Professional Practice - Module
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The Professional Practice Framework is designed to allow healthcare professionals to choose their own path, by cherry picking the core modules, area of specialisation and optional modules that suit their needs and areas of interest. The modules shown here may be studied for standalone academic credits or selected as optional choices within clinical pathway awards....
- Level CPD
- Study mode Short Course
- Location Online Learning
- Award Module
- Start date April 2024
- Fees View course fees
- School School of Nursing and Midwifery
- Faculty Faculty of Health, Education and Life Sciences
This course is:
Open to International Students
Overview
The Professional Practice Framework is designed to allow healthcare professionals to choose their own path, by cherry picking the core modules, area of specialisation and optional modules that suit their needs and areas of interest. The modules shown here may be studied for standalone academic credits or selected as optional choices within clinical pathway awards. It is important to agree an optional choice with your clinical pathway award lead.
What's covered in this course?
If you have already qualified as a healthcare professional, such as a nurse or operating department practitioner, and you’re looking to progress and/or specialise in your career, then the Professional Practice Framework is designed to help facilitate that. You can choose from a huge range of modules and perhaps gradually look to build up a qualification. Alternatively, you might have a specific pathway, such as cardiac care, already in mind.
The type of award you receive upon graduating depends on both your existing qualifications, and the combination of modules and pathways that you choose to study.
The qualifications available are:
- 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
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.
Award: Module
Starting: Apr 2024
- Mode
- Duration
- Fees
- Short Course
- Variable
- £783 per 20 credit module
International 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.
Award: Module
Starting: Apr 2024
- Mode
- Duration
- Fees
- Short Course
- Variable
- £783 per 20 credit module
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.
How to apply
Complete the online application form via the link above, including the name of the module you are enrolling onto.
Entry requirements
This course is suitable for Registered Heath Care professionals e.g. midwives, nurses, paramedics, speech and language therapists, radiographers, physiotherapists, doctors (not exhaustive).
Course in Depth
Level 6
Acute Cardiac Conditions are commonly found in a range of healthcare settings and remain a major cause of mortality and morbidity. This module is aimed at Health Care Practitioners who provide care and manage patients with Acute Cardiac Conditions in their daily practice, often, although not exclusively within specialist settings. The module will provide opportunities for learners to develop an in-depth knowledge of the underlying physiology of a number of conditions, and critically explore evidence based, best practice management of Acute Cardiac Conditions.
This module aligns with the Professional Practice Programme philosophy and is 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 in line with the University’s learning and teaching strategy. You will be encouraged to think critically and 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 receive regular feedback and feedforward aimed at developing your academic skills, with the opportunity to discuss your progress with the module team.
Dates:
22 and 29 November 2023
6 and 12 December 2023
10 and 17 January 2024
Times: 9:00am - 5.30pm
Application Deadline: 8 November 2023
Module Coordinator: Simon Dobbs
Welcome to the online distance learning ‘adolescence and mental health’ module. This level 6 distance learning online module examines the factors influencing the emotional and mental health during adolescence, the role of family, mental health, education, and social care and health services.
This module aims to provide you with a flexible, supportive, and theory-practice led framework of learning which intends to foster and develop your awareness and critical analysis of trauma, loss, and abuse and the immediate and longer-term effects this can have on the emotional and mental health of adolescents.
Adolescence is a key developmental period characterised by rapid physical, emotional, and social growth and increasing independence (Thompson et al.2012). Traumatic events, different forms of loss and abuse can have a significant and detrimental impact on the psychological and mental health and wellbeing of young people. Trauma, loss, and abuse in childhood and adolescence can contribute to young people presenting with features of post -traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety, emotional dysregulation, eating disorders, self-harm, suicidal ideation, early onset psychosis, and other mental health diagnoses (DH 2011; 2015; DSM-V).
Dates:
29 November 2023
6, 13 and 20 December 2023
3 and 10 January 2024
Times: 9:00am - 4:00pm
Application Deadline: 29 October 2023
Module Coordinator: Paul Millwood
6 Module Overview The Adult Critical Care Transfer module is designed to equip you with the ability to critically analyse the concepts and principles of critical care transfer to effect a safe and efficient transfer, both inter and intra-hospital, of the critically ill adult. This module will equip you with the knowledge and skills to understand what makes a safe and effective transfer of a critically ill adult enabling you to manage such transfers in the best way for the individual patient in conjunction with the multidisciplinary team.
The Adult Critical Care Transfer module has been designed to align with the Professional Practice Pathway or be accessed as a standalone module. The module will predominantly be delivered online with 2 practical days. The online element will consist of timetabled sessions delivered via MS Teams and Moodle resources and activities you will complete as self-directed study. The practical days will be on consecutive days at BCU and will be scenario-based focussing on the practical skills required when transferring critically ill adults. You will be encouraged to engage in peer learning and reflect on your shared experience. You should be working in a role that requires you to undertake transfers of critically ill adults as you will be required to reflect on your practice.
Dates:
8, 15 and 22 May 2024 (online)
5 and 6 June 2024 (face to face)
12 June 2024 (online)
Times: 9:00am - 4.30pm
Application deadline: 24 April 2024
Module Coordinator: Victoria Winters and Chris Carter
This module is designed for health care practitioners who wish to expand their knowledge on the biology of Cancer and apply this to a case study from presentation through to diagnosis.
It is vital that those who work with patients with cancer are supported with appropriate education and reflective practice, to drive up the quality of care for these patients. This module provides you with the opportunity to learn about the principles of Cancer biology by applying it to a specific malignant condition.
By being able to understand this better, it will lead to:
- Advising patients appropriately
- Enable improved evidence-based discussions and practice
- Allow Cancer pathways to be redesigned and patients’ care to be tailored to their health requirements.
This module can also be studied as a standalone module. This module is delivered completely online incorporating course teaching material and a variety of learning activities, such as online lectures, forums, quizzes and workshops. You are expected to participate and engage with the module material which is available on the module MOODLE site. The module assessment is an in-person presentation. Tutorial support will be offered via video tutorials, chat forums, email and telephone.
Dates: Taught Online from 2 October 2023 - 10 November 2023
Times: N/A
Application Deadline: 18 September 2023
Module Coordinator: Alison Simons
This module aligns with the Professional Practice Programme philosophy and is designed to be flexible, and practice led. You will have the opportunity to develop skills of enquiry, reflection and problem solving, as well as being encouraged to think critically and 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 receive regular feedback and feedforward support, as well as individual and group tutorial support aimed at developing your academic skills; and have the opportunities to discuss your progress with the module team.
The module aims to provide you with a critical awareness of leadership, change management and innovation concepts and theories, which can be applied in practice and contribute to personal and professional development of health and social care professionals. You will also learn the importance of collaborative team working to improve patient outcomes and foster high standards of patient care and service delivery, through the application of core leadership principles and structured change management processes. This will enable you to specifically enhance your ability to be proactive, by providing effective leadership, which is considered particularly important for all practitioners at all levels within the health and social care sector.
Dates: 11 March - 5 April 2024 (online)
Times: N/A
Application deadline: 25 February 2024
Module Coordinator: Shirley Kirnon
This module aims to enhance your knowledge base of applied anatomy and physiology, in relation to body systems and explore the pathophysiological processes that may affect these systems. This module aims to provide you with the skills, in-depth applied physiology, and knowledge required to apply safe high quality bedside care to the critically ill patient and their family. The focus of the module is to provide opportunities for you to interpret the significance of altered pathophysiological mechanisms, pathophysiology of critical illness and its implications will be explored within the context of patient assessment and interpretation of clinical symptoms.
The module will enable registered nurses to gain to the knowledge and skills to assess, implement and evaluate patient centred care in order to deliver high quality, safe care to critically ill patients. The module aims to bridge the theory practice gap by using partnership approach to help embed theoretical concepts into clinical practice. It has been developed and will be delivery by a combined team of academic and senior clinically credible practitioners within the speciality of critical care in the UK and internationally.
Dates:
9, 14, 23 and 30 May 2024
6 and 30 June 2024
Times: 09.00am - 4.30pm
Application deadline: 25 April 2024
Module Coordinator: Chris Carter
This module is predominantly designed for graduate, experienced health care practitioners caring for patients receiving stem cell transplants for haematological malignancies, who wish to expand their knowledge and practice in leading service provision within stem cell transplantation.
This module provides you with the opportunity to learn about service provision for stem cell transplant patients and to foster innovative approaches to enhance care delivery within your service. Stem cell transplants are an integral part of the treatment of some patients with haematological and other disorders in both paediatric and adult settings. This is a very specialised and complex form of treatment which requires specialist expertise and knowledge to care for this group of patients.
The module provides you with the opportunity to learn about the innovation and leading practice in caring for patients receiving a stem cell transplant It is delivered completely online incorporating course teaching material and a variety of learning activities, that students are expected to participate and engage with.
Dates: Taught online 13 May 2024 - 21 June 2024
Times: N/A
Application deadline: 29 April 2024
Module Coordinator: Alison Simons
This online distance learning level 6 module explores the multiplicity of individual, family, and social factors which influence childhood mental health and developmental wellbeing.
This module aims to provide you with a flexible, supportive, and theory-practice led framework of learning which intends to foster and develop your awareness and critical analysis of a range of perinatal mental health, child development and attachment theories, safeguarding, and multi-agency service provision for children and families.
Social, educational, political and statutory agencies have recognised and sought to ensure integrated statutory and non-statutory services identify and address the complex needs of vulnerable and abused children, as well as providing responsive and innovative programmes of care and intervention (Crouch et al. 2019; DfE 2022).
Dates:
20 and 27 September 2023
4, 11, 18 and 25 October 2023
Times: 9:00am - 4:00pm
Application Deadline: 20 August 2023
Module Coordinator: Paul Millwood
Please note, this module is for MoD students only.
This module aligns with the Professional Practice Programme philosophy and is 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 in line with the University’s learning and teaching strategy. You will be encouraged to think critically and 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 receive regular feedback and feedforward aimed at developing your academic skills and have the opportunity to discuss your progress with the module team.
Coaching and supervising and the themes surrounding the roles are vital for all personnel within the healthcare arena. This is underpinned by an integrated approach that adheres to frameworks and policy, set out by organisations and regulatory bodies within healthcare. The diverse nature of healthcare environments requires individuals to have a broad-based knowledge, skills and attitudes to manage healthcare services successfully.
