MSc Emergency Practitioner

Module: 7HW130

Credits: 10

Period: 1

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, 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.

Module: 7HW129

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Walsall Campus

This module will develop your knowledge around the assessment and management of a range of minor illnesses across the lifespan. The module starts by examining the general principles of clinical examination within the context of minor illness before specifically addressing particular minor illnesses relating to the respiratory, ENT, abdominal, genito-urinary and MSK systems. The module also provides you with the opportunity to learn the appropriate way to request and interpret investigations and to appreciate their relevance to enhancing the clinical examination process.

Module: 7HW128

Credits: 10

Period: 1

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, 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.

Module: 7HW127

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Walsall Campus

This module will develop your knowledge around the assessment and management of a range of minor injuries across the lifespan. The module starts by examining the general principles of clinical examination within the context of minor injuries before specifically addressing particular minor injuries to the head and neck, upper and lower limbs and torso. The module also provides you with the opportunity to learn the appropriate way to request and interpret plain x-rays of the apendicular skeleton and to develop skills in wound closure.

Module: 7HW126

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Walsall Campus

The aim of the module is two fold: Firstly, to equip healthcare professionals to become critical consumers of research as practitioners by providing them with knowledge and understanding necessary to understand the impact of research through the ability to evaluate research appropriately; and secondly to provide the opportunity to undertake an in depth literature review to investigate a research question of their choice. The module provides an introduction to different types of literature review, systematic reviews, integrative reviews and scoping reviews. The module provides an introduction to a range of qualitative and quantitative research methods and outlines the different epistemological and ideological foundations of contrasting research paradigms. The module includes exposure to the techniques involved in analysing both qualitative and quantitative data, as well as considering ethical issues relating to research.

Module: 7NH020

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Optional

Locations: Walsall Campus

You will be able to integrate an advanced level of theory into practice in order to prepare you as a registered health professional to prescribe, as an independent or supplementary prescriber, appropriately and economically under the regulations pertaining to the appropriate drug formulary.

Module: 7NH019

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Optional

Locations: Walsall Campus

You will develop and integrate underpinning theory and practice that prepares health professionals to prescribe both as independent and supplementary prescribers by critically evaluating sources of information, advice and decision support in prescribing. You will appraise mechanisms of numeracy calculation, drug actions, side effects and contra-indications. You will be able to apply pharmacological information to your prescribing decisions.

Module: 7NH068

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Optional

Locations: Walsall Campus

Advancing 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: 7NH035

Credits: 20

Period: 2

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: 7HW024

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Optional

Locations: Walsall Campus

This module is designed to meet employability criteria and professional benchmarks relating to leadership and innovation relating to health care delivery. You will work collaboratively with fellow professionals to explore theories and concepts of leadership and management in the workplace. You will investigate political and professional perspectives of leadership and managment and investigate influences on your own style and behaviour. The module will test your conscious and unconscious values and beliefs of what constitutes an effective leader and manager in the challenging culture and environment of the healthcare service.

Module: 7HW121

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Optional

Locations: Walsall Campus

This module aims to enhance your knowledge and understanding of the health care needs of people with a learning disability and/or Autism. It is aimed at health care professionals working in all areas and specialisms. You will critically reflect on the health care needs and current health care provision for people with learning disabilities and/or Autism. You will develop evidence-based strategies to effectively support people with learning disabilities and/or Autism in clinical practice.