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Key Features
Aligned with NHS career framework
Designed in collaboration with users of health and social care services
Designed to meet the needs of experienced practitioners
Part-time study
Course Overview
This course has been designed to meet the need of experienced registered practitioners from backgrounds such as nursing, paramedicine, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, and radiography. It aims to enable students to undertake a holistic assessment of individual patient needs, including consideration of bio-psycho-social factors, comorbidities, pain management, and individual life-style choices that influence and impact upon healing and overall quality of life.
How You Study
This course is delivered through blended learning, where key concepts will be introduced through lectures, seminars, e-learning, and directed study. To support this approach, learning support and resources will be provided through the University's Virtual Learning Environment. You will also be able to apply, analyse, explore, and extend concepts within tissue viability through clinical examples and shared-experience where possible.
Across the course, you will be expected to independently develop, synthesise and apply your clinical skills and knowledge to the context of your own professional practice in order to support and enable your professional development learning.
The syllabus for this module will typically include the following:
- Structure and composition of a range of tissue presentations
- Infection prevention and control
- Normal healing processes and factors affecting this
- Aetiological changes, dermatological conditions and their clinical
presentation in tissue viability
- Prevention of deterioration
- Assessment and management of complex wounds
- Psychological, social and cultural factors influencing individual
health
- Holistic patient assessment and exploration of comorbidities
- Quality of life and life choices affecting healing
- Collaborative and interprofessional team working and decision
making
How you are assessed
You will be assessed through a formative assessment which involves delivering a presentation on a Confidential Clinical Management Plan.
The summative assessment will then be a 4000-word justification of this plan.
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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.