Dates:
Occ A:
4, 11 and 18 October 2023 (online),
8 and 9 November 2023 (face to face)
15 November 2023 (online)
Occ B:
24 and 31 January, 7 February 2024 (online)
21 and 22 February 2024 (face to face)
28 February 2024 (online)
Times: 9:00am - 4.30pm
Application deadline:
Occ A: 20 September 2023
Occ B: 10 January 2024
Module Coordinator: Victoria Winters
The module has been designed for registered healthcare professionals working in emergency and critical care settings or preparing to work overseas. This module is open to both UK and international students and can be studied as either a stand-alone module or as part of the International Perspectives in Emergency and Critical Care Pathway.
This module spans the continuum of emergency and critical care from a global, regional and national perspective. The module content has been aligned to international standards such as the World Health Organization, United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the World Federation of Critical Care Nursing education standards. The inter-professional and international elements of the module will facilitate professional discussion, with each student offering differing perspectives based upon their own clinical experiences. Practitioners will critically examine their role in emergency and critical care and therefore be able to deliver high quality, ethically justifiable care within the parameters of international guidelines.
Dates:
16, 23 and 30 January 2024
6, 13, 20 and 27 February 2024
5, 12, 19 and 26 March 2024
2 April 2024
Times: 9:00am - 4.30pm
Application deadline: 2 January 2024
Module Coordinator: Chris Carter
The ‘Core Concepts in Nursing the Critical Ill Adult’ module is one of two core modules of the Adult Critical Care Pathway. Completion of the core 60-credits at level 6, will enable you to achieve a named award in Adult Critical Care and result in you achieving a standardised and transferable critical care post registration academic award (CC3N, 2015). The module content has been aligned to the National Standards for Critical Care Nurse Education (CC3N, 2016), the National Competency Framework for Registered Nurses in Adult Critical Care (CC3N, 2015) and the General Provision of Intensive Care standards (FICM, 2022).
This module spans the critical care patient pathway, from the onset of critical illness through to rehabilitation and discharge. This encompasses assessment, planning, management and evaluation of interventions for critically ill patients with organ dysfunction, enabling you to gain the knowledge and skills to deliver evidence-based clinical management for the critically ill patient. The content will facilitate development of a deep and systematic understanding of the complexities of critical illness. You will be expected to evaluate the reliability and validity of key evidence to justify nursing interventions, also to investigate and evaluate the professional, ethical, and legal issues within a critical care environment. Within each subject area you will explore the relevant underpinning theories, critically reflecting on the application of theory to clinical practice, thereby bridging the theory practice gap. The leadership and management elements will enable you to reflect on current and future issues, facilitating an increased understanding on the impact of professional issues on critical care.
Dates: September 2024
Times: 9:00am - 4.30pm
Application deadline: TBC
Module Coordinator: Chris Carter
The cost of wounds to the NHS has been estimated to be £8.3 billion annually. In order to reduce long term costs and improve wound healing rates use of advanced skills in wound care need to become part of the wound care practitioner’s tool kit. The module aims to provide you with the opportunity to critically reflect on the evidence-based principles underpinning a variety of debridement methods and to explore the literature that currently guides practice.
This module will enable the healthcare practitioner to explore the techniques and consider the support and requirements needed to adopt them into practice. This module is an optional level 6 Tissue Viability pathway module which can also be studied as a stand-alone module.
Dates:
2 November and 22 or 23 November 2023 (cohort splits in two for practical days)
Self-directed learning weeks w/c 6, 13 and 27 November 2023 and 4 December 2023
Times: 9:00am - 5:00pm
Application Deadline: 18 October 2023
Module Coordinator: Joanna Swan
This module aligns with the Professional Practice Programme philosophy and is 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 in line with the University’s learning and teaching strategy. You will be encouraged to think critically and 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 receive regular feedback and feedforward aimed at developing your academic skills and have the opportunity to discuss your progress with the module team.
Defence Medical Services (DMS) personnel are required to deliver or support the provision of healthcare worldwide, in peacetime and during conflict. This is underpinned by an integrated approach that adheres to UK regulatory frameworks and Governance principles. Healthcare Governance is an integral part of medical planning, process and sustainability for the delivery of healthcare by DMS. The diverse nature of the DMS operational and firm base environments requires individuals to have a broad-based set of knowledge, skills and attitudes to manage healthcare services successfully.
Dates:
20 and 27 September 2023
4, 11 and 25 October 2023 (online)
Times: 9:00am - 4.30pm
Application deadline: 6 September 2023
Module Coordinator: Peter Royal
The most common mental health problems that affect older people are often known as the ‘3Ds’. Depression, dementia and delirium disproportionately impact on the health of older people and challenge practitioners to respond to the complexity of individuals’ co-morbidities. Effective assessments, interventions and support facilitate self-management and empowerment of service users and family carers to improve holistic well-being. In this module you will explore current thinking and practice with a view to developing alternative approaches and creative interventions, facilitating culture change and working in partnership with multi-disciplinary colleagues, patients, their families and carers to address difficulties and maximise well-being.
This module aligns with the Professional Practice Programme philosophy and is designed to be flexible and practice-led, developing knowledgeable practitioners who are able to provide excellent standards of care, based on a sound evidence and values base. You will have the opportunity to develop skills of enquiry, reflection and problem solving. A blended learning approach is taken (incorporating both classroom and online activities via Moodle) in line with the University’s learning and teaching strategy. You will be encouraged to think critically and 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 receive regular feedback and feedforward aimed at developing your academic skills, and have the opportunity to discuss your progress with the module team.
This module is not running in 2023/24.
This module allows you, a registered nurse or ODP, with a minimum of 12 months post-qualifying experience, to respond to the demands of perioperative practice. The role of the Surgical First Assistant is now widely accepted in perioperative practice within the NHS and Independent Healthcare Sector. As a registered practitioner, the Surgical First Assistant provides continuous competent and dedicated skilled assistance under the direct supervision of the operating surgeon throughout the procedure whilst not performing any form of surgical intervention (PCC 2012).
You will build upon your prior knowledge, skills and experience to develop in the role of the surgical first assistant and work safely and effectively as a member of the wider surgical team. You will mature as a critical thinking practitioner as you prepare to provide competent and skilled surgical assistance to the operating surgeon under supervision.
This module aligns with the Professional Practice Programme philosophy and is 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 sessions, skills workshops and online activities via Moodle in line with the university’s learning and teaching strategy.
Dates:
Occ A: 14 Feb 2024
Occ B: 8 May 2024
(online after 1st study day)
Times: 9:00am - 4:00pm
Application deadline:
Occ A: 15 Dec 2023
Occ B: 1 April 2024
Module Coordinator: Julie Quick
Cardiac monitoring and electrocardiogram (ECG) interpretation is a core component in the care and management of patients with Cardiac (and other) illnesses. This module is aimed at Health Care Practitioners who utilise Cardiac monitoring and ECG interpretation in their day to day practice. The module will provide opportunities for learners to develop an in-depth knowledge of the ECG, enhance their knowledge and decision-making skills in relation to arrhythmia and conduction disturbance recognition and evidence based best practice management.
This module aligns with the Professional Practice Programme philosophy and is 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 in line with the university’s learning and teaching strategy. You will be encouraged to think critically and 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 receive regular feedback and feedforward aimed at developing your academic skills and have the opportunity to discuss your progress with the module team.
Dates:
11, 18 and 25 October 2023
1, 8 and 15 November 2023
Times: 9:00am - 5.30pm
Application deadline: 27 September 2023
Module Coordinator: Simon Dobbs
Academic skills are the foundational building blocks we use to successfully communicate our knowledge, demonstrate our understanding, and advance our thinking on any topic. This module is aimed at students who wish to develop these essential skills in order to improve their capabilities and excel at degree level study. You will be facilitated to develop the independent learning and academic scholarship required to support your continuing personal and professional development. This module is tailored to your needs and delivered by nurturing and caring experts in academic skills.
This module will explore, practice and develop the essential skills required for successful degree level study. Structured around skills related to approaching, preparing for, planning, drafting, editing and delivering academic work, this module will aid the development of skills such as critical thinking, academic writing, presentations, planning, editing and reflection. The module is flexible however, and the precise content is tailored to the needs of students. This approach involves students being active partners in their own development, in both directed and self-directed learning, on which you will receive regular feedback and opportunities to discuss progression with the module team, in order to optimise the development of your academic skills.
Dates:
Occ A: 11 September - 30 October 2023
Occ B: 8 January - 26 February 2024
(in person)
Occ A: 14 September - 2 November 2023
Occ B: 11 January - 29 February 2024
(online)
Times: 9:00am - 4.30pm
Application deadline:
Occ A (in person): 28 August 2023
Occ A (online): 31 August 2023
Occ B: 20 December 2023
Module Coordinator: Rebecca Gibbons and Mark Hetherington
This module will cover the fundamental aspects of neonatal care and will support the development of fundamental knowledge and skills for practice including the underpinning physiology. These post registration education pathways, in collaboration with service providers, allow for registered nurses working in neonatal units to become equipped with the specific knowledge and skills required to practice safely and effectively in this critical care area (BAPM, 2012). This module is also available to Registered Nurse Associates to develop their knowledge of fundamental neonatal care and conditions.
This module is one of the optional modules that makes up the Neonatal Critical Care Pathway and is designed to work in unison with the other modules in this pathway, to provide a firm base for quality neonatal care. On successful completion of three modules, you will receive 60 academic credits and a named award in Neonatal Care. This module can also be studied as module only.
Dates:
Occ A:
20 and 27 September 2023
4, 11, 18 and 25 October 2023
1, 8, 15 and 22 November 2023
Occ B:
30 November 2023
7, 14 and 1 December 2023
11, 18 and 25 January 2024
8 and 15 February 2024
Times: 9:00am - 4:30pm
Application Deadline:
Occ A: 6 September 2023
Occ B: 16 November 2023
Module Coordinator: Laura Maguire
The module is designed for registered practitioners who are looking to critically develop their knowledge and skill in health assessment of the individual patient. The module introduces and develops the skills required to undertaking a systematic holistic patient assessment. The module content is designed and delivered by lectures from different specialities to ensure the provision of comprehensive learning. This module strengthens the assessment skills of the clinician, underpinned by evidence-based knowledge.
As a theoretical module there are no compulsory practice-based competences, however it is expected that you will continue to practise, contextualise, and consolidate the learning in your practice setting after completion of the module. This module is not designed to prepare you for autonomous advanced practice but does provide the foundation on which to progress to independent non-medical prescribing training, the achievement of which is valued by employers in diverse health care domains.
