BSc (Hons) Emergency Practitioner (Top up)

Module: 6HW068

Credits: 20

Period: 5

Type: Core

Locations: Walsall Campus

Description this innovative and exciting module will provide the clinician working in any urgent, first contact or emergency care setting with the skills and knowledge required to independently manage a proportion of the patient workload, including children and adults, presenting with undifferentiated illness. It is therefore suitable for nurses and Allied Health Professionals working in urgent care centres, primary care and walk in centres, minor injury units, in emergency departments or in the pre-hospital environment

Module: 6HW153

Credits: 10

Period: 5

Type: Core

Locations: Walsall Campus

This module addresses the critical need to apply theory to practice in the emergency and urgent care setting with reference to patients presenting with a range of minor illness. You will build upon the subject knowledge you gained during the minor illness module for emergency practitioners (6HW068), and with the support of a clinical mentor in practice, focus on the achievement of key competencies that will develop your assessment and management skills. Teaching and assessment activities will allow you to demonstrate a systematic understanding of the subject area and to critically evaluate arguments, concepts and evidence based practice, and to develop transferable skills necessary for employment in emergency care settings.

Module: 6HW067

Credits: 20

Period: 5

Type: Core

Locations: Walsall Campus

this innovative and exciting module will examine the general principles of clinical examination before specifically addressing traumatic injury in different anatomical areas such as head and neck trauma, upper limb and lower limb injuries and injury to the torso. It will additionally examine relevant differences in presentation in children and the older patient and provide the knowledge and skills required to interpret plain x-rays

Module: 6HW151

Credits: 10

Period: 5

Type: Core

Locations: Walsall Campus

This module addresses the critical need to apply theory to practice in the emergency and urgent care setting with reference to patients presenting with a range of minor injuries. You will build upon the subject knowledge you gained during the minor injury module for emergency practitioners (6HW067), and with the support of a clinical mentor in practice, focus on the achievement of key competencies that will develop your assessment and management skills. Teaching and assessment activities will allow you to demonstrate a systematic understanding of the subject area and to critically evaluate arguments, concepts and evidence based practice, and to develop transferable skills necessary for employment in emergency care settings.

Module: 6HW032

Credits: 20

Period: 6

Type: Core

Locations: Walsall Campus

This module aims to support health and social care professionals in appreciating the role of research in evidence based practice. This will be achieved by developing and expanding their theoretical and practical knowledge of the research process, using directed and self directed study. The module will focus on the search, retrieval, and critical appraisal of literature relevant to the student's own area of professional practice.

Module: 6NH033

Credits: 20

Period: 6

Type: Optional

Locations: Walsall Campus

This module aims to help you develop and integrate the underpinning pharmacological theory and practice that prepares you as a health professional to prescribe within the remit of your professional role.

Module: 6NH081

Credits: 20

Period: 6

Type: Optional

Locations: Walsall Campus

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.

Module: 6NH047

Credits: 20

Period: 6

Type: Optional

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

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.

Module: 6HW147

Credits: 20

Period: 6

Type: Optional

Locations: Walsall Campus

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.

Module: 6HW149

Credits: 20

Period: 6

Type: Optional

Locations: Walsall Campus

The module is suitable for any healthcare professional with an interest in developing their leadership skills and the role that leadership has in the provision of high quality care. The aim of this module is to enhance your self-knowledge and understanding of your own leadership strengths and abilities. Through greater self-awareness you will be able to recognise your natural approach to leadership and develop and apply skills in leadership to your current role such as emotional intelligence, problem solving and interpersonal skills.

Module: 6HW148

Credits: 20

Period: 6

Type: Optional

Locations: Walsall Campus

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.

Module: 6NH026