Adult Critical Care (Professional Practice)
The course aims to address the learning needs of healthcare professionals working in level two and three areas with clients within a variety of critical care specialities - including hepatology, cardiology and neurology - and provides exposure opportunities for practitioners involved in the investigation, treatment, management and care of clients with a variety of critical illnesses. Together this is intended to increase your skills (and associated theoretical knowledge) in order to best meet the needs of your clients and the service. This course gives you the opportunity to focus on current issues within this speciality and learn from dedicated, committed staff who are experts in their field.
What's covered in the course?
You'll learn more about assessing, planning, delivering and evaluating the specialist care of patients undergoing interventions and treatment for a variety of critical conditions, and educating and supporting these patients, relatives and fellow colleagues. The course will enable you to develop higher levels of judgment and decision making, and develop your understanding and expertise in your clinical areas using reflection and critical analysis.
Why Choose Us?
- The course is designed to be relevant to all health care professionals working in level two and level three areas.
- Our dedicated, committed staff are experts in their field; the course leader is a University lecturer with substantial clinical experience in critical care.
- There's a strong focus on current issues within the speciality and emphasis on the practical side with competencies.
- Continued support from staff both academically and practically whilst in university and on placement
- Each module has an associated "Moodle" based website which contains all module documentation, handouts, links to key documents and supplementary articles of interest.
- The course will equip you with the life-long learning skills, promoting the ability to learn independently after the course has finished.
New £10,609 postgraduate loans
If you are completing the MSc Professional Practice, you may be able to take advantage of the government’s plans to make loans of up to £10,609 available for postgraduate study.
This course is not open to International students
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Course Accreditations
Post Registration Education Provider of the Year Winner
UK or EU students
| Award | Start | Mode | Duration | Fees | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2019 | PT | TBC |
TBC |
International Students
Sorry, this course is not available to international students.
If you're unable to use the online form for any reason, you can complete our PDF application form and equal opportunities PDF form instead. The University reserves the right to increase fees in line with inflation based on the Retail Prices Index or to reflect changes in Government funding policies or changes agreed by Parliament up to a maximum of five per cent.
Course structure
You can choose to study this programme as a complete pathway award or as a standalone module, dependent on your individual need and the needs of your organisation. All programmes offer a convenient part-time format to fit around home and work commitments
Pathway awards in Adult Critical Care can lead to:
- Module only Professional Practice Level 6
- Module only Professional Practice Level 7
- BSc Professional Practice
- BSc (Hons) Professional Practice
- Grad Cert Professional Practice
- PG Cert Professional Practice
- PG Dip Professional Practice
- MSc Professional Practice
How to apply
Complete the online application form via the link above, including the name of the pathway or module you are enrolling onto.
Financial sponsorship
If you will be receiving financial sponsorship, to settle the tuition fees for this course please download and complete the financial support form. Once completed please upload it to your applicant portal.
Professional practice routes
Have a look at all of our Professional Practice Healthcare routes available.
Degree (Level 6)
In order to complete this route a student must successfully complete all the following CORE modules (totalling 100 credits): Year 1 Pathway Award – Exit Award: Grad Cert / BSc Professional Practice (Adult Critical Care) |
Year 2 Pathway Award (BSc Only) – Exit Award: BSc (Hons) Professional Practice (Adult Critical Care) |
In order to complete this route a student must successfully complete at least 20 credits from ‘Appendix A. List of Additional Optional Modules’ * for Year 2. *Any appropriate module (relevant to Pathway / Speciality) from University / Faculty portfolio as agreed with the Pathway Leader. |
Postgraduate (Level 7)
In order to complete this route a student must successfully complete all the following CORE modules (totalling 100 credits): Year 1 Pathway Award – Exit Award: PG Cert Professional Practice (Adult Critical Care) |
Year 2 Pathway Award - Exit Award: PG Dip Professional Practice (Adult Critical Care) |
In order to complete this route a student must successfully complete at least 20 credits from ‘Appendix A. List of Additional Optional Modules’ * for Year 2. *Any appropriate module (relevant to Pathway / Speciality) from University / Faculty portfolio as agreed with the Pathway Leader. |
MSc
Year 3 Pathway Award – Exit Award: MSc Professional Practice (Adult Critical Care) Option 1 In order to complete this route a student must successfully complete the following CORE module (totalling 60 credits): |
Option 2 In order to complete this route a student must successfully complete the following CORE module (totalling 40 credits): |
In order to complete this route a student must also successfully complete at least 20 credits from ‘Appendix A. List of Additional Optional Modules’ *. *Any appropriate module (relevant to Pathway / Speciality) from University / Faculty portfolio as agreed with the Pathway Leader. |
Degree (Level 6)
Pathway Level
Modules completed
Exit Awards
Postgraduate (Level 7)
Pathway Level
Modules completed
Exit Awards
Student Nursing Times Award Winner
Post Registration Education Provider of the Year
Our Facilities
We are constantly investing in our estate and are currently in the process of spending £260 million on new learning facilities.