Dates:
Occ A: 11, 18 and 25 September, 9, 16 and 23 October 2023
Occ B: 15, 22 and 29 January, 5, 19 and 26 February 2024
Occ C: 18 March, 8, 15, 22 and 29 April, 13 May 2024
Occ D: 10, 17 and 24 June, 1,8 and 15 July 2024
Times: 9.15am - 4.30pm
Application deadline:
Occ A: 28 August 2023
Occ B: 2 January 2024
Occ C: 4 March 2024
Occ D: 27 May 2024
Module Coordinator: Katie Tipple
The module is designed for registered practitioners who are looking to critically develop their knowledge and skill in health assessment of the individual patient. The module introduces and develops the skills required to undertaking a systematic holistic patient assessment.
The module content is designed and delivered by lecturers from different specialities to ensure the provision of comprehensive learning which intends to foster and develop your awareness and critical analysis of health assessment. As a theoretical module there are no compulsory practice-based competences, however it is expected that you will continue to practise, contextualise, and consolidate the learning in your practice setting after completion of the module.
This module is not designed to prepare you for autonomous advanced practice but does provide the foundation on which to progress to independent non-medical prescribing training, the achievement of which is valued by employers in diverse health care domains.
Dates: TBC
Times: Online
Application deadline: 2 January 2024
Module Coordinator: Kara Fereday
This module aims to facilitate the development of a safe and effective Clinical Endoscopist (CE), by equipping the student with the knowledge and skills to perform diagnostic upper gastro-intestinal endoscopy to a level appropriate for endoscopy practice, incorporating the professional attributes that underpin an advanced practice role.
This module aligns with the Professional Practice Programme philosophy and is 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 in line with the university’s learning and teaching strategy. You will be encouraged to think critically and 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 receive regular feedback and feedforward aimed at developing your academic skills and have the opportunity to discuss your progress with the module team.
Advances in the treatment and care of Cardiac Conditions, coupled with an aging population, has resulted in an increased incidence of a number of Long-Term Cardiac Conditions. This increase poses a number of challenges for healthcare providers and individual practitioners alike. Given these challenges this module is aimed at Health Care Practitioners who provide care and manage patients with these conditions in their daily practice, in a variety of clinical settings The module will provide opportunities for learners to develop an in-depth knowledge of the underlying physiology of a number of Long-Term Cardiac Conditions, and critically explore evidence based, best practice management of these conditions.
This module aligns with the Professional Practice Programme philosophy and is 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 in line with the University’s learning and teaching strategy. You will be encouraged to think critically and 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 receive regular feedback and feedforward aimed at developing your academic skills and have the opportunity to discuss your progress with the module team.
Dates:
31 January 2024
7, 14 and 21 February 2024
6 and 13 March 2024
Times: 9:00am - 5.30pm
Application Deadline: 17 January 2024
Module Coordinator: Simon Dobbs
This is one of two modules you can choose to study at level six which focus on enhancing care of adults who experience acute health deterioration. This module offers the opportunity to strengthen your ability to respond early and effectively to acute deterioration. It aims to help you identify appropriate clinical interventions that will have positive impact on health outcomes.
The early, effective management of acute health deterioration is a core skill required of many healthcare professionals. It can be a challenging skill to develop and maintain. The number of people living with one, two or more long term conditions is rapidly increasing in the UK (Kingston et al 2018). The population is also ageing (Office National Statistics 2020). With the polypharmacy that often also accompanies this, choosing treatment interventions in time and resource pressured situations, has become even more demanding. This module is focussed on responding to these challenges.
Dates:
15, 22 and 29 April 2024
13 and 20 May 2024
3 June 2024
Times: 09:00am - 5:00pm
Application deadline: 1 April 2024
Module Coordinator: Claire Perkins
This module is designed for health care practitioners who wish to expand their knowledge on the management of a patient with a haemato-oncology diagnosis and apply this to a case study from practice.
It is vital that those who work with patients with a haemato-oncology diagnosis are supported with appropriate education and reflective practice, to drive up the quality of care for these patients. This module provides you with the opportunity to learn about the management of a patient with a haemato-oncology diagnosis by applying it to a specific malignant condition.
By being able to understand this better, it will lead to:
- Advising patients appropriately
- Enable improved evidence-based discussions and practice
- Allow haemato-oncology pathways to be redesigned and patients’ care to be tailored to their health requirements.
Dates: Taught online from 8 January 2024 - 16 February 2024
Times: N/A
Application Deadline: 20 December 2023
Module Coordinator: Alison Simons
This module is designed for health care practitioners who wish to expand their knowledge on the management of a patient with a cancer diagnosis and apply this to a case study from practice.
It is vital that those who work with patients with cancer are supported with appropriate education and reflective practice, to drive up the quality of care for these patients. This module provides you with the opportunity to learn about the management of a patient with cancer by applying it to a specific malignant condition.
By being able to understand this better, it will lead to:
- Advising patients appropriately
- Enable improved evidence-based discussions and practice
- Allow Cancer pathways to be redesigned and patients’ care to be tailored to their health requirements.
Dates: Taught online from 19 February 2024 - 31 March 2024
Times: N/A
Application Deadline: 5 February 2024
Module Coordinator: Alison Simons
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 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. The module is therefore not reliant on classroom attendance and can be closely allied to learning within the workplace.
Dates: 7 November 2023 - 12 January 2024 (online plus one in person session)
Times: 10:00am - 12:00pm
Application deadline: 10 September 2023
Module Coordinator: Shirley Kirnon
Pressure ulcers are a significant cause of morbidity and mortality across all age groups. Treating pressure ulcers is 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 effective pressure ulcer prevention and treatment strategies.
The module aims to develop your understanding of the key concepts in pressure ulcer prevention and management. You will have the opportunity to critically reflect on the evidence-based principles underpinning pressure ulcer prevention and management and to explore the literature that currently guides practice. By fully engaging in this module, you will have the opportunity to develop your critical analysis skills and the skills necessary to foster lifelong learning within this challenging field.
Dates:
20 and 28 February 2024
13 and 27 March 2024
Self-directed learning weeks w/c 4 and 18 March 2024
Times: 9:00am - 5:00pm
Application Deadline: TBC
Module Coordinator: Joanna Swan
This is an optional module and delivered as an online distance learning module, focusing on the prevention, recognition and management of sepsis in a range of settings, including pre-hospital, primary care, ward settings and specialist areas.
This module aims to provide you with knowledge and skills to deliver evidence-based prevention, recognition and clinical management for a patient with sepsis in a range of settings. The module will enable you 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 used to justify the management of interventions. To help translate theory to practice, a series of case studies will be used, to identify the early recognition of sepsis causing critical illness and impacting on an illness process, initial treatment, stabilisation, ongoing treatment, and the impact of anti-microbial resistance, post-sepsis syndrome, change management and human factors.
Dates:
11, 18 and 25 October 2023
1, 8 and 15 November 2023
Times: TBC
Application deadline: 27 September 2023
Module Coordinator: Chris Carter
This module is aimed at post-registration healthcare professionals that wish to build upon prior knowledge, skills and experience that have been acquired in practice previously and develop your knowledge of anaesthetic care. It will enable you as a health care practitioner to develop your role, skills and management of anaesthetic care to a level capable of delivering care to patients with complex needs that may be undergoing elective, non-scheduled or emergency procedures.
The module will focus on the assessment, application and evaluation of care delivery for a range of perioperative patients including those with complex needs and diverse patient groups in anaesthetic phase of the perioperative environment. We will consider a range of clinical emergencies and how the deteriorating patient may present during the delivery of anesthesia, we will cover how the interpretation of a range of clinical data can aid with this recognition. This module will also allow you to develop competency within the technical and non-technical skills required to work as an anaesthetic practitioner under the supervision of a registered practitioner and further develop the relationships that you have formed in multidisciplinary teams within the anaesthetic setting to ensure the safety of the patient within a clinical practice setting.
Dates:
Occ A: starts 18 October 2023
Occ B: starts 17 April 2024
Times: 9:00am - 12.30pm
Application deadline:
Occ A: 4 October 2023
Occ B: 17 March 2024
Module Coordinator: Katie O'Connor
This module is part of the Professional Practice Programme. The module is intended for practitioners working in healthcare. The module aims to enhance the student’s knowledge and understanding of the key underpinning principles and practice of infection prevention and control, utilising legislative frameworks, national and local evidence based literature to enhance clinical practice and reduce healthcare associated infections, in an inter-professional healthcare climate.
This module aligns with the Professional Practice Programme philosophy and is 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 both classroom and online activities via Moodle) in line with the university’s learning and teaching strategy. You will be encouraged to think critically and 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 receive regular feedback and feedforward aimed at developing your academic skills, and have the opportunity to discuss your progress with the module team.
This module is only available for international students.
TBC
This module is designed for health care practitioners. Poor recording keeping by healthcare professions is a nationwide problem. The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Annual Fitness to Practice Reports constantly state that poor record keeping is in the top five complaints received by the NMC. Furthermore, the top two complaints - patient care and prescribing medicine - both encompass aspects of record keeping: further demonstrating the scale of the problem in the UK.
Recent public enquires have also highlighted the problem, e.g The Morecambe Bay Report, in particular, concluded that many of the failures of clinical care in the maternity unit were attributable to poor quality record keeping, including the retrospective completion of records, and inaccurate and interchangeable accounts. The aim of the module is to provide you with the fundamental knowledge and confidence to write professional records complying with both professional and legal requirements.
Dates: TBC
Times: TBC
Application deadline: TBC
Module Coordinator: TBC
Reflection and reflective practice continue to be an integral part of health, education and life science (HELS) undergraduate curriculum and subsequent professional practice. Reflection is perceived as integral to the development of the self within the HELS professions, and a notion that is fundamental to the development of emotional intelligence in nurses, allied healthcare and education practitioners. Therefore in-line with the Professional Practice framework philosophy this module through a mode of reflection is an optional module, situated within a flexible pathway that aims to meet the specific academic needs of individual practitioners.
A blended learning approach is taken in accord with the university’s learning and teaching strategy and the programme’s philosophy and aims. The module aims to provide you with the opportunity to critically reflect on and explore learning which has occurred through prior experience. The purpose of this module is to enable and support you to reflect in a written format to produce a piece of reflection that profiles’ learning that has occurred from prior experience. This piece can be marked against the assessment criteria, giving you a mark that will contribute towards your award classification, and recognition in the form of credits.
