Professional Practice in Healthcare

This module aims to develop and expand on your knowledge and understanding of UK health policy and its decision making process. It gives you the opportunity to identify, explore and analyse the health policies which are applicable to your area of practice and how they impact on patient/client care.

This module explores contemporary mental health practice based on the bio-psychosocial determinants of mental health and illness. Participants will gain an understanding of mental health promotion and explore effective approaches in responding to individuals experiencing mental distress across the life continuum.

This module is designed to enable you to focus on your clinical practice and to develop the appropriate underpinning knowledge, skill and aptitude to assess and examine the adult client.

The module aims to critically discuss and reflect on the current challenges for people with a learning disability and/or autism in health care. It aims to enhance your knowledge and understanding of the needs of people with a learning disability and/or autism and is suitable for all health care practitioners from any clinical setting. Alongside this, evidence-based interventions for enhancing health care for people with a learning disability and/or autism will be shared and disseminated more widely.

This module aims to support the student to develop skills of academic inquiry in relation to the delivery of high quality care in the field of long term condition management. Contemporary systems and models of healthcare delivery will be explored and applied to enhance the experience of the patient and carer across a diverse range of long term conditions.

This module will enable you to develop your clinical skills to recognise, assess, commence early interventions and escalate appropriately the deteriorating/acutely ill adult patient. The module is suitable for all practitioners caring for acutely ill patients, in general care areas (for example general wards, specialist wards and departments , Assessment Units, Emergency Departments). The module will focus on supporting your development of the underpinning theory to develop your knowledge and clinical skills, to care for the acutely ill patient. This will assist you to develop your competence, confidence and skills specifically in recognising and managing acutely ill adults.

This module aims to enable and encourage youto work with others in the health and or social care setting in order to improve the quality of the service for the benefit of patient/clients.

This module aims to develop and expand on your knowledge and understanding of UK health policy and its decision making process. It gives you the opportunity to identify, explore and analyse the health policies which are applicable to your area of practice and how they impact on patient/client care.

This module aims to enable you as an experienced, registered health care professional to critically examine knowledge and theoretical principles that guide best tissue viability practice in order to enhance the quality of patient care.