Professional Practice (Respiratory Care) pt
Bachelor's degree
In High Wycombe
Description
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Bachelor's degree
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Location
High wycombe
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Duration
2 Years
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.
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About this course
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.
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
- AIRWAY MANAGEMENT
- Oxygen Therapy
- Nebulised drug
- Arterial blood
- Mechanical
- Tracheostomy Care
- Suctioning
- Analysis
- Psychological
- Social Issues
- Risk Management
Course programme
What will this course cover?
The course requires you to complete a total of 120 credits at Level 6, typically from four 30 credit modules. You can choose the modules you wish to study from a number of options depending on your study interests or the pathway you wish to follow. However, the final module must be either the Dissertation module or the Research and Innovation in Practice module.
For the Respiratory Care pathway, the Respiratory Care module and the final module are core. The final module must be either the Dissertation module or the Research and Innovation in Practice module.
Content to include the following:
Concepts of specialist and advanced practice in respiratory careDeterminants of respiratory disease
- age
- ethnicity
- culture
- socio economic status
- associated pathology.
Respiratory physical assessment skills, interpretation of diagnostic tests and investigations.
Assessment and management of patients with acute (acute on chronic) respiratory failure.
Key clinical skills
- airway management
- oxygen therapy
- nebulised drug administration
- arterial blood gas interpretation
- non-invasive ventilation (mechanical ventilation)
- pleural drains
- tracheostomy care
- suctioning.
Professional issues relating to respiratory care: national service frameworks, NICE guidelines, integrated care pathways, risk management, multi disciplinary collaboration / communication.
Professional Practice (Respiratory Care) pt