Dates: TBC
Times: TBC
Application deadline: TBC
Module Coordinator: Nicola Clarke
This module quality, how to measure, maintain and assess it, in relation to patient care and healthcare service provision. 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 quality and continuous improvement environment within the field of healthcare.
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 quality improvements in your workplace.
This module is only available for international students.
This is one of two modules you can choose to study at level six which focus on enhancing care of adults who experience acute health deterioration. This module offers the opportunity to strengthen your ability to recognise, assess and interpret physiological indicators of acute deterioration. It aims to help you confidently recognise early signs of physiological deterioration and articulate your concern effectively, to others.
The early recognition of deterioration is a core skill required of many healthcare professionals. It can be a challenging skill to develop and maintain. The number of people living with one, two or more long term conditions is rapidly increasing in the UK (Kingston et al 2018). The population is also ageing (Office National Statistics 2020). With the polypharmacy that often also accompanies this, interpretation of assessment data has become more complex. This module is focussed on responding to these challenges.
Dates:
Occ A:
29 September 2023
6, 13 and 20 October 2023
3 and 10 November 2023
Occ B:
5, 12, 19 and 26 January 2024
9 and 16 February 2024
Times: 9:00am - 5:00pm
Application deadline: 15 December 2023
Module Coordinator: Claire Perkins
This module is aimed at healthcare practitioners involved in the rehabilitation of individuals following critical illness, who may be working in critical care units, critical care outreach, ward settings and community areas e.g. district nurses, GPs and Practice Nurses.
Critically ill patients require highly skills and expert multidisciplinary teams to ensure best outcomes. The same approach is needed to support the rehabilitation of patients of all ages following discharge from critical care and hospital. Therefore, this module will allow practitioners to explore the individual needs of critically ill patients following discharge from the critical care unit, understand the complexities of rehabilitation in a range of settings and evaluate the current evidence relating to rehabilitation following critical illness. Individual patient narratives and a multi-disciplinary Faculty will provide different perspectives in order to help practitioners translate theory to practice.
Dates:
17, 24 and 31 January 2024
7 and 21 February 2024
Times: 9:00am - 4:00pm
Application deadline: 3 January 2024
Module Coordinator: Chris Carter
This module is designed for health care practitioners who administer Systemic Anti-Cancer drug therapy and/or who care for these patients whilst undergoing this treatment. Most patients with cancer will require systemic Anti-Cancer therapy (SACT). It is vital that those who work with patients with cancer are supported with appropriate education and reflective practice, to drive up the quality of care for these patients.
This module provides you with the opportunity to learn about the principles and holistic care of a patient receiving SACT.
By being able to understand this better, it will lead to:
- Administering SACT safely and effectively
- Advising patients appropriately
- Enable improved evidence-based discussions and practice
Dates: Taught online
Occ A:
13 November 2023 - 22 December 2023
Occ B:
2 April 2024 - 10 May 2024
Times: N/A
Application deadline:
Occ A: 30 October 2023
Occ B: 19 March 2024
Module Coordinator: Alison Simons
Currently in the United Kingdom, multiple births make up approximately 3% of all births. Although the multiple maternity rate for England and Wales has decreased to 14.4 per 1000 births (ONS, 2022), the international picture demonstrates that the incidence of multiple births continues to rise with about 1.6 million sets of twins born each year (Monden et al, 2021). The increasing use of infertility treatments alongside advancements in the care and survival of premature infants, have been attributed to the visible and increasing representation of multiple births within society. As parents adjust to family life and caring for two or more babies, who may have also been born prematurely, they are faced with many social, emotional, practical and economic challenges.
Pregnancy and the transition to parenthood are widely recognised as critical time periods that will influence longer term outcomes for infants and their families. Multiple birth families require health and social care practitioners who are both knowledgeable and able to effectively support them, in order to ensure that they receive the right level of care and support at the right time. To this end, this module will introduce you to the discrete and potentially complex bio-psycho-social needs of multiple birth families, from conception to 1 year of age.
Dates: 9 October - 17 December 2023 (online)
Times: TBC
Application deadline: 25 September 2023
Module Coordinator: Nathalie Turville
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.
Dates:
OCC A:
28 September 2023
5, 12, 19 and 26 October 2023
OCC B:
11, 18 and 25 April 2024
2, 9 and 24 May 2024
Times: 9:00am - 5:00pm
Application deadline:
OCC A - 14 September 2023
Occ B - 28 March 2024
Module Coordinator: Debra Evans
Wounds are a significant cause of morbidity and mortality as well as significant risk to global health care economies. You will have the opportunity to develop your understanding of the key concepts of the wound healing process and how numerous factors can negatively affect the normal sequence of events. The module aims to provide you with the opportunity to critically reflect on the evidence-based principles underpinning wound management and to 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 gain and develop your critical thinking and analysis skills and the skills necessary to foster lifelong learning within this challenging field. This module is aimed at healthcare practitioners who wish to explore the theory and practice of wound care.
Dates:
5, 12 and 26 October 2023
9 November 2023
Self-directed learning weeks w/c: 16 and 30 October 2023
Times: 9:00am - 5:00pm
Application Deadline: 21 September 2023
Module Coordinator: Joanna Swan
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. This module aims to provide you with opportunities to develop your understanding of these conditions and their management. 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 develop your understanding of these conditions and their management. You will have the opportunity to 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. This module is aimed at healthcare practitioners who care for wounds affecting the lower leg.
Dates:
10, 24 and 31 January 2024 and 14 February 2024
Self-directed learning weeks w/c 15 January 2024 and 5 February 2024
Times: 9:00am - 5:00pm
Application Deadline: 20 December 2023
Module Coordinator: Joanna Swan
This online level 6 module focuses on young adult emotional health and explores the risk and vulnerability factors that can contribute to serious and significant mental health problems. This module aims to provide you with a flexible, supportive, and theory-practice led framework of learning which intends to foster and develop your awareness and critical analysis of trauma, loss, or abuse and the immediate and longer-term effects this can had on the emotional and mental health of children and adolescence.
Young adulthood is an instrumental developmental and transitional period during which one in four people may experience mental health problems, substance abuse, engaging in offending behaviours and engagement with mental health, social care and criminal justice services. (Thompson et al.2012; DH 2012; RCN 2014; NHS England 2016). The Department of Health report, ‘No Health Without Mental Health’ (2012) strategy underlined the need to ‘promote good mental health’, ensure ‘early intervention’, and provide transitional services for young adults accessing mental health and allied services.
Dates:
14, 21 and 28 February 2024
6, 13 and 20 March 2024
Times: 9:00am - 4:00pm
Application Deadline: 14 January 2024
Module Coordinator: Paul Millwood
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
Acute Cardiac Conditions are commonly found in a range of healthcare settings and remain a major cause of mortality and morbidity. This module is aimed predominantly at Graduate Health Care Practitioners who provide care and manage patients with Acute Cardiac Conditions in their daily practice, often, although not exclusively within specialist settings. The module will provide opportunities for learners to develop an in-depth knowledge of the underlying physiology of a number of conditions, and critically investigate evidence based, best practice management of Acute Cardiac Conditions.
This module aligns with the Professional Practice Programme philosophy and is 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 in line with the University’s learning and teaching strategy. You will be encouraged to think critically and 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 receive regular feedback and feedforward aimed at developing your academic skills, with the opportunity to discuss your progress with the module team.
Dates:
22 and 29 November 2023
6 and 12 December 2023
10 and 17 January 2024
Times: 9:00am - 5.30pm
Application Deadline: 8 November 2023
Module Coordinator: Simon Dobbs
Welcome to the online distance learning ‘adolescence and mental health’ module. This level 7 distance learning online module examines the factors influencing the emotional and mental health during adolescence, the role of family, mental health, education, and social care and health services.
This module aims to provide you with a flexible, supportive, and theory-practice led framework of learning which intends to foster and develop your awareness, critical analysis, appraisal and evaluation of trauma, loss, and abuse and the immediate and longer-term effects this can had on the emotional and mental health of adolescents.
Adolescence is a key developmental period characterised by rapid physical, emotional, and social growth and increasing independence (Thompson et al.2012). Traumatic events, different forms of loss, and abuse can have a significant and detrimental impact on the psychological and mental health and wellbeing of young people. Trauma, loss, and abuse in childhood and adolescence can contribute to young people presenting features of post -traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety, emotional dysregulation, eating disorders, self-harm, suicidal ideation, early onset psychosis, and other mental health diagnoses (DH 2011; 2015; DSM-V).
Dates:
29 November 2023
6, 13 and 20 December 2023
3 and 10 January 2024
Times: 9:00am - 4:00pm
Application Deadline: 29 October 2023
Module Coordinator: Paul Millwood
The Adult Critical Care Transfer module is designed to equip you with the ability to critically analyse the concepts and principles of critical care transfer to effect a safe and efficient transfer, both inter and intra-hospital, of the critically ill adult. This module will equip you with the knowledge and skills to understand what makes a safe and effective transfer of a critically ill adult enabling you to manage such transfers in the best way for the individual patient in conjunction with the multidisciplinary team.
The Adult Critical Care Transfer module has been designed to align with the Professional Practice Pathway or be accessed as a standalone module. The module will predominantly be delivered online with 2 practical days. The online element will consist of timetabled sessions delivered via MS Teams and Moodle resources and activities you will complete as self-directed study. The practical days will be on consecutive days at BCU and will be scenario-based focussing on the practical skills required when transferring critically ill adults. You will be encouraged to engage in peer learning and reflect on your shared experience. You should be working in a role that requires you to undertake transfers of critically ill adults as you will be required to reflect on your practice.
Dates:
8, 15 and 22 May 2024 (online)
5 and 6 June 2024 (face to face)
12 June 2024 (online).
Times: 9:00am - 4.30pm
Application deadline: 24 April 2024
Module Coordinator: Victoria Winters and Chris Carter
Welcome to the Advocating for Education and Quality Improvement in Practice module. This online module aligns with the course philosophy and is designed to be flexible, and practice led. You will have the opportunity to develop skills of enquiry, reflection and problem solving. You will be encouraged to think critically and 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 receive regular feedback and feedforward aimed at developing your academic skills and have the opportunity to discuss your progress with the module team and clinical mentor. The principles and philosophy of the A-EQUIP Model is equally applicable to other healthcare professionals and supports a continuous improvement process within healthcare professions that builds your personal and professional resilience, enhances quality of care and supports your preparedness for appraisal and professional revalidation.
