Professional Practice (Palliative Care) pt

Bachelor's degree

In High Wycombe

£ 4,250 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    High wycombe

  • Duration

    2 Years

This course offers a grounding that enables health care professionals to knowledgeably manage patients within their specialist field. As a successful graduate you will have a desirable qualification for career progression, including highly sought after jobs.

Further opportunities for successful students include studying at master’s level towards an award in a relevant field of advanced practice, for example MSc Advanced Practice.

Facilities

Location

Start date

High Wycombe (Buckinghamshire)
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High Wycombe Campus, Queen Alexandra Road, HP11 2JZ

Start date

On request

About this course

This BSc (Hons) Professional Practice is a flexible programme designed to enable suitably qualified and experienced practitioners to 'top up' a Level 5 qualification to a degree, through a number of different pathways. This course can also be studied full-time over one year, or spread over up to six years.

A typical offer will include at least 120 credits at level 5, evidence of clinical experience and candidates will need to be working in a relevant area of health care practice.

In addition to this applicants must be a registered nurse on the appropriate part of the NMC register for consideration.

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Subjects

  • Palliative care
  • Palliative Nursing
  • Care Management
  • Care Education
  • Career Development
  • Dissertation
  • Life care
  • Symptom management
  • Innovation
  • Management

Course programme


The modules available on this course are as follows:

Year 1 Modules
  • Dissertation (optional)
  • End of Life Care and Symptom Management
  • Research and Innovation in Practice (optional)
  • Select 60 credits from the BSc/BA Optional Module menu. (See programme specification)

Content will explore evidence based practice and will include the following:

  • Social attitudes to death and dying
  • Death in society and dying trajectories
  • Policy relating to end of life care
  • Assessment of quality of life and suffering
  • Communications skills
Symptom management:

a. Pain
b. Breathlessness
c. Fatigue
d. Final days
e. Palliative care emergencies

Psychological issues:

a. Cultural and spiritual dimensions
b. Anxiety and depression
c. Living with uncertainty and existential distress

Ethical issues:

a. Patient choice and advanced care planning
b. Resource issues
c. Withdrawal and withholding treatment
d. Assisted dying
  • Care of the family
  • Bereavement care
  • End of life care for people with dementia
  • Safeguarding

Professional Practice (Palliative Care) pt

£ 4,250 VAT inc.