Enhancing Quality Through Patient Safety
Master
In Luton
Description
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Type
Master
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Location
Luton
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Duration
1 Year
Practitioners achieving this qualification will be well placed to participate and lead in the developments that are being both made and planned within the patient safety arena. Suitable for: Available to all health and social care practitioners from a variety of professional backgrounds.
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About this course
Students should have an honours degree or the equivalent in terms of advanced study, research or professional experience.
An IELTS 6 or equivalent is required for international students.
You do not need to be in clinical practice during the course but will need access to a practice environment in terms of the assessment strategy.
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Course programme
MSc Enhancing Quality Through Patient Safety
Mode: full-time
The MSc Enhancing Quality through Patient Safety consists of a mix of core and option units
During your studies you will study the following units:
- Patient safety
- Design, human factors and patient safety
- Influencing people and organisations
- Project management in health and social care
- Dissertation
- Option unit(s)
Option units
Your course has been designed to allow some flexibility in the units studied. You will need to choose an option unit or units totalling 30 credits to achieve the number of credits for the award. The option units currently available to students taking this course are:
- Legal & Ethical Perspectives in Health Care (30 credits)
- Independent and Supplementary Prescribing
Why choose this course?
This MSc, ‘Enhancing quality through patient safety’, is one of the first in the UK to deal specifically with the patient safety agenda. Patient safety is a key priority of the Department of Health, as evidenced by the fact that it is the first objective in the Standards for Health document (DH, 2004).
Since its creation in 2001, the National Patient Safety Agency has concentrated much of its efforts on facilitating organisational and occupational change to promote patient safety.
It is therefore clear that senior healthcare staff are required to support and drive the patient safety agenda as an integral part of their work role.
Offering a high quality programme at masters level meets the continuing professional development (CPD) needs of the staff involved in delivering the objectives of the Department of Health, and organisations such as the NPSA, at the local healthcare organisation level.
Career Opportunities
The drivers for enhanced quality and patient safety will continue to grow.
Teaching/learning methods and strategies
The approach to learning in this masters programme are reflective in a pragmatic sense. The theoretical frameworks and models underpinning the MSc will be presented using key lectures that the student will then be required to link directly to practice.
The programme will mirror, through student involvement, the facilitation of patient involvement in the practice environment a key aspect of the patient safety agenda.
Assessment
A range of different assessment strategies are used, but the unifying theme is that you will be required to analyse and evaluate practice in order to positively influence and contribute to the development of a patient safety culture.
The methods utilised include case study, examination, presentations, and root cause analysis.
Dissertation/project and research
An eighteen thousand word dissertation based upon a piece of research, audit or change management project undertaken by the student completes the programme. You will also submit a two thousand word plan in preparation for the above.
Enhancing Quality Through Patient Safety