Dates:
10, 11 and 18 October 2023 (online only)
1, 8, 15, 22 and 29 November 2023 (online only)
Times: 9:00am - 4.30pm
Application deadline: 26 September 2023
Module Coordinator: Paola Armato-Harris
This module is predominantly designed for graduate health care practitioners who wish to expand their knowledge on the biology of Cancer from presentation through to diagnosis.
It is vital that those who work with patients with cancer are supported with appropriate education and reflective practice, to drive up the quality of care for these patients. This module provides you with the opportunity to learn about the principles of Cancer biology by applying it to a specific malignant condition.
By being able to understand this better, it will lead to:
- Advising patients appropriately
- Enable improved evidence-based discussions and practice
- Allow Cancer pathways to be redesigned and patients’ care to be tailored to their health requirements.
This module can also be studied as a standalone module. This module is delivered completely online incorporating course teaching material and a variety of learning activities, such as online lectures, forums, quizzes and workshops. You are expected to participate and engage with the module material which is available on the module MOODLE site. The module assessment is an in-person presentation. Tutorial support will be offered via video tutorials, chat forums, email and telephone.
Dates: Taught Online from 2 October 2023 - 10 November 2023
Times: N/A
Application Deadline: 18 September 2023
Module Coordinator: Alison Simons
This module aligns with the Professional Practice Programme philosophy and is designed to be flexible, and practice led. You will have the opportunity to develop skills of enquiry, reflection and problem solving, as well as being encouraged to think critically and 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 receive regular feedback and feedforward support, as well as individual and group tutorial support aimed at developing your academic skills; and have the opportunities to discuss your progress with the module team.
The module aims to provide you with a critical awareness of leadership, change management and innovation concepts and theories, which can be applied in practice and contribute to personal and professional development of health and social care professionals. You will also learn the importance of collaborative team working to improve patient outcomes and foster high standards of patient care and service delivery, through the application of core leadership principles and structured change management processes. This will enable you to specifically enhance your ability to be proactive, by providing effective leadership, which is considered particularly important for all practitioners at all levels within the health and social care sector.
Dates: 11 March - 5 April 2024 (online)
Times: N/A
Application deadline: 25 February 2024
Module Coordinator: Shirley Kirnon
This module aims to enhance your knowledge base of applied anatomy and physiology, in relation to body systems and explore the pathophysiological processes that may affect these systems. This module aims to provide you with the skills, in-depth applied physiology, and knowledge required to apply safe high quality bedside care to the critically ill patient and their family. The focus of the module is to provide opportunities for you to interpret the significance of altered pathophysiological mechanisms, pathophysiology of critical illness and its implications will be explored within the context of patient assessment and interpretation of clinical symptoms.
The module will enable registered nurses to gain to the knowledge and skills to assess, implement and evaluate patient centred care in order to deliver high quality, safe care to critically ill patients. The module aims to bridge the theory practice gap by using partnership approach to help embed theoretical concepts into clinical practice. It has been developed and will be delivery by a combined team of academic and senior clinically credible practitioners within the speciality of critical care in the UK and internationally.
Dates:
9, 14, 23 and 30 May 2024
6 and 30 June 2024
Times: 09.00am - 4.30pm
Application deadline: 25 April 2024
Module Coordinator: Chris Carter
Reflection and reflective practice continue to be an integral part of health, education and life science (HELS) undergraduate curriculum and subsequent professional practice. Reflection is perceived as integral to the development of the self within the HELS professions, and a notion that is fundamental to the development of emotional intelligence in nurses, allied healthcare and education practitioners.
This module will empower you into becoming an effective reflective practitioner. Achieved through exploration of theoretical underpinnings of reflection and reflective practice, combined with the practical application of that theory into supporting the development of reflective practice skills. Skills developed on this module will be those that underpin solitary reflection; those that will enable you to engage in reflective dialogue with another person as either the recipient of guided discovery or as the facilitator of guided discovery in another; and those skills that will enable you to support the education of reflection in your respective professional area.
Dates:
8, 15, 22 and 29 February 2024
7 and 14 March 2024
Times: 10:00am - 4:00pm
Application deadline: 25 January 2024
Module Coordinator: Nicola Clarke
This module is predominantly designed for graduate, experienced health care practitioners caring for patients receiving stem cell transplants for haematological malignancies, who wish to expand their knowledge and practice in leading service provision within stem cell transplantation.
This module provides you with the opportunity to learn about service provision for stem cell transplant patients and to foster innovative approaches to enhance care delivery within your service. Stem cell transplants are an integral part of the treatment of some patients with haematological and other disorders in both paediatric and adult settings. This is a very specialised and complex form of treatment which requires specialist expertise and knowledge to care for this group of patients.
The module provides you with the opportunity to learn about the innovation and leading practice in caring for patients receiving a stem cell transplant It is delivered completely online incorporating course teaching.
Dates: Taught online 13 May 2024 - 21 June 2024
Times: N/A
Application deadline: 29 April 2024
Module Coordinator: Alison Simons
This online distance learning level 7 module explores the multiplicity of individual, family, and social factors which influence childhood mental health and developmental wellbeing.
This module aims to provide you with a flexible, supportive, and theory-practice led framework of learning which intends to foster and develop your awareness and critical analysis of a range of perinatal mental health, child development and attachment theories, safeguarding, and multi-agency service provision for children and families.
Social, educational, political and statutory agencies have recognised and sought to ensure integrated statutory and non-statutory services identify and address the complex needs of vulnerable and abused children, as well as providing responsive and innovative programmes of care and intervention (Crouch et al. 2019; DfE 2022).
Dates:
20 and 27 September 2023
4, 11, 18 and 25 October 2023
Times: 9:00am - 4:00pm
Application Deadline: 20 August 2023
Module Coordinator: Paul Millwood
Please note, this module is for MoD students only.
This module aligns with the Professional Practice Programme philosophy and is 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 in line with the University’s learning and teaching strategy. You will be encouraged to think critically and 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 receive regular feedback and feedforward aimed at developing your academic skills and have the opportunity to discuss your progress with the module team.
Coaching and supervising and the themes surrounding the roles are vital for all personnel within the healthcare arena. This is underpinned by an integrated approach that adheres to frameworks and policy, set out by organisations and regulatory bodies within healthcare. The diverse nature of healthcare environments requires individuals to have a broad-based knowledge, skills and attitudes to manage healthcare services successfully.
Dates:
Occ A:
4, 11 and 18 October 2023 (online)
8 and 9 November 2023 (face to face)
15 November 2023 (online)
Occ B:
24 and 31 January, 7 February 2024 (online)
21 and 22 February 2024 (face to face)
28 February 2024 (online)
Times: 9:00am - 4.30pm
Application deadline:
Occ A: 20 September 2023
Occ B: 10 January 2024
Module Coordinator: Victoria Winters
This level 7, 20 credit module aims to be a structured education programme aspiring to prepare qualified registrants for the role of supporting and assessing nurses and/or midwives undertaking an SPQ or SCPHN programme. The development of this module is timely following the revision of the NMC Standards for Student Supervision and Assessment (SSSA) (NMC, 2018) with the focus and attention being given to Practice Supervisor and Practice Assessor roles.
The proposed module aims to make explicit the expectations of an advanced level of practice demonstrated by registered nurses and midwives who will have completed a Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) approved field specific Specialist Practitioner Qualification (SPQ) or Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) programme, who work autonomously and engage in complex decision-making. Since the withdrawal of the NMC Community Nursing Practice Teacher Standards (2018), the Practice Teacher qualification has ceased to be offered by many, if not all Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in the United Kingdom and this has led to a significant impact on the SPQ/SCHPN practice experience and thus the preparation assessors and supervisors feel they have for their role in supporting students.
Dates:
Occ A starts 20 September 2023
Occ B starts 24 January 2024
Occ C starts 29 May 2024 - TBC
Times: 9:00am - 4.30pm
Application Deadline:
Occ A 6 September 2023
Occ B 10 January 2024
Occ C 14 May 2024
Module Coordinator: Amy Morton
The module has been designed for registered healthcare professionals working in emergency and critical care settings or preparing to work overseas. This module is open to both UK and international students and can be studied as either a stand-alone module or as part of the International Perspectives in Emergency and Critical Care Pathway.
This module spans the continuum of emergency and critical care from a global, regional and national perspective. The module content has been aligned to international standards such as the World Health Organization, United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the World Federation of Critical Care Nursing education standards. The inter-professional and international elements of the module will facilitate professional discussion, with each student offering differing perspectives based upon their own clinical experiences. Practitioners will critically examine their role in emergency and critical care and therefore be able to deliver high quality, ethically justifiable care within the parameters of international guidelines.
Dates:
16, 23 and 30 January 2024
6, 13, 20 and 27 February 2024
5, 12, 19 and 26 March 2024
2 April 2024
Times: 9:00am - 4.30pm
Application deadline: 2 January 2024
Module Coordinator: Chris Carter
The ‘Core Concepts in Nursing the Critical Ill Adult’ module is one of two core modules of the Adult Critical Care Pathway. Completion of the core 60-credits at level 7, will enable you to achieve a named award in Adult Critical Care and result in you achieving a standardised and transferable critical care post registration academic award (CC3N, 2015). The module content has been aligned to the National Standards for Critical Care Nurse Education (CC3N, 2016), the National Competency Framework for Registered Nurses in Adult Critical Care (CC3N, 2015) and the General Provision of Intensive Care standards (FICM, 2022).
This module spans the critical care patient pathway, from the onset of critical illness through to rehabilitation and discharge. This encompasses assessment, planning, management and evaluation of interventions for critically ill patients with organ dysfunction, enabling you to gain the knowledge and skills to deliver evidence-based clinical management for the critically ill patient. The content will facilitate development of a deep and systematic understanding of the complexities of critical illness. You will be expected to evaluate the reliability and validity of key evidence to justify nursing interventions, also to investigate and evaluate the professional, ethical, and legal issues within a critical care environment. Within each subject area you will explore the relevant underpinning theories, critically reflecting on the application of theory to clinical practice, thereby bridging the theory practice gap. The leadership and management elements will enable you to reflect on current and future issues, facilitating an increased understanding on the impact of professional issues on critical care.
Dates: September 2024
Times: 9:00am - 4.30pm
Application deadline: TBC
Module Coordinator: Chris Carter
The cost of wounds to the NHS has been estimated to be £8.3 billion annually. In order to reduce long term costs and improve wound healing rates use of advanced skills in wound care need to become part of the wound care practitioner’s tool kit. The module aims to provide you with the opportunity to critically reflect on the evidence-based principles underpinning a variety of debridement methods and to explore the literature that currently guides practice. This module will enable the predominately graduate healthcare practitioner to explore the techniques and consider the support and requirements needed to adopt them into practice.
