Short courses at undergraduate level
| Undergraduate level | |
| NMC approved course | |
| 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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