Advancing Practice in Peripheral Vascular Disease - Module / MSc

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. 

All methods of debridement, including autolytic, bio surgical, enzymatic and conservative sharp debridement can pose potential risks to the patient, but removal of devitalised tissue from a wound can reduce infection risk and facilitate improved healing outcomes. With the cost of wounds to the NHS estimated to be £8.3 billion annually, understanding and using advanced skills in wound management could contribute to reducing long term wound care costs and improving wound healing rates. Advanced knowledge and skills in wound management need to become part of the wound management practitioner’s tool kit. This module will enable the predominately graduate healthcare practitioner to explore advanced wound management techniques and consider the support and requirements needed to adopt them into practice.   

Wounds to the lower leg are a significant cause of pain, anguish and distress to patients. The management of these long-term conditions are often poorly managed in practice. Unwarranted variations in lower leg and foot care not only have devastating consequences on quality of life but also have a major impact on the healthcare economy. This module aims to provide you with opportunities to further develop your understanding of these conditions and their management. You will have the opportunity to critically reflect on the current evidence-based principles underpinning the various assessment strategies and management options that may be utilised in the care of these wounds. 

Wounds are a significant cause of morbidity and mortality as well as significant risk to global health care economies. The module aims to further develop your understanding of the key concepts of the wound healing process and how numerous factors can negatively affect the normal sequence of events. You will have the opportunity to critically reflect on the evidence-based principles underpinning wound management and explore the literature that currently guides practice. Interdisciplinary principles and practices of wound care management will be explored. By fully engaging in this module, you will have the opportunity to develop your critical analysis, evaluation and synthesis skills and the skills necessary to foster lifelong learning within this challenging field.  

Pressure ulcers are a significant cause of morbidity and mortality across all age groups. Treating pressure ulcers are estimated to cost between £1.2 billion and £2.4 billion per year in the UK, therefore preventing pressure ulcers is high on the agenda for the NHS and for other healthcare institutions globally. This module will address the considerations needed to implement clinically an effective pressure ulcers prevention and treatment strategy. 

This module is aimed at post graduate senior healthcare practitioners who wish to enhance their skills and knowledge required to deliver evidence-based clinical management for a patient with sepsis in a range of settings, including pre-hospital, primary care, ward settings and specialist areas. The module will allow practitioners to explore the pathophysiological processes of sepsis, understand the complexities of sepsis in a range of settings and evaluate the reliability and validity of current evidence to justify the management of interventions. Throughout the module case studies will be used to help practitioners translate theory to practice, which will include the recognition of sepsis causing critical illness and impacting on an illness trajectory, initial treatment, stabilisation, ongoing treatment, the impact of anti-microbial resistance, post-sepsis syndrome, change management and human factors.  

This on line 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 and potentially elements from the Intelligent Behaviour AnalyticsTM programme, or similar.  

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. 

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. 

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.  

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 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.