This module is an optional level 7 Tissue Viability pathway module which can also be studied as a stand-alone module and is aimed predominantly at Graduate Health Care Practitioners.
Dates:
2 November and 22 or 23 November 2023 (cohort splits in two for practical days)
Self-directed learning weeks w/c 6, 13 and 27 November 2023 and 4 December 2023
Times: 9:00am - 5:00pm
Application Deadline: 18 October 2023
Module Coordinator: Joanna Swan
This module aligns with the Professional Practice Programme philosophy and is 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 in line with the University’s learning and teaching strategy. You will be encouraged to think critically and 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 receive regular feedback and feedforward aimed at developing your academic skills and have the opportunity to discuss your progress with the module team.
Defence Medical Services (DMS) personnel are required to deliver or support the provision of healthcare worldwide, in peacetime and during conflict. This is underpinned by an integrated approach that adheres to UK regulatory frameworks and Governance principles. Healthcare Governance is an integral part of medical planning, process and sustainability for the delivery of healthcare by DMS. The diverse nature of the DMS operational and firm base environments requires individuals to have a broad-based set of knowledge, skills and attitudes to manage healthcare services successfully.
Dates:
20 and 27 September 2023
4, 11 and 25 October 2023 (online)
Times: 9:00am - 4.30pm
Application deadline: 6 September 2023
Module Coordinator: Peter Royal
This module allows you, a registered nurse or ODP, with a minimum of 12 months post-qualifying experience, to respond to the demands of perioperative practice. The role of the Surgical First Assistant is now widely accepted in perioperative practice within the NHS and Independent Healthcare Sector. As a registered practitioner, the Surgical First Assistant provides continuous competent and dedicated skilled assistance under the direct supervision of the operating surgeon throughout the procedure whilst not performing any form of surgical intervention (PCC 2012).
You will build upon your prior knowledge, skills and experience to develop in the role of the surgical first assistant and work safely and effectively as a member of the wider surgical team. You will mature as a critical thinking practitioner as you prepare to provide competent and skilled surgical assistance to the operating surgeon under supervision.
This module aligns with the Professional Practice Programme philosophy and is 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 sessions, skills workshops and online activities via Moodle in line with the university’s learning and teaching strategy.
Dates:
Occ A: 14 Feb 2024
Occ B: 8 May 2024
(online after 1st study day)
Times: 9:00am - 4:00pm
Application deadline:
Occ A: 15 Dec 2023
Occ B: 1 April 2024
Module Coordinator: Julie Quick
TBC
Cardiac monitoring and electrocardiogram (ECG) interpretation is a core component in the care and management of patients with Cardiac (and other) illnesses. This module is aimed predominantly at Graduate Health Care Practitioners who utilise Cardiac monitoring and ECG interpretation in their day to day practice.
The module will provide opportunities for learners to develop an in-depth knowledge of the ECG, enhance their knowledge and decision-making skills in relation to arrhythmia and conduction disturbance recognition and evidence based best practice management.
This module aligns with the Professional Practice Programme philosophy and is 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 in line with the university’s learning and teaching strategy. You will be encouraged to think critically and 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 receive regular feedback and feedforward aimed at developing your academic skills and have the opportunity to discuss your progress with the module team.
Dates:
11, 18 and 25 October 2023
1, 8 and 15 November 2023
Times: 9:00am - 5.30pm
Application deadline: 27 September 2023
Module Coordinator: Simon Dobbs
Academic skills are the foundational building blocks we use to successfully communicate our knowledge, demonstrate our understanding, and advance our thinking on any topic. This module is aimed at students who wish to develop these essential skills in order to improve their capabilities and excel at master’s level study. You will be facilitated to develop the independent learning and advanced academic scholarship required to support your continuing personal and professional development. This module is tailored to your needs and delivered by nurturing and caring experts in academic skills.
This module will explore, practise, and develop the essential skills required for successful master’s level study. Structured around skills related to approaching, preparing for, planning, drafting, editing, and delivering academic work, this module will aid the development of skills such as critical thinking, academic writing, presentations, planning, editing and reflection. The module is flexible however, and the precise content is tailored to the needs of students. This approach involves students being active partners in their own development, in both directed and self-directed learning, on which you will receive regular feedback and opportunities to discuss progression with the module team, in order to optimise the development of your academic skills.
Dates:
Occ A: 11 September - 30 October 2023
Occ B: 8 January - 26 February 2024
(in person)
Occ A: 14 September - 2 November 2023
Occ B: 11 January - 29 February 2024
(online)
Times: 9:00am - 4.30pm
Application deadline:
Occ A (in person): 28 August 2023
Occ A (online): 31 August 2023
Occ B: 20 December 2023
Module Coordinator: Rebecca Gibbons and Mark Hetherington
This module will cover the fundamental aspects of neonatal care and will support the development of fundamental knowledge and skills for practice including the underpinning physiology. These post registration education pathways, in collaboration with service providers, allow for registered nurses working in neonatal units to become equipped with the specific knowledge and skills required to practice safely and effectively in this critical care area (BAPM, 2012).
This module is one of the optional modules that makes up the Neonatal Critical Care Pathway and is designed to work in unison with the other modules in this pathway to provide a firm base for quality neonatal care. On successful completion of the three modules, you will receive 60 academic credits and a named award in Neonatal Care. 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 module can also be studied as module only.
Dates:
Occ A:
20 and 27 September 2023
4, 11, 18 and 25 October 2023
1, 8, 15 and 22 November 2023
Occ B:
30 November 2023
7, 14 and 1 December 2023
11, 18 and 25 January 2024
8 and 15 February 2024
Times: 9:00am - 4:30pm
Application Deadline:
Occ A: 6 September 2023
Occ B: 16 November 2023
Module Coordinator: Laura Maguire
The module is designed for registered practitioners who are looking to critically develop their knowledge and skill in health assessment of the individual patient. The module introduces and develops the skills required to undertaking a systematic holistic patient assessment. The module content is designed and delivered by lecturers from different specialities to ensure the provision of comprehensive learning which intends to foster and develop your awareness and critical analysis of health assessment.
As a theoretical module there are no compulsory practice-based competences, however it is expected that you will continue to practise, contextualise, and consolidate the learning in your practice setting after completion of the module. This module is not designed to prepare you for autonomous advanced practice but does provide the foundation on which to progress to independent non-medical prescribing training, the achievement of which is valued by employers in diverse health care domains.
Dates:
Occ A: 11, 18 and 25 September, 9, 16 and 23 October 2023
Occ B: 15, 22 and 29 January, 5, 19 and 26 February 2024
Occ C: 18 March, 8, 15, 22 and 29 April, 13 May 2024
Occ D: 10, 17 and 24 June, 1,8 and 15 July 2024
Times: 9.15am - 4.30pm
Application deadline:
Occ A: 28 August 2023
Occ B: 2 January 2024
Occ C: 4 March 2024
Occ D: 27 May 2024
Module Coordinator: Katie Tipple
This module will develop your knowledge and skills to enable you to bring together theory and practice in the field of palliative and end of life care. Module content will provide you with the knowledge required to support and care for patients requiring palliative and end of life care.
This incorporates holistic assessment, symptom management, supportive communication, bereavement needs, advance care planning, spiritual and psychological needs. The course has been designed to enable you to develop specialist knowledge and skills to enable you to provide safe and effective palliative and end of life care to individuals whilst also supporting the patient’s family/ carers/ significant individuals.
The module is aimed predominantly at graduate health care practitioners caring for those with a palliative illness who wish to develop and progress their education to a post graduate level of study.
Dates: TBC
Times: Online
Application deadline: 2 January 2024
Module Coordinator: Kara Fereday
The cost of this module is - £2000 for 40 credits.
This module aims to facilitate the development of a safe and effective Clinical Endoscopist (CE), by equipping the student with the knowledge and skills to perform lower gastro-intestinal endoscopy and polypectomy to a level appropriate for endoscopy practice, incorporating the professional attributes that underpin an advanced practice role.
This module aligns with the Professional Practice Programme philosophy and is 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 in line with the university’s learning and teaching strategy. You will be encouraged to think critically and 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 receive regular feedback and feedforward aimed at developing your academic skills and have the opportunity to discuss your progress with the module team.
Dates (synchronous online):
Occ A:
13, 20 and 26 or 27 September 2023
11, 12, 25, 26 and 27 October 2023
22, 27 and 29 November 2023
13 and 20 December 2023
Occ B:
21 and 28 February 2024
4 or 5, 13, 14 18,19 and 20 March 2024
17, 22 and 24 April 2024
1 May 2024
Times: 9:00am - 5:00pm
Application deadline: Occ A: Closed Occ B: 31 January 2024
Please note that we are able to applications for the September 2023 intake up to 1 October 2023. Please urgently contact the Endoscopy Course Administrator Mahdiyyah Raza by email Mahdiyyah.raza@bcu.ac.uk to discuss your application.
It is recommended that if applicants have not studied at level 6/7 recently that they enrol on the Essential Academic Skills for Level 7 study module.
Module Coordinator: Helen Livett
The cost of this module is - £2000 for 40 credits.
This module aims to facilitate the development of a safe and effective Clinical Endoscopist (CE), by equipping the student with the knowledge and skills to perform diagnostic upper gastro-intestinal endoscopy to a level appropriate for endoscopy practice, incorporating the professional attributes that underpin an advanced practice role.
This module aligns with the Professional Practice Programme philosophy and is 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 in line with the university’s learning and teaching strategy. You will be encouraged to think critically and 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 receive regular feedback and feedforward aimed at developing your academic skills and have the opportunity to discuss your progress with the module team.
Dates (synchronous online):
Occ A:
13, 20 and 25 or 26 September 2023
11 and 12 October 2023
6, 10, 22, 27 and 29 November 2023
13 and 20 December 2023
Occ B:
21 and 28 February 2024
4 or 5, 13, 18, and 19 or 20 March 2024
9, 10, 17 and 22 April 2024
1 May 2024
Times: 9:00am - 5:00pm
Application deadline: Occ A: Closed Occ B: 31 January 2024
Please note that we are able to applications for the September 2023 intake up to 1 October 2023. Please urgently contact the Endoscopy Course Administrator Mahdiyyah Raza by email Mahdiyyah.raza@bcu.ac.uk to discuss your application.
