Professional Clinical Practice BSc/BSc (Hons)

Course modules

• Introduction to Contraception and Sexual Health (15 credits)
• Contraception Sexual health, Theory and Clinical practice (30 credits)
• Women’s Health (30 credits)
• Minor Illness Management (15 credits)
• Consultation and physical examination Skills (30 credits)
• Minor Injuries management (30 credits)
• Surgical First Assistant (LBR) (30 credits)
• Surgical First Assistant (Nuffield) (30 credits)
• Surgical First assistant (Spire) (30 credits)
• Perioperative and Surgical Practice (30 credits)
• Diabetes Care and Related Disorders (30 credits)
• Patient Safety and Human Factors in Healthcare (30 credits)
• Patient Safety and Human Factors in Healthcare Spire (30 credits)
• Patient Safety and Human Factors in Healthcare Nuffield (30 credits)
• Supporting neurodiversity in professional Clinical Practice (30 credits)
• Principles of Care of the acutely Ill Adult in the critical care environment (30 credits)
• Principles of Care of the acutely Ill Adult in the critical care environment Spire (30 credits)
• Principles of Care of the acutely Ill Adult in the critical care environment Nuffield (30 credits)
• Recognising and responding to acute physical deterioration in adults (30 credits)
• Applied Care of the Critically Ill Adult (30 credits)
• Applied Care of the Critically Ill Adult Spire (30 credits)
• Applied Care of the Critically Ill Adult Nuffield (30 credits)
• Care of the critically ill child / young person (HD level 1,2 Critical care (30 credits)
• Advanced critical care of the Ill child/young person (Advanced critical care level 3) (30 credits)
• Fundamentals of Anaesthetic care (30 credits)
• Enhanced Anaesthetic Care (30 credits)
• Gastroenterology and Hepatology (30 credits)
• Stoma Care (SALT) (30 credits)
• Understanding chronic disease management and care (30 credits)
• Managing Pain (15 credits)
• Applied Trauma and Resuscitative Care (30 credits)
• Applied Emergency Care (30 credits)
• Neonatal Special and High Dependency Care (30 credits)
• Neonatal Intensive Care (30 credits)
• Neonatal and Infant Physical Examination (NIPE) (30 credits)
• Independent Study (30 credits)
• Independent Study (15 credits)
• Therapeutic approaches to acute and common mental health conditions (30 credits)
• Therapeutic approaches to complex and long term mental health conditions (30 credits)
• Fundamentals of Infection Prevention and control (Nuffield) (15 credits)
• Enhancing Infection Prevention and control (Nuffield) (30 credits)
• Fundamentals of Infection Prevention and control (Spire) (15 credits)
• Enhancing Infection Prevention and control (Spire) (30 credits)
• Professionalism and Accountability in Clinical Practice (15 credits) (core module for the BSc Hons)
• The Principles of Practice Assessment in Healthcare Practice (30 credits)
• Foundations in Cancer Care (30 credits)
• Understanding cancer care from prevention to early diagnosis (30 credits)
• Palliative and Supportive Care (15 credits)
• Palliative symptom management in long term conditions (30 credits)
• Self-Management in Cancer Care (Macmillan) (30 credits)
• Organisational Change and Development (15 credits)
• Developing Research Skills (15 credits) (core module for the BSc Hons)
• Safeguarding vulnerable adults, children and young people (15 credits)
• Nutrition in Adults (UHL Collab) (30 credits)
• Developing Specialist Skills to care for the Frail Older person (UHL Collab) (30 credits)
• Neurocognitive and related disorders in the older person (UHL Collab) (30 credits)
• SACT (UHL Collab) (30 credits)
• SACT (Spire) (15 credits0
• Immediate Post Anaesthetic and Recovery Practice (30 credits)

Pathways

BSc Professional Clinical Practice

• Core module 1: Any optional module (30 credits)
• Core module 2: Any optonal module (30 credits)
• Total credits: 60

BSc (Hons) Professional Clinical Practice

• Module: Any module or a core pathway module (30 credits)
• Module: Any module or a core pathway module (30 credits)
• Core module 1: Research Methods in Health Care Practice (15 credits)
• Core module 2: Professionalism and accountability in Clinical practice (15 credits)
• Module: Any modules up to 30 credits
• Total credits: 120

BSc Professional Clinical Practice (Medical Care)

• Core module 1: Recognising and Responding to Acute Physical Deterioration in Adults (30 credits)
• Core module 2: Diabetes Care and related disorders (30 credits)
• Total credits: 60

BSc Professional Clinical Practice (Long Term Care)

• Core module 1: Understanding Chronic disease management and Care (30 credits)
• Core module 2: Diabetes Care and related disorders (30 credits)
• Total credits: 60

BSc Professional Clinical Practice (Critically Ill Child)

• Core module 1: Care of the critically ill child and young person (L1&2) (30 credits)
• Core module 2: Advanced care of the critically ill child/ young person (L2&3) (30 credits)
• Total credits: 60

BSc Professional Clinical Practice (Critically Care Adult)

• Core module 1: Principles of care of the acutely ill adult in the critical care environment (30 credits)
• Core module 2: Applied care of the critically ill adult (30 credits)
• Total credits: 60

BSc Professional Clinical Practice (Emergency Care)

• Core module 1: Applied trauma and resuscitative care (30 credits)
• Core module 2: Applied Emergency Care (30 credits)
• Total credits: 60

BSc Professional Clinical Practice (Mental Health Care Practice)

• Core module 1: Therapeutic approaches to acute and common mental health conditions (30 credits)
• Core module 2: Therapeutic approaches to complex and long term mental health conditions (30 credits)
• Total credits: 60

BSc Professional Clinical Practice (Anaesthetic care)

• Core module 1: Fundamentals of Anaesthetic care (30 credits)
• Core module 2: Enhanced Anaesthetic care (30 credits)
• Total credits: 60

BSc Professional Clinical Practice (Surgical Care)

• Core module 1: Perioperative practice (30 credits)
• Core module 2: Patient safety and Human Factors (surgical focus) (30 credits)
• Total credits: 60

BSc Professional Clinical Practice (Neonatal Care)

• Core module 1: Neonatal Special and High Dependency Care (30 credits)
• Core module 2: Neonatal Intensive care (30 credits)
• Total credits: 60

BSc Professional Clinical Practice (Older Persons Care)

• Core module 1: Developing Specialist Skills to care for the Frail Older person (UHL Collab) (30 credits)
• Core module 2: Neurocognitive and related disorders in the older person (UHL Collab) (30 credits)
• Total credits: 60

BSc Professional Clinical Practice (Emergency Care)

• Core Module 1: Applied trauma and resuscitative care (30 credits)
• Core module 2: Applied Emergency Care (30 credits)
• Total credits: 60

Teaching and assessments

The programme adopts a range of teaching and learning strategies. Shared learning with other professionals will be a focus of this programme. Students will be encouraged to develop a critical, evaluative approach to the knowledge which underpins health and professional practice.

Strategies include:

• Teacher-led sessions
• Student-led seminars and presentations
• Discussions and tutorials
• Independent study
• Focused reflection
• A range of experiential teaching methods

You must complete a total of:

• 120 credits for the BSc (Hons) award, which must include 30 credits from the two core modules
• 60 credits for the BSc non-honours award from the undergraduate module list
• Only 30 credits of modules can be studied per semester