledge and critical analytical skills. Students will understand, review and apply theories of clinical innovation, service improvement and change into their surgical practice.
Critical analysis of evidence and exploration of different methods of limb salvage while drawing on key learning from research and literature, facilitate consideration and application in clinical practice.
Module contact: Adam Crizzle
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Our psychological and psycho-social aspects of diabetes module offers an opportunity to critically consider and investigate the intricacies and complexities of living with diabetes. People with diabetes can experience disproportionately high rates of mental ill health including increased incidences of depression, anxiety, distress and eating disorders.
Effective management of diabetes requires constant effort from the person living with diabetes. This can be compounded by social exclusion from health services. Emotional health is necessary to manage diabetes effectively so practitioner awareness of caring for emotions is paramount to promote self-management and knowledge gain in people with diabetes.
Also educational and support resources, aimed to enable people to engage in effective self-management and enablement to learn how to live with their diabetes can help reduce psychological distress. Psychological care should be integrated with diabetes care in order to optimise health outcomes and improve the experience and quality of life of people living with diabetes.
Start date: April
Module contact: Anne Phillips
Ready to apply?
This module offers an opportunity to critically consider and investigate the intricacies and complexities of living with all aspects of lower limb peripheral vascular disease (PVD), this encompasses both arterial, venous and lymphatic diseases, as well as associated tissue viability complexities and multi-morbidity.
People with PVD and associated multi-morbidities can experience high rates of mental ill health including increased incidences of depression, anxiety, and distress. Effective management of PVD requires constant efforts from the person living with PVD. This can be compounded by social exclusion from health services. Emotional health is necessary to manage PVD and associated wounds effectively so practitioner awareness of caring for emotions is paramount to promote self-management and knowledge gain in people with PVD.
Also, educational and support resources, aimed to enable people to engage in effective self management and enablement in order to reduce resultant avoidable psychological distress. Psychological care should be integrated in order to optimise health outcomes and improve the experience and quality of life for people with PVD.
Module contact: Jayne Robbie
Ready to apply?
The module aims to explore Quality Improvement methodologies and their application to wound healing and tissue repair to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of patient care and service delivery.
It will support the development of your knowledge, understanding and skills in the application of Quality Improvement strategies into practice to support the delivery of high-quality care, ensuring improved patient services and outcomes. There will be a strong focus on measurement for improvement, understanding systems, variation, testing change ideas, leadership and strategic planning.
Module contact: Jackie Stephen-Haynes
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This module feeds into the MSc in Safeguarding programme philosophy aim of addressing key contemporary safeguarding issues.
This module aims to facilitate your advanced learning and critical appraisal of contemporary safeguarding issues, and analyse how statutory and non-statutory agencies and services can work together to safeguard adults, children and vulnerable young people. It considers current safeguarding topics which have attracted high media attention and examines different agency interventions, good practice and failings, and how this knowledge can be applied to learning lessons for the future and to current best safeguarding practice.
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This module feeds into the MSc in Safeguarding programme philosophy aim of understanding and analysing working with multi-complex safeguarding cases and the wider complexities and socioeconomic factors and dynamics which impact on the safeguarding of people.
This module aims to equip you with an in-depth knowledge, understanding and critical awareness when working with complex safeguarding cases. It aims to stretch your thinking and analysis of safeguarding practice beyond your knowledge of basic ‘recognition and referral’ in safeguarding work.
The module critically examines the complexity of safeguarding work and the roles and responsibilities of different agencies while drawing on key learning from research, literature and serious case reviews.
The module examines the socio-economic factors which influence vulnerability, outcomes for victims, and considers ethnic and cultural aspects, and their links to safeguarding.
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This module feeds into the MSc in Safeguarding programme philosophy aim of equipping you with an up to date, in-depth knowledge, understanding and critical awareness of the legal, ethical, and practice issues which underpin practice in both adult, young people and child safeguarding.
This module aims to facilitate your open and transparent critical appraisal of the legal, ethical and professional practice issues and frameworks surrounding the safeguarding of vulnerable adults, young people and children. It provides you with the opportunity to consider the safeguarding legalities and processes, and critically evaluate how legal and statutory interventions protect vulnerable people from harm.
The module examines the roles and responsibilities of professionals and how statutory and non-statutory agencies and services work together as well as the barriers to multi-agency working, while challenging you to scrutinise your own practice. It also draws on ethical issues within safeguarding and considers the impact of differing values and beliefs within the safeguarding arena. Parts of this module provides you with the opportunity to critically analyse and consider the court processes within safeguarding and helps you to be better prepared for court appearances and the production of evidence for court - an ever increasing demand on practitioners in safeguarding practice today.
Module contact: Melanie Mills
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This module feeds into the MSc Safeguarding programme philosophy aim of examining the wider complexities and socio-economic factors and dynamics which impact on the safeguarding of people and accumulative risks.
This module is designed to help you become a knowledgeable and skilled practitioner who is confident to carry out your specific responsibilities for safeguarding vulnerable people within your role. The module examines the wider complexities and socio-economic factors and dynamics which impact on the safeguarding of adults, young people & children including accumulative risks with an emphasis on key known vulnerabilities.
There is emphasise on the collaborative and multi-agency skills and tools required to successfully work with other agencies and professionals to ensure the safety and wellbeing of vulnerable people. It will challenge you to recognise the limitations and complexity of working with vulnerable people while considering and reflecting on the effectiveness of safeguarding supervision within practice.
