Short courses at undergraduate level
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Undergraduate level |
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NMC approved course |
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Course suitable for a wide variety of allied health professionals |
The following are available as either standalone short courses, or as part of a programme of study leading to a Diploma/BSc(Hons) Health Care Practice.
Click on a link below to see the undergraduate short courses available in that pathway.
- Acute and critical care
- Emergency care practitioner/Paramedic practitioner
- First contact, access and urgent care
- Learning disabilities
- Long term conditions and end of life care
- Mental health
- Family and public health
- Leadership and professional development
- NMC approved programmes
- NMC, Health Professions Council and Royal Pharmaceutical Society approved course
Acute and critical care
Cardiac care
- Assessment of the cardiac patient
- Management of the cardiac patient
- 12 Lead ECG interpretation
Intensive care
- Assessment of the critically ill patient - for intensive care practitioners
- Intensive care of the polytrauma patient
- Interventions for and management of the intensive care patient
Neuroscience
Renal care
- Haemodialysis and the renal client
- Living with renal insufficiency
- Peritoneal dialysis and the renal client
- Transplantation and the renal client
General acute care
- Acute respiratory care
- Continuing care of the polytrauma patient
- Infection control and transmissible infections
- Management of vascular patients
- Managing musculoskeletal care
- Principles of orthopaedic care
- The acutely unwell adult
Perioperative care
- Anaesthetic practice
- Day surgery practice
- Foundations of post-anaesthetic care practice
- Post anaesthetic care practice
- Principles of perioperative practice
- Theatre practice
Emergency care practitioner/Paramedic practitioner
- Clinical reasoning in physical assessment
- Drugs and therapeutics
- Management of minor health problems
- Management of minor injuries
- Mental health priorities for healthcare practitioners
- Physical assessment of children
- Working with older people
First contact, access and urgent care
- Clinical reasoning in physical assessment
- Emergency practice
- Initial assessment and management of the polytrauma patient
- Introduction to practice nursing
- Management of minor injuries
- Management of minor health problems
- Mental health priorities for healthcare practitioners
- Principles of wound healing and tissue repair
- Working with older people
Learning disabilities
- Advances in mental healthcare for people with learning disabilities
- Autistic spectrum disorders: strategies for effective care management
- Protecting people with learning disabilities from abuse
- Delivering health and social care to people with a learning disability: getting it right, making it better
- Life transition and end of life care for people with learning disabilities
Physical health assessment and health improvement for people with a learning disability - The principles, elements and management of epilepsy
Understanding, managing and preventing depression in people with learning disabilities - Understanding schizophrenia for people with learning disabilities
- Working with service users who have a learning disability as they grow older
Long term conditions and end of life care
Long term conditions
- Case management
- Contemporary issues within long term conditions
- Developing practice in diabetes
- Foundations in diabetes
- HIV care and contemporary interventions
- Leg ulcer management
- Loss and grief in long term conditions
- Managing acute and chronic wounds
- Managing foot problems in people with diabetes
- Prevention and management of pressure ulceration
- Tissue viability
Care of the older person
- Contemporary issues in chronic illness and ageing
- Dementia care - principles and practice
- Developing effective skills in working in partnership with older people
- Health promotion and wellbeing in older people
- Intermediate and primary/community care of older people
- Living well with dementia - person centred care
- Principles and practice in rehabilitation
- Principles and practice of working with older people
End of life care
- End of life care (DH Strategy 2008): assessment, planning and delivery of care
- End of life care (DH Strategy 2008): last days of life and care after death
- Palliative and supportive care: from principles to practice
Mental health
Assertive outreach, crisis and home treatment teams and early intervention in psychosis - Assessment of psychosocial need
- Cognitive behaviour therapy for complex mental health needs/problems
- Concordance skills and medication management
- Foundations of adolescent mental health
- Foundations of psychosocial interventions
- Mental health intensive care
- Principles and practice of cognitive behaviour therapy
- Psychosocial interventions
- Recovery orientated care in mental health
- Risk assessment and risk management of suicide and self-harm
- The therapeutic management of dual diagnosis
- Working with families, carers and significant others
Family and public health
- Adolescent health
- Applied neonatal pathophysiology
- Applied pathophysiology in children
- Applied public health
- Care of the acutely ill child
- Care of the baby requiring high dependency
- Care of the baby requiring intensive care
- Care of the critically ill child
- Care of the mother and fetus in labour
- Children with complex and continuing care needs
- Examination of the newborn
- Fertility and fertility control
- Foundations of neonatal special and transitional care
- High dependency issues in maternity care
- High risk childbearing
- Physical assessment of children
- Promoting normality in maternity care
- Safeguarding children – an interdisciplinary approach
- Sexual health promotion and screening
- Transitional care – adolescence to adulthood
- Urgent care for children
Leadership and professional development
- Advancing skills for professional practice
- Audit and service frameworks in practice
- Coaching skills for health and social care practitioners (15 credits)
- Coaching skills for health and social care practitioners (30 credits)
- Developing practice (honours degree project)
- Drugs and therapeutics
- Ethical and legal aspects of professional practice
- Leadership in practice
- Managing change in practice
- Management skills in practice
- People management: advanced communication skills
- Research methods in health and social care
- Service development entrepreneurship – enhancing skills of creativity and innovation
- Work-based learning
NMC approved programmes
- Mentorship for practice NMC mentor stage 2
- Mentorship for practice (APL route) NMC mentor stage 2
- Overseas nursing adaptation
- Preparation of supervisors of midwives programme
- Prescribing (V300 - independent and supplementary prescribing for nurses)
- Return to practice
- See also Practice teacher NMC mentor stage 3 (note: this is a postgraduate level course)
NMC, Health Professions Council and Royal Pharmaceutical Society Approved Course
Find out more
- Download our current CPPD prospectus
- Contact our CPD Programme Office who will be happy to help you with any queries
- If you don't see a course that meets your needs, please ask us about our bespoke training and education solutions
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