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Key Features
Aligned with NHS career framework
Part Time
Delivered by experienced healthcare professionals
Designed for practitioners
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Course Overview
This course has been designed to meet the needs of registered and practicing professionals such as nurses, paramedics, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, and radiographers.
It aims to enable students to apply best evidence and underpinning knowledge regarding pathogenesis and microbiology, to the prevention, monitoring, investigation, and control of infection. Additionally, it seeks to develop students practical skills in instigating changes in their work environments.
How You Study
This course takes a blended learning approach. Key concepts will be introduced through lectures, seminars, e-learning, and directed study. You will then have the opportunity to apply these concepts through clinical examples and shared experience.
You will also be expected to independently develop, reflect upon, and apply your clinical skills and knowledge to the context of your own professional practice.
Additional support resources will be provided through the University's Virtual Learning Environment.
This course typically covers:
- Auditing a defined clinical environment in a structured and methodical way.
- Applying knowledge of microbiology and pathogenesis, to analyse and interpret your clinical findings.
- Utilising audit findings to formulate an appropriate risk management plan, based on best evidence, clinical judgement ,and assessment of patient and/or public risk.
- Justifying your recommendations for clinical practice, using contemporary policy and clinical guidelines to enhance patient and/or public safety.
How you are assessed
Formative assessment on this course will take place through discussions of findings from a clinical audit.
Summative assessment will be undertaken by applying practical skills and underpinning knowledge of theory and healthcare policy to the interpretation and analysis of a clinical evidence base which will be presented in a confidential Clinical Audit Report.
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From short courses and microcredentials, to professional development modules and fully online Master’s degrees, we offer a range of flexible programmes to suit your individual needs. Our suite of programmes uses a variety of delivery methods, including online-only, face-to-face, blended, and distance-learning approaches.
