Professional Practice (Palliative Care) pt
Bachelor's degree
In High Wycombe
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
High wycombe
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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.
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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:
- 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
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