Palliative and End of Life Care

Bachelor's degree

In Telford

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Telford

  • Duration

    1 Year

This course will develop your knowledge and skills in a way which helps you to bring together theory and practice in the field of palliative and end of life care. The course aims to provide you with an award that will give you the necessary professional values, communication and interpersonal skills for caring for this client group, through developing your knowledge and understanding in the areas of symptom management, dealing with loss and grief, and the development of enhanced communication skills, all of which contribute to effective decision making in delivering specialist palliative and end of life care.


The course has been designed to enable you to develop the specialist knowledge and skills to provide safe and effective palliative and end of life care to individuals with a life limiting progressive illness whilst supporting their significant others. The education and training team delivering the programme will prepare you to practice in the 21st century by developing your skills to meet the needs of individuals requiring holistic palliative and end of life care in a variety of clinical care settings.

Successful completion of this award will enable you to progress your studies to the Honours degree in Palliative and End of Life Care.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Telford (Shropshire)
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Level 3 Southwater One, Southwater Sqare, Southwater Way, TF3 4JG

Start date

On request

About this course

Students will have achieved 120 level 4 and 120 level 5 credits prior to entering the award.

Applicants will have experience of working with palliative and end of life clients.
You may be eligible for Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) in relation to module / course learning outcomes. A request for consideration of RPL needs to be made in writing to the programme leader prior to the course commencing.

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Subjects

  • Communication Training

Course programme

Compton Hospice Education and Training Centre has a well-established tradition of offering high quality research based specialist modules in palliative and end of life care for over 20 years. The latest technology is embraced within the organisation which includes fully interactive projectors; online multi media and the latest resources in our specialist on site library. The lecturers are all specialists in their field, and are clinical practitioners / clinical links in specialist areas providing palliative and end of life care, utilizing the most contemporary approaches to symptom management and other interventions in palliative and end of life care.

Our track record of successful graduates from our specialist awards indicate many practitioners awarded specialist palliative and end of life care awards have gone on to positively influence the development of palliative and end of life care in their organisation.

Palliative and End of Life Care

Price on request