Neonatal Critical Care (Professional Practice)

This module has been developed to prepare knowledgeable, critical thinking, proactive, professional practitioners who are fit to meet the challenging demands of modern health care in the global area. Neonatal practitioners provide care for an extremely vulnerable population. Working with these babies, Nurses need to undertake accredited training appropriate to a Qualification in Speciality level (DH 2009) in a neonatal setting. This has to be done with an eye on the future as ‘Well organised, effective and sensitive care can make a lifelong difference to premature and sick newborn babies and their families’ (DH 2009 pge 9) This care needs to be provided by practitioners who are encouraged to refresh their skills and keep updated. A partnership approach is taken with practice areas in helping you achieve all learning outcomes.

This module aims to provide you with the ability to construct and evaluate key clinical issues that are essential on your educational neonatal journey. By doing this you will be able to prepare, manage and assess aspects of critical care by having an in depth knowledge of physiology and have the ability to apply this to the care that you give the babies in your care and their families. The ability of being able to construct a poster and cope with answering questions will give you the future confidence to prepare and present a poster at local and national conferences. This process will be supported by your time in university and your continuing independent study.

This module aims to provide you with the ability to construct and evaluate key clinical issues that are essential on your educational neonatal journey. By doing this you will be able to prepare, manage and assess aspects of critical care by having an in depth knowledge of physiology and have the ability to apply this to the care that you give the babies in your care and their families. You will need to identify a suitable practice mentor for the duration of the module to assess the clinical skills element of the module.

This module is for all healthcare practitioners if you want to enhance your understanding of evidence based practice to help improve your patient/client/service-user care. The aims of the module are to develop both your understanding of the importance of best evidence in practice, and your ability to locate, evaluate, and use best evidence in developing aspects of practice.

Good reasons to study Evidence-Based Practice: Clinical practice does not remain static but changes frequently. As a healthcare practitioner you must be able to justify and rationalise your practice to ensure quality care is provide and maintained. To ensure best practice is sustained you, as a practitioner, need to understand the concepts of evidence based practice and how to apply these concepts to your area of practice.

This module is can also be taken as a standalone credit bearing course

This module is aimed at healthcare practitioners who wish to negotiate learning of a bespoke topic. Under the guidance of facilitators, you will be able to direct your learning and identify relevant learning opportunities that you feel enable you to learn more about a specific field of study.

The subject area within this module is student led with guidance and facilitation from designated academic and practice support. You will identify an area of study that you would like to critically review and evaluate and which promotes your clinical development. A significant proportion of the module is based around negotiation with academic and clinical facilitators to identify extended areas of study and opportunities that are possible to enhance your progression towards completion of the study.

This module is can also be taken as a standalone credit bearing course

• Choose from a range of CPD modules available

This module has been developed to prepare knowledgeable, critical thinking, proactive, professional practitioners who are fit to meet the challenging demands of modern health care in the global area. Neonatal practitioners provide care for an extremely vulnerable population. Working with these babies, Nurses need to undertake accredited training appropriate to a Qualification in Speciality level (DH 2009) in a neonatal setting. This has to be done with an eye on the future as ‘Well organised, effective and sensitive care can make a lifelong difference to premature and sick newborn babies and their families’ (DH 2009 page 9). This care needs to be provided by practitioners who are encouraged to refresh their skills and keep updated. A partnership approach is taken with practice areas in helping you achieve all learning outcomes.

This module aims to provide you with the ability to construct and evaluate key clinical issues that are essential on your educational neonatal journey. By doing this you will be able to prepare, manage and assess aspects of critical care by having an in depth knowledge of physiology and have the ability to apply this to the care that you give the babies in your care and their families. The ability of being able to construct a poster and cope with answering questions will give you the future confidence to prepare and present a poster at local and national conferences with deeper understandings provided by the reading and critically evaluating education texts and literature. This process will be supported by your time in university and your continuing independent study.

Nursing is now a graduate profession and the need for post graduate study is a necessity for those of you who wish to continue with their studies at a higher level, requiring a clear career pathway structure. Therefore this module provides you with the opportunity to gain your specialist qualification at level 7, with an award structure that will encourage study up to a full Master’s degree. This will also provide evidence for your NMC updates. Your career progression is supported while enabling networking and liaison with your peers at level 6. This is very important as interaction between colleagues from different neonatal units and alternative networks is essential for the extending of good practice.

This module aims to provide you with the ability to construct and evaluate key clinical issues that are essential on your educational neonatal journey. By doing this you will be able to prepare, manage and assess aspects of critical care by having an in depth knowledge of physiology and have the ability to apply this to the care that you give the babies in your care and their families. You will need to identify a suitable practice mentor for the duration of the module to assess the clinical skills element of the module.

This module specifically addresses the broader programme aims related to “pursuing excellence” and “practice-led, knowledge applied” through a flexible provision that encourages students to develop their research ideas, enabling those on various Health MSc programmes to satisfy their individual learning needs, whilst contributing to their area of study.

This module is can also be taken as a standalone credit bearing course

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 is can also be taken as a standalone credit bearing course

• Choose from a range of CPD modules available

This triple module forms the final bridge between the award of a Postgraduate Diploma and a Health MSc related to a named award. It provides the student with the opportunity to complete a piece of work around a chosen topic in order to demonstrate competence in the planning, execution, analysis and evaluation of a Research Project, a Systematic Review or Project Management. It involves 600 hours of study. The focus is on facilitating the student's independent, critical study in their academic discipline or area of professional practice. It will also serve those who wish to embark on Doctoral studies in the future.

This double module provides the student with the opportunity to complete a piece of work around a chosen topic in order to demonstrate competence in the planning, execution, analysis and evaluation of a Research Project, a Systematic Review or Project Management. It involves 400 hours of study. The focus is on facilitating the student's independent, critical study in their academic discipline or area of professional practice. It will also serve those who wish to embark on Doctoral studies in the future.

• Choose from a range of CPD modules available