It is recommended that if applicants have not studied at level 6/7 recently that they enrol on the Essential Academic Skills for Level 7 study module.
Module Coordinator: Helen Livett
This module will develop your knowledge and skills to enable you to bring together theory and practice in the field of palliative and end of life care. Module content will provide you with the knowledge required to support and care for patients requiring palliative and end of life care. This incorporates holistic assessment, symptom management, supportive communication, bereavement needs, advance care planning, spiritual and psychological needs.
The course has been designed to enable you to develop specialist knowledge and skills to enable you to provide safe and effective palliative and end of life care to individuals whilst also supporting the patient’s family/ carers/ significant individuals. The module is aimed predominantly at graduate health care practitioners caring for those with a palliative illness who wish to develop and progress their education to a post graduate level of study.
Dates:
Occ A:
13 October, 10 November, 8 December 2023
12 January, 9 February, 8 March 2024
Occ B:
April - July 2024 - dates to confirm with module lead
Times: 9:00am - 12:00pm
Application deadline:
Occ A: 29 September 2023
Occ B: TBC
Module Coordinator: Fouad Berrahou
Advances in the treatment and care of Cardiac Conditions, coupled with an aging population, has resulted in an increased incidence in a number of Long-Term Cardiac Conditions. This increase poses a number of challenges for healthcare providers and individual practitioners alike. In light of these challenges this module is aimed predominantly at Graduate Health Care Practitioners who provide care and manage patients with these conditions in their daily practice, in a variety of clinical settings. The module will provide opportunities for learners to develop an in-depth knowledge of the underlying physiology of a number of Long-Term Cardiac Conditions, and critically investigate evidence based, best practice management of these conditions.
This module aligns with the Professional Practice Programme philosophy and is 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 in line with the University’s learning and teaching strategy. You will be encouraged to think critically and 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 receive regular feedback and feedforward aimed at developing your academic skills and have the opportunity to discuss your progress with the module team.
Dates:
31 January 2024
7, 14 and 21 February 2024
6 and 13 March 2024
Times: 9:00am - 5.30pm
Application Deadline: 17 January 2024
Module Coordinator: Simon Dobbs
This is one of two modules you can choose to study at level seven which focus on enhancing care of adults who experience acute health deterioration. This module offers the opportunity to strengthen your ability to respond early and effectively to acute deterioration. It aims to help you identify appropriate clinical interventions that will have positive impact on health outcomes.
The early, effective management of acute health deterioration is a core skill required of many healthcare professionals. It can be a challenging skill to develop and maintain. The number of people living with one, two or more long term conditions is rapidly increasing in the UK (Kingston et al 2018). The population is also ageing (Office National Statistics 2020). With the polypharmacy that often also accompanies this, choosing treatment interventions in time and resource pressured situations, has become even more demanding. This module is focussed on responding to these challenges.
Dates:
15, 22 and 29 April 2024
13 and 20 May 2024
3 June 2024
Times: 09:00am - 5:00pm
Application deadline: 1 April 2024
Module Coordinator: Claire Perkins
This module is predominantly designed for graduate health care practitioners who wish to expand their knowledge on the management of a patient with a haemato-oncology diagnosis and apply this to a case study from practice.
It is vital that those who work with patients with a haemato-oncology diagnosis are supported with appropriate education and reflective practice, to drive up the quality of care for these patients. This module provides you with the opportunity to learn about the management of a patient with a haemato-oncology diagnosis by applying it to a specific malignant condition.
By being able to understand this better, it will lead to:
- Advising patients appropriately
- Enable improved evidence-based discussions and practice
- Allow haemato-oncology pathways to be redesigned and patients’ care to be tailored to their health requirements.
Dates: Taught online from 8 January 2024 - 16 February 2024
Times: N/A
Application Deadline: 20 December 2023
Module Coordinator: Alison Simons
This module is predominantly designed for graduate health care practitioners who wish to expand their knowledge on the management of a patient with a cancer diagnosis and apply this to a case study from practice.
It is vital that those who work with patients with cancer are supported with appropriate education and reflective practice, to drive up the quality of care for these patients. This module provides you with the opportunity to learn about the management of a patient with cancer by applying it to a specific malignant condition.
By being able to understand this better, it will lead to:
- Advising patients appropriately
- Enable improved evidence-based discussions and practice
- Allow Cancer pathways to be redesigned and patients’ care to be tailored to their health requirements.
Dates: Taught online from 19 February 2024 - 31 March 2024
Times: N/A
Application Deadline: 5 February 2024
Module Coordinator: Alison Simons
This module is aimed at predominantly graduate 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 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.
Dates: 7 November 2023 - 12 January 2024 (online plus one in person session)
Times: 10:00am - 12:00pm
Application deadline: 10 September 2023
Module Coordinator: Shirley Kirnon
Pressure ulcers are a significant cause of morbidity and mortality across all age groups. Treating pressure ulcers is 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 effective pressure ulcer prevention and treatment strategies.
The module aims to develop your understanding of the key concepts in pressure ulcer prevention and management. You will have the opportunity to critically reflect on the evidence-based principles underpinning pressure ulcer prevention and management and to explore the literature that currently guides practice. By fully engaging in this module, you will have the opportunity to further develop your critical analysis and judgement skills and the skills necessary to foster lifelong learning within this challenging field.
Dates:
20 and 28 February 2024
13 and 27 March 2024
Self-directed learning weeks w/c 4 and 18 March 2024
Times: 9:00am - 5:00pm
Application Deadline: TBC
Module Coordinator: Joanna Swan
This is an optional module and delivered as an online distance learning module, focusing on the prevention, recognition and management of sepsis in a range of settings, including pre-hospital, primary care, ward settings and specialist areas.
This module aims to provide you with knowledge and skills to deliver evidence-based prevention, recognition and clinical management for a patient with sepsis in a range of settings. The module will enable you 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 used to justify the management of interventions. To help translate theory to practice, a series of case studies will be used, to identify the early recognition of sepsis causing critical illness and impacting on an illness process, initial treatment, stabilisation, ongoing treatment, and the impact of anti-microbial resistance, post-sepsis syndrome, change management and human factors.
Dates:
11, 18 and 25 October 2023
1, 8 and 15 November 2023
Times: TBC
Application deadline: 27 September 2023
Module Coordinator: Chris Carter
This module is aimed at post-registration healthcare professionals that wish to build upon prior knowledge, skills and experience that have been acquired in practice previously and develop your knowledge of anaesthetic care. It will enable you as a health care practitioner to develop your role, skills and management of anaesthetic care to a level capable of delivering care to patients with complex needs that may be undergoing elective, non-scheduled or emergency procedures. The module will focus on the assessment, application and evaluation of care delivery for a range of perioperative patients including those with complex needs and diverse patient groups in anaesthetic phase of the perioperative environment.
We will consider a range of clinical emergencies and how the deteriorating patient may present during the delivery of anesthesia, we will cover how the interpretation of a range of clinical data can aid with this recognition. This module will also allow you to develop competency within the technical and non-technical skills required to work as an anaesthetic practitioner under the supervision of a registered practitioner and further develop the relationships that you have formed in multidisciplinary teams within the anaesthetic setting to ensure the safety of the patient within a clinical practice setting.
Dates:
Occ A: starts 18 October 2023
Occ B: starts 17 April 2024
Times: 9:00am - 12.30pm
Application deadline:
Occ A: 4 October 2023
Occ B: 17 March 2024
Module Coordinator: Katie O'Connor
TBC
Reflection and reflective practice continue to be an integral part of health, education and life science (HELS) undergraduate curriculum and subsequent professional practice. Reflection is perceived as integral to the development of the self within the HELS professions, and a notion that is fundamental to the development of emotional intelligence in nurses, allied healthcare and education practitioners. Therefore in-line with the Professional Practice framework philosophy this module through a mode of reflection is an optional module, situated within a flexible pathway that aims to meet the specific academic needs of individual practitioners.
A blended learning approach is taken in accord with the university’s learning and teaching strategy and the programme’s philosophy and aims. The module aims to provide you with the opportunity to critically reflect on and explore learning which has occurred through prior experience. The purpose of this module is to enable and support you to reflect in a written format to produce a piece of reflection that profiles’ learning that has occurred from prior experience. This piece can be marked against the assessment criteria, giving you a mark that will contribute towards your award classification, and recognition in the form of credits.
Dates: TBC
Times: TBC
Application deadline: TBC
Module Coordinator: Nicola Clarke
This is one of two modules you can choose to study at level seven which focus on enhancing care of adults who experience acute health deterioration. This module offers the opportunity to strengthen your ability to recognise, assess and interpret physiological indicators of acute deterioration. It aims to help you confidently recognise early signs of physiological deterioration and articulate your concern effectively, to others.
The early recognition of deterioration is a core skill required of many healthcare professionals. It can be a challenging skill to develop and maintain. The number of people living with one, two or more long term conditions is rapidly increasing in the UK (Kingston et al 2018). The population is also ageing (Office National Statistics 2020). With the polypharmacy that often also accompanies this, interpretation of assessment data has become more complex. This module is focussed on responding to these challenges.
Dates:
Occ A:
29 September 2023
6, 13 and 20 October 2023
3 and 10 November 2023
Occ B:
5, 12, 19 and 26 January 2024
9 and 16 February 2024
Times: 9:00am - 5:00pm
Application deadline: 15 December 2023
Module Coordinator: Claire Perkins
This module is aimed at healthcare practitioners involved in the rehabilitation of individuals following critical illness, who may be working in critical care units, critical care outreach, ward settings and community areas e.g. district nurses, GPs and Practice Nurses.
Critically ill patients require highly skills and expert multidisciplinary teams to ensure best outcomes. The same approach is needed to support the rehabilitation of patients of all ages following discharge from critical care and hospital. Therefore, this module will allow practitioners to explore the individual needs of critically ill patients following discharge from the critical care unit, understand the complexities of rehabilitation in a range of settings and evaluate the current evidence relating to rehabilitation following critical illness. Individual patient narratives and a multi-disciplinary Faculty will provide different perspectives in order to help practitioners translate theory to practice.
Dates:
17, 24 and 31 January 2024
7 and 21 February 2024
Times: 9:00am - 4:00pm
Application deadline: 3 January 2024
Module Coordinator: Chris Carter
40 credits
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.
60 credits
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.
