Health and Social Care - CertHE / FdSc / Module

This module is aimed at supporting and enabling you to develop as a critical, reflective and independent thinker with the knowledge, skills and confidence required to achieve your potential as a paraprofessional worker. In order to effect change at a local level, you need to demonstrate the ability to consider an area of your practice, explore the appropriate evidence and present your findings to your peers and managers in a logical and balanced way. This module aims to give you this opportunity, whilst potentially benefiting your own area of practice.

This module is aimed at supporting and enabling you to develop as a critical, reflective and independent thinker with the knowledge, skills and confidence required to achieve your potential as a paraprofessional worker.

The teaching and learning approaches are designed to maximise the benefits of sharing knowledge and expertise in the classroom. Lecturers will facilitate the integration of theory and practice throughout the module. You will also be encouraged to use information technologies as potential sources of knowledge and learning, as well as developing an e-portfolio. This will be achieved through a blended learning method comprising of face to face teaching, group work, presentations, tutorials and e-learning through the Moodle VLE platform.

This module has been designed to be flexible and practice-led. You will have the opportunity to develop skills of enquiry, reflection and problem solving. A blended learning approach is taken (incorporating classroom, e-learning via Moodle [Virtual Learning Environment platform] and work-based activities) in line with the university’s learning and teaching strategy. You will be encouraged to share practice experiences with your fellow students, as well as engaging in both directed and self-directed learning activities. You will be an active partner in your own learning and development and in return you will be offered tutorial support, by way of regular feedback and feedforward aimed at developing your academic skills. This will also allow you the opportunity to discuss your progress with the module team.

This module aims to further enhance your skills and knowledge of practice through reflection and analysis of your own role, including the exploration of evidence based research and literature. The module is designed to follow on from your level four Knowledge Skills And Assessment In Children’s Healthcare module and will advance your knowledge, skills, critical analysis and clinical decision making. There will be a strong focus on the wider context of your role including safeguarding, understanding families in stress and the legal and ethical principles underpinning children’s healthcare. As with the level 4, you will practise a range of clinical skills underpinned by analysis of current evidence based practice. You will explore and debate factors affecting the quality of care delivery and identify strategies to support the enhancement of infants’ children, young people and families’ healthcare experience within the context of your own organisation.

This module aims to provide you with the opportunity to develop the core knowledge and skills necessary to work in the area of wound management. You will be introduced to the concepts of wound management and how they relate to your role as a trainee assistant practitioner.

When you have successfully completed this module you will have a more in-depth understanding of the anatomy and physiology of wound healing as well as developed your knowledge and skills in relation to wound assessment and treatment.

The aim of this module is to facilitate in-depth learning and knowledge of a specific area of your practice. You will be expected to choose an area of your practice that you would like to investigate in more detail, in negotiation with your workplace and module tutor. You will examine the research that has been written about your chosen subject and present your findings as a poster to your tutor and peers.

The aim of this module is to you gain understanding of health inequalities. It will enable you to apply some sociological theory to gain understanding of the nature of contemporary society and its influences on the perception of health and ill health. You will explore how society is structured in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, social class, family and households, and its impact on health and wellbeing. You will consider current research addressing health inequalities and government initiatives in response to this.

This module has been designed to help you develop skills to meet the needs of people with learning disabilities, especially those diagnosed as being within the autistic spectrum. Autism is a spectrum of conditions characterised by social, communicative, sensory-motor and cognitive difficulties. The social and psychological consequences can be profound. Autism is a very much misunderstood condition that affects around 1% of the world’s population. Within the UK that amounts to 600,000 people, given a current UK population of around 60 million. If one takes into account the families of those on the spectrum, this figure of 600,000 is likely to become closer to 2.5 million. Consequently, many health and social care professionals are likely to engage with and provide support and care to those on the autism spectrum and their families in a wide range of community and hospital settings.

Successful completion of this level 5 module will support your development as a Maternity Support Worker aiming to facilitate, by extending your knowledge and skills within the sphere of the maternity support worker role in promoting health by assisting women and their families to make optimal health and lifestyle choices.

Successful completion of this level 5 module will support your development as a Maternity Support Worker enabling you to assist the midwife and mother with the transition to parenting

This module aims to support your development as a Maternity Support Worker for your role in assisting the midwife and parents, in promoting and facilitating the transition that women and men make when they become parents in a low risk setting, under the direction and supervision of the midwife.

The module provides students with the opportunity to acquire and develop the knowledge and skills required to safely administer medication in their workplace.

As work-based learning remains the very essence of the programme, you will have the opportunity to combine your previous experience with your newly acquired knowledge and apply this immediately into your practice. Collaboration between the University and work-based partners is fundamental to the programme.

The module aims to support you to gain an understanding of the theories that underpin nursing care across all fields of nursing including the code that directs the actions of registered nurses. You will also acquire and develop the knowledge and skills required to safely administer medication.

As work-based learning remains the very essence of the programme, you will have the opportunity to combine your previous experience with your newly acquired knowledge and apply this immediately into your practice. Collaboration between the University and work-based partners is fundamental to the programme.

Mental health care involves working with service users from diverse backgrounds with very varied needs. So, it is an area where your knowledge and skills will be tested and challenged. Completing this module will help you to meet those needs, provide evidence based and value based care that will enable you to function effectively as an Assistant Practitioner in a multidisciplinary care setting.

This module is designed to enhance your learning experience whilst undertaking the mental health pathway of the Foundation Degree. It will enable you to learn about the wider aspects of mental health care and the skills required from practitioners from a wide range of care settings. In this way you will be able to develop an understanding of the breadth of mental health care and the services that can be offered to service users to enhance your ability to work in a collaborative fashion with other mental health services. It will also assist you to become more flexible and adaptable in the care that you offer.