Module contact: Melanie Mills
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This module offers qualified health practitioners working with people living with type 1 diabetes the opportunity to extend the breadth, depth and complexity of their individual erudition and practice. Critically examining the knowledge, evidence and competencies to work at a higher level of practice to respond to the advancing glycaemic management techniques and developing digital technologies for people with type 1 diabetes.
Type 1 diabetes is an increasingly common auto-immune condition which affects every age group. The immunology, genetics, environmental factors and increasing incidence of type 1 diabetes will be critically examined. Care approaches and partnership working with people with type 1 diabetes needs to be designed and delivered in a person-enabling and age appropriate way. Type 1 diabetes is complex and unpredictable and requires person-centred engagement to optimise knowledge and self-management techniques.
Increasing use of insulin delivery technologies and glycaemic management opportunities will be core to this module. Alongside the human factors of living well with type 1 diabetes to promote safety, engagement, psychological support and enablement are essential, when working with people living with the daily challenges of type 1 diabetes. Case scenarios and special situations in type 1 diabetes care will be critically examined within this module.
Start date: January
Module contact: Anne Phillips and Tahira Bashir
This module is part of the MSc Transforming and Leading Health Care and aims to facilitate advancing of your self-learning and self-understanding. It will give you insight into your personal and professional strengths, your limitations, your leadership, communication skills and work styles, and how these affect your behaviours including how you learn and your personal resilience.
It incorporates psychometric tools and instruments Understanding personality and effectively reading the behaviour of other people is not a hit and miss process but a skill which can be learned and then applied into every aspect of work and life. It is a core skill that will influence your professional working life. It contributes to win/win situations and provides the skills to deal with conflicts before disruptive behaviour is escalated.
The aims of the module are to enable you to apply a series of interpersonal and behavioural skills within your workplace; develop interpersonal skills and behavioural competence for self-management, team working; and to enable improvements in the way you practice and deliver services.
This module will help you manage yourself more effectively, lead others more compassionately and authentically and influence your teams and organisation on how to progress in key areas under your remit in your workplace.
Dates:
September 30
October 7, 14
November 4, 11
Times: 9:00am - 5.00pm
Application Deadline: 15 September 2024
Module contact: Helen Cope
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Blended learning
Distance learning
The aims of this module are to equip you with an in-depth knowledge, understanding and critical awareness of wound healing and tissue repair and to challenge your thinking and analysis of practice, contributing towards your personal and professional development and fostering independent study. There will be a strong focus on relevance to practice, practice development, leadership, transformation and strategic planning.
Wound healing and tissue repair will be considered from a strategic global perspective with a focus on education, policy and care delivery. Research and evidence underpinning wound healing and tissue repair and their implications for care delivery will have a strong focus throughout the module.
Module contact: Jackie Stephen-Haynes
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Modules run subject to appropriate student numbers to ensure the best student experience. It may therefore be necessary to suspend a particular entry point for a module. If this happens, any applications will be transferred to the next start date for the course.
Facilities & Staff
Our Facilities
Our School of Nursing and Midwifery is based at our City South campus in leafy Edgbaston.
We’ve spent £41million expanding our facilities at City South. These facilities offer hands-on practical experience, replicating the spaces you will come across in professional practice.
In a sector where new techniques are constantly being discovered, we work hard to ensure that you learn using the most up-to-date equipment available. Alongside physical spaces such as a mock operating theatre and wards, we also make use of online and virtual technology, such as our virtual ward and virtual case creator.
See more of our skills facilities at City South
Centre for Skills and Simulation
The Centre for Skills and Simulation offers a range of different spaces which replicate situations that you will encounter in practice. These include hospital wards, an operating theatre and a home environment room.
Our mock wards enable you to get a feel of what a ward is really like before you head out for your first placement. The hospital wards can be adapted from low care to high dependency care environment with the necessary monitoring equipment.
The home environment room is the perfect space for teaching communications skills and allows us to simulate a community setting for our students. It is particularly useful for mental health nurses, learning disability nurses and midwives.
Simulation Manikins
We have several Simulation men (SIM men) and simulation babies (SIM babies) which are anatomically correct manikins used for teaching specific techniques such as advanced adult and paediatric life support skills, acute and high dependency clinical skills, first aid and communication skills. The manikins contain software which replicates real symptoms, and can manipulate indicators such as blood pressure, pulse and heart rate for extra realism. SIM man can even ‘talk’ to the students as they are treating him, to add another dimension to learning.
Computer Facilities
The Seacole building has two open-access IT Suites which offer PCs, printers, photocopiers and scanners. There is also an IT Helpdesk for quick and easy help with your computing or internet issues.
Our PCs utilise the latest Intel i5 core technology, all with:
- Fast (unrestricted) internet connectivity
- Ability to save files to USB, DVD & CD
- Microsoft Office software
- Research and statistical software
- Storage space which can be accessed from any PC across the University and from home
Our PCs are also designed to support students who may have difficulties with reading and writing, featuring specialised software with zooming/magnification and screen reading capabilities, which may also be customised for individual student needs.
In addition to desktop PCs, we also offer a laptop loan facility, allowing students to borrow a laptop for up to six hours while on campus.
Enquiries
If you have any queries about one of the modules, please contact the Module Leader(s). Details can be found in the module description.