Dates: TBC
Times: TBC
Application deadline: TBC
Module Coordinator: Chris Inman
This module addresses specific aspects of theory and practice in research. The aim of this module is to provide a flexible programme of research design and evidence based practice that enables students to satisfy their individual learning needs to extend skills in the analysis and evaluation of specific research designs and their contribution to evidence in practice. It should contribute to personal and professional development and foster independent study regarding the development of practice. It is envisaged that this module will also help prepare the participant to undertake a research dissertation, systematic review, or to provide a conceptual frame of reference in the development of a leadership project. To facilitate this, each student will negotiate the summative assessment with the module leader.
Dates:
Occ A:
20 September 2023
4 and 18 October 2023
1, 15 and 29 November 2023
6 December 2023
Occ B:
16 and 30 January 2024
13 and 27 February 2024
12 and 26 March 2024
9 April 2024
Occ DLB (Online)
17 and 31 January 2024
14 and 28 February 2024
13 and 27 March 2024
10 April 2024
Times: 1.00pm - 3.00pm
Application deadline:
Occ A: 6 September 2023
Occ B: 2 January 2024
Occ B DL: 2 January 2024
Module Coordinator: Emma Craddock
This module is predominantly designed for graduate health care practitioners who administer Systemic Anti-Cancer drug therapy and/or who care for these patients whilst undergoing this treatment. Most patients with cancer will require systemic Anti-Cancer therapy (SACT).
It is vital that those who work with patients with cancer are supported with appropriate education and reflective practice, to drive up the quality of care for these patients. This module provides you with the opportunity to learn about the principles and holistic care of a patient receiving SACT.
By being able to understand this better, it will lead to:
- Administering SACT safely and effectively
- Advising patients appropriately
- Enable improved evidence-based discussions and practice
Dates: Taught online
Occ A:
13 November 2023 - 22 December 2023
Occ B:
2 April 2024 - 10 May 2024
Times: N/A
Application deadline:
Occ A: 30 October 2023
Occ B: 19 March 2024
Module Coordinator: Alison Simons
Currently in the United Kingdom, multiple births make up approximately 3% of all births. Although the multiple maternity rate for England and Wales has decreased to 14.4 per 1000 births (ONS, 2022), the international picture demonstrates that the incidence of multiple births continues to rise with about 1.6 million sets of twins born each year (Monden et al, 2021). The increasing use of infertility treatments alongside advancements in the care and survival of premature infants, have been attributed to the visible and increasing representation of multiple births within society. As parents adjust to family life and caring for two or more babies, who may have also been born prematurely, they are faced with many social, emotional, practical and economic challenges.
Pregnancy and the transition to parenthood are widely recognised as critical time periods that will influence longer term outcomes for infants and their families. Multiple birth families require health and social care practitioners who are both knowledgeable and able to effectively support them, in order to ensure that they receive the right level of care and support at the right time. To this end, this module will introduce you to the discrete and potentially complex bio-psycho-social needs of multiple birth families, from conception to 1 year of age.
Dates: 9 October - 17 December 2023 (online)
Times: TBC
Application deadline: 25 September 2023
Module Coordinator: Nathalie Turville
This module is aimed predominantly at graduate health and social care practitioners who wish to benefit from exploring how interpersonal and behavioural skills influence and affect their working life and practice. This module incorporates elements from the Intelligent Behaviour Analytics® Holistic framework and is a unique offering to BCU students within this module.
Under the guidance of the module facilitators, you will be able to direct your learning across a range of topics including managing self, relationships with others as well as working in teams and organisations. Understanding behaviour and effectively reading others 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.
Dates:
Occ A: 11 and 25 September, 16 October 2023
Occ B: 25 March, 8 and 29 April 2024
(Online or in person at City South Campus)
Times: Hybrid - Online and classroom choices
Application deadline:
Occ A: 28 August 2023
Occ B: 11 March 2024
Module Coordinator: Adam Crizzle
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. This module is aimed at predominantly graduate healthcare practitioners who wish to explore the theory and practice of wound care.
Dates:
5, 12 and 26 October 2023
9 November 2023
Self-directed learning weeks w/c: 16 and 30 October 2023
Times: 9:00am - 5:00pm
Application Deadline: 21 September 2023
Module Coordinator: Joanna Swan
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. This module is aimed at predominantly post-graduate healthcare practitioners who care for wounds affecting the lower leg.
Dates:
10, 24 and 31 January 2024 and 14 February 2024
Self-directed learning weeks w/c 15 January 2024 and 5 February 2024
Times: 9:00am - 5:00pm
Application Deadline: 20 December 2023
Module Coordinator: Joanna Swan
This module seeks to support people new to academic publishing in developing an article for publication. Writing for Academic Publication is a cross between a module and a bootcamp, providing the space, time, support and guidance to develop ideas and data into a draft article ready for submission. Taking a hands on and nurturing approach, the module will demystify the academic publication process, develop your confidence and hone your skills in writing for publication. The module is well-suited to those taking their first steps in academic publishing, whether academic staff, doctoral researchers, Master’s students or CPD students.
This module takes you step by manageable step through the process of writing an academic journal article, from choosing a target publication, writing a draft, editing and revising, to submission and responding to peer review and editorial comments.
Participants are supported on this journey through a combination of group workshops and individual mentoring. The emphasis is on “doing” and applying the concepts and techniques introduced. Each week, you will engage with a range of practical techniques as well as conceptual principles, enabling you to make the transition to become a professional academic writer. By the end of the module, you will have gained a deeper understanding of writing for academic audiences, will have developed your own authorial voice as an academic researcher, and will have made substantive progress towards submitting your first journal article.
Dates:
Occ A:
13 and 27 September 20233
11 and 25 October 2023
8 and 22 November 2023
6 December 2023
Occ B:
8 and 22 January 2024
5 and 19 February 2024
4 and 18 March 2024
8 April 2024
Occ C:
9 and 23 May 2024
6 and 20 June 2024
4 and 18 July 2024
1 August 2024
Times: 10:30am - 3:30pm
Application deadline:
Occ A: 30 August 2023
Occ B: 20 December 2023
Occ C: 24 April 2024
Module Coordinator: Simon Cook
This module seeks to support people new to academic publishing in developing an article for publication. Writing for Academic Publication is a cross between a module and a bootcamp, providing the space, time, support and guidance to develop ideas and data into a draft article ready for submission. Taking a hands on and nurturing approach, the module will demystify the academic publication process, develop your confidence and hone your skills in writing for publication. The module is well-suited to those taking their first steps in academic publishing, whether academic staff, doctoral researchers, Master’s students or CPD students.
This module takes you step by manageable step through the process of writing an academic journal article, from choosing a target publication, writing a draft, editing and revising, to submission and responding to peer review and editorial comments. Participants are supported on this journey through a combination of group workshops and individual mentoring. The emphasis is on “doing” and applying the concepts and techniques introduced. Each week, you will engage with a range of practical techniques as well as conceptual principles, enabling you to make the transition to become a professional academic writer. By the end of the module, you will have gained a deeper understanding of writing for academic audiences, will have developed your own authorial voice as an academic researcher, and will have made substantive progress towards submitting your first journal article.
Dates:
Occ A:
13 and 27 September 2023
11 and 25 October 2023
8 and 22 November 2023
6 December 2023
Occ B:
8 and 22 January 2024
5 and 19 February 2024
4 and 18 March 2024
8 April 2024
Occ C:
9 and 23 May 2024
6 and 20 June 2024
4 and 18July 2024
1 August 2024
Times: 10.30am - 3.30pm
Application deadline:
Occ A: 30 August 2023
Occ B: 20 December 2023
Occ C: 24 April 2024
Module Coordinator: Simon Cook
This online level 7 module focuses on young adult emotional health and critically examines the risk and vulnerability factors that can contribute to serious and significant mental health problems. This module aims to provide you with a flexible, supportive, and theory-practice led framework of learning which intends to foster and develop your awareness and critical analysis of trauma, loss, or abuse and the immediate and longer-term effects this can had on the emotional and mental health of children and adolescence.
Young adulthood is an instrumental developmental and transitional period during which one in four people may experience mental health problems, substance abuse, engaging in offending behaviours and engagement with mental health, social care and criminal justice services. (Thompson et al.2012; DH 2012; RCN 2014; NHS England 2016). The Department of Health report, ‘No Health Without Mental Health’ (2012) strategy underlined the need to ‘promote good mental health’, ensure ‘early intervention’, and provide transitional services for young adults accessing mental health and allied services.
Dates:
14, 21 and 28 February 2024
6, 13 and 20 March 2024
Times: 9:00am - 4:00pm
Application Deadline: 14 January 2024
Module Coordinator: Paul Millwood
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.
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Our modules vary in their delivery method, with some online, others in person, some delivered weekly and some delivered more intensely. You can find information about each module and its delivery in this section. If you need help deciding which modules or outcome award to study for please contact our Professional Navigators on navigator@bcu.ac.uk who will be able to guide you.
How it works
You can choose to study this programme as a complete pathway award or as a standalone module.
Degree (Level 6)
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Postgraduate (Level 7)
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Modules completed
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International
Birmingham City University is a vibrant and multicultural university in the heart of a modern and diverse city. We welcome many international students every year – there are currently students from more than 80 countries among our student community.
The University is conveniently placed, with Birmingham International Airport nearby and first-rate transport connections to London and the rest of the UK.
Our international pages contain a wealth of information for international students who are considering applying to study here, including:
- Explore some of the good reasons why you should study here.
- Find out how to improve your language skills before starting your studies.
- Find all the information relevant to applicants from your country.
- Learn where to find financial support for your studies.
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.
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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.
Our staff
Claire Perkins
Senior Lecturer
Claire trained as an undergraduate registered nurse in multiple hospitals in London 1993-6. Subsequent clinical registered nursing roles in A & E and multiple HDU’s and ITU’s across the West Midlands, including a Senior Sister post in critical care at University Hospital Birmingham. During a post-registration intensive care course (ENB 100) in...
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Senior Lecturer of Nursing & Midwifery
Alison was a cancer nurse for 18 years looking after patients with a variety of cancer and receiving a variety of treatments. She was the junior sister of a mixed oncology ward within a large teaching hospital. Alison then went on to become a professional development sister responsible for the educational needs of 200 oncology and haematology...
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Professional Navigators
Our Professional Navigator, Nicola Clarke, is also on hand to offer guidance and will help you to choose which modules are best for you, taking into account your aims, professional or clinical experience, KSF requirements and your academic achievements.
Call Nicola on +44 (0)121 331 6162.
Module Leaders
If you have any queries about one of the modules, please contact the Module Leader(s). Details can be found in the module description.