We boast up-to-date, innovative facilities that simulate the real situations that medical staff may come across.
These resources are essential in offering students a hands-on introduction to health and social care practice. Much of our teaching is carried out within our state-of-the-art, £30m Seacole Building, which houses cutting-edge facilities.
Take a virtual tour of our skills suites at Seacole
In a sector where new techniques are constantly being discovered, we work hard to ensure that students learn using the most up-to-date equipment available. These include the only mock operating theatre in an English university and a cutting-edge radiography virtual clinical training facility, virtual ward and virtual case creator.
Virtual Case Creator
For pre-registration midwives, Virtual Case Creator software contains a range of scenarios to let you experience birthing situations and decide on appropriate interventions in a safe environment.
Hospital Ward
Our mock wards enable you to get a feel of what a ward is really like before you head out for your first placement. They contain ‘Sim Men’, which are demonstration dummies that develop ailments, allowing you to treat them as you would a real patient and build your confidence in reacting to the changing needs of patients.
The Hospital Ward can be adapted from a low care to high dependency care environment with the necessary monitoring equipment.
Part of the package is our SIM baby, SIM man and Mega code kid. There are also nursing manikins for fundamental skills teaching and various equipment to support essential skills teaching, such as blood pressure monitoring venepuncture and cannulation equipment.
Skills Practice and Clinical Enhancement facility
The SPACE (Skills Practice And Clinical Enhancement) learning facility lets you further practice the skills taught in class, at your own pace and convenience.
It is fully stocked with the specialist items and equipment needed for procedures such as taking blood pressure, giving an injection, abdominal examination of a pregnant woman and caring for ill babies in an incubator.
Biomedical Laboratories
We have recently installed new laboratory facilities to help you explore understand the scientific principles underpinning many of our courses. The physiology laboratory is equipped to help you learn about the way the human body works by performing investigative experiments. The biomedical science laboratory is undergoing an upgrade over the summer and will allow you to learn about anatomy, cellular processes, immunology and enzymology in a hands-on way that links directly to day-to-day health care.
Simulation Mannequins
We have several Simulation men (SIM men) and Simulation babies (SIM babies) which are leading edge, anatomically correct mannequins 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 SIM men and SIM baby mannequins are complete with software, which is used to replicate real symptoms, and are enhanced by the manipulation of for example blood pressure, pulse and heart rate for extra realism. SIM Man can also “talk” to the students which adds another dimension to their use in teaching clinical skills and in simulation exercises.
Mary Seacole Library
The Seacole library, based at City South Campus, is one of the UK's largest specialist health education libraries. The state-of-the art facility offers an extensive range of range of information and reference materials set out in a relaxing environment, conducive to studying. There are comfortable seating areas, group study areas, a silent study area and private study rooms.
The Seacole building houses a large open access IT Suite which comprises of 96 PCs, full colour printers, photocopiers and scanners. 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.
The IT Suite offers extended opening hours and is supported by a specialist Open Access Assistant during term time. In addition to the open access PCs within the IT Suite, there are 12 networked student PCs available within Seacole library.
Jane Leaver
Senior Lecturer/Programme Leader
Jane trained in London at Great Ormond Street and Charring Cross Hospitals and Qualified in 1985 as a paediatric and an adult nurse. She has worked in the field of burns and plastic surgery nursing for over 20 years. She has worked on paediatric burn units both abroad in Australia and Canada as well as in the UK.
She joined the faculty of Health in 2000 as a lecturer practitioner in Burns and Plastic Surgery and has maintained close clinical working links with Birmingham Children’s Hospital and Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham. Currently Jane is pathway leader for the Burns and Plastic Surgery awards on the Professional Practice Programme. She is also the deputy programme leader for the PG Cert in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (Health and Social Care/NMC Teacher).
She is currently the lead nurse for the Midlands Burn Operational Delivery Network, a role that she has been undertaking since the Network formed in 2008. She is also an executive committee member of the British Burns Association and is closely involved with the Emergency Management of Severe Burns Course.
Jane is passionate about nursing and improving care for patients, particularly those with burn injuries. Her clinical involvement enables her to maintain clinical credibility and enhance the teaching and learning for her students.
Enquiries
For any enquiries about this course please contact the course leader, Lorraine Marsons on:
- Tel: +44 (0)121 331 6106
- Email: lorraine.marsons@bcu.ac.uk
Professional Navigator
The Professional Practice Programme consists of a selection of modules that can be studied on their own or as part of an award. For help in deciding which modules to study or your outcome award please contact our Professional Navigators on navigator@bcu.ac.uk
Professional practice routes
Have a look at all of our Professional Practice Healthcare routes available.