On successful completion of this Level 5 module, you will have satisfied the module objectives, which will be the completion of study and assessment of Plain Image Radiography of the Skeleton, Thorax, Abdomen and Skull/Face. This will enable you to be able to undertake the majority of Plain Image Radiography that you will encounter in your clinical career. Also, you will be able to undertake a number of procedures using fluoroscopic and mobile imaging modalities. This will be limited by the Scope of Practise that your Employer utilises.

This module is not discipline specific and may be studied by anyone who works, or has an interest, in the process of Imaging in one of the offered pathways. The teaching and learning methods will be based in a combination of modality experts discussing the range of uses of their modality and framework required to analyse a condition and the medical management involved. A critique (analysis of the positive and/or negative viewpoints) of Imaging modalities will be a central part of the module, but that must be played against the needs of the service-user and their carers.

This module is appropriate for you if you are an Assistant Practitioner who is working in a breast imaging department and are already competent in performing the standard routine mammographic imaging of the breast i.e./ the Cranio-Caudal (CC) and Medio-Lateral Oblique (MLO) projections of the breast. Studying this level 5 module will give you the opportunity to acquire further skills and underpinning knowledge to enable you to produce modified or supplementary images of the breast as required by your role within your organisation and operating within the scope of practice of an Assistant Practitioner. You will be responsible for your own learning, and will reflect on your clinical experience during your academic studies, and similarly will apply knowledge to practice which will involve provision of effective care to a diverse range of service users from a range of cultural backgrounds.

This module is not discipline specific and may be studied by anyone who works, or has an interest, in the process of Imaging in one of the offered pathways. The teaching and learning methods will be based in a combination of modality experts discussing the range of uses of their modality and framework required to analyse a condition and the medical management involved. A critique (analysis of the positive and/or negative viewpoints) of Imaging modalities will be a central part of the module, but that must be played against the needs of the service-user and their carers.

Successful completion of this level 5 module will build on the knowledge and skills gained from prior completion of the level 4 module Knowledge, Skills and Assessment in Maternity Care, extending your understanding of more advanced midwifery care in your role as a maternity support worker.

Successful completion of this level 5 module will support your development as a Maternity Support Worker enabling you to assist the midwife and mother with the transition to parenting

This module aims to support your development as a Maternity Support Worker for your role in assisting the midwife and parents, in promoting and facilitating the transition that women and men make when they become parents in a low risk setting, under the direction and supervision of the midwife.

In your first year of the FdSc Health and Social Care programme you studied the fundamental principles of perioperative practice and identified how your role as a prospective Assistant Theatre Practitioner (Surgical Care Support) contributes to and functions within the multidisciplinary team. This module allows you to develop the knowledge and skills you acquired in the first year with clear links to other second year modules and enables you to critically explore the range of patient pathways within your specialist area of practice, to ensure you fully understand the patient journey and how practice can be adjusted to reflect patient’s individual needs.

This module encourages you to develop an understanding of how perioperative practice is influenced by the contemporary evidence base and changing local, national and international health demands. As work-based learning remains the very essence of the programme, you will have the opportunity to combine your previous experience with your newly acquired knowledge and apply this immediately into your practice. Collaboration between the University and work-based partners is fundamental to the programme.

This module has been designed to help you develop skills to meet the health needs of people with learning disabilities, especially those with a profound and multiple learning disability.

It aims to provide a grounding to help you develop skills to meet the health needs of people with learning disabilities. The development of these clinical skills will provide the support that people with learning disabilities may require in order to have a good quality of life.

This module has been designed to help you develop skills to meet the needs of people with learning disabilities, especially those diagnosed as being within the autistic spectrum. Autism is a spectrum of conditions characterised by social, communicative, sensory-motor and cognitive difficulties. The social and psychological consequences can be profound. Autism is a very much misunderstood condition that affects around 1% of the world’s population. Within the UK that amounts to 600,000 people, given a current UK population of around 60 million. If one takes into account the families of those on the spectrum, this figure of 600,000 is likely to become closer to 2.5 million. Consequently, many health and social care professionals are likely to engage with and provide support and care to those on the autism spectrum and their families in a wide range of community and hospital settings.

The aim of this module is to enable you to consolidate and further develop the personal and professional knowledge and skills that are necessary to deliver high quality health and social care.

This module focuses on helping you to develop new and existing skills and knowledge of the academic skills essential to achieve your learning goals in Higher Education. The module also concentrates on your existing clinical knowledge and skills and examines the role of the 6 C’s principles of effective care delivery (Cummings, 2012). Throughout the module you will be given the opportunity to reflect on your existing knowledge and skills, and identify areas in both your academic and clinical practice that you want to develop.

An appreciation of the principles of Anatomy and Physiology plays a central role in the understanding of the workings of the human body. This module will provide an awareness of key physiological systems ensuring you develop an ability to demonstrate the interplay of such systems to maintain the body in homoeostatic balance. This module will also aim to foster recognition of the importance of the underpinning theory that dictates clinical practise. For example enabling you to appreciate the critical awareness of blood pressure and linking the role of the cardiovascular and renal systems to control blood pressure.

This module is appropriate for Trainee Assistant Practitioners who are working in a Breast Imaging Department and will be undertaking the standard routine mammographic imaging of the breast. You will be responsible for your own learning, and will reflect on your clinical experience during your academic studies, and similarly will apply knowledge to practice which will involve provision of effective care to a diverse range of service users from a range of cultural backgrounds.

This module is essential to enable your understanding of the theory and practical applications of physics in the context of radiography or radiotherapy. Radiation physics and the safe and legal use of ionising radiation is an essential aspect of the radiation disciplines. It involves the underlying principles of the nature of matter and associated principles and how that relates to radiation production and attenuation its application to imaging and therapeutic modalities.