Professional Clinical Practice BSc
De Montfort University
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Campus location
Leicester, United Kingdom
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
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Pace
Part time
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Introduction
Professional Clinical Practice BSc
The program has been recently re-validated and has been designed in conjunction with clinical practice to offer you the opportunity to continue your professional health care education following a flexible mode of study through a variety of specialist, clinically orientated modules and awards designed for a variety of healthcare specialities and settings.
Studying a professional and academic course relevant to your clinical practice environment will allow you to build upon your specialist knowledge base, enabling you to develop and enhance the way you practice.
A key strength of our team is that they are experienced specialists in a wide range of clinical areas of practice.
Visiting lecturers will also contribute to the modules to broaden your perspective of health and professional practice regionally and nationally. In addition, many staff members are actively involved in undertaking research within this area of clinical practice.
This course is only available for UK/EU students.
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Curriculum
- Introduction to Contraception and Sexual Health
- Contraception Sexual health, Theory and Clinical practice
- Women’s Health
- Minor Illness Management
- Consultation and physical examination Skills
- Minor Injuries management
- Surgical First Assistant (LBR)
- Surgical First Assistant (Nuffield)
- Surgical First assistant (Spire)
- Perioperative and Surgical Practice
- Diabetes Care and Related Disorders
- Patient Safety and Human Factors in Healthcare
- Patient Safety and Human Factors in Healthcare Spire
- Patient Safety and Human Factors in Healthcare Nuffield
- Supporting neurodiversity in professional Clinical Practice
- Principles of Care of the acutely Ill Adult in the critical care environment
- Principles of Care of the acutely Ill Adult in the critical care environment Spire
- Principles of Care of the acutely Ill Adult in the critical care environment Nuffield
- Recognising and responding to acute physical deterioration in adults
- Applied Care of the Critically Ill Adult
- Applied Care of the Critically Ill Adult Spire
- Applied Care of the Critically Ill Adult Nuffield
- Care of the critically ill child / young person (HD level 1,2 Critical care
- Advanced critical care of the Ill child/young person (Advanced critical care level 3)
- Fundamentals of Anaesthetic care
- Enhanced Anaesthetic Care
- Gastroenterology and Hepatology
- Stoma Care (SALT)
- Understanding chronic disease management and care
- Managing Pain
- Applied Trauma and Resuscitative Care
- Applied Emergency Care
- Neonatal Special and High Dependency Care
- Neonatal Intensive Care
- Neonatal and Infant Physical Examination (NIPE)
- Independent Study
- Therapeutic approaches to acute and common mental health conditions
- Therapeutic approaches to complex and long term mental health conditions
- Fundamentals of Infection Prevention and control (Nuffield)
- Enhancing Infection Prevention and control (Nuffield)
- Fundamentals of Infection Prevention and control (Spire)
- Enhancing Infection Prevention and control (Spire)
- Professionalism and Accountability in Clinical Practice (core module for the BSc Hons)
- The Principles of Practice Assessment in Healthcare Practice
- Foundations in Cancer Care
- Understanding cancer care from prevention to early diagnosis
- Palliative and Supportive Care
- Palliative symptom management in long term conditions
- Self-Management in Cancer Care (Macmillan)
- Organisational Change and Development
- Developing Research Skills (core module for the BSc Hons)
- Safeguarding vulnerable adults, children and young people
- Nutrition in Adults (UHL Collab)
- Developing Specialist Skills to care for the Frail Older person (UHL Collab)
- Neurocognitive and related disorders in the older person (UHL Collab)
- SACT (UHL Collab)
- SACT (Spire)
- Immediate Post Anaesthetic and Recovery Practice
Program Outcome
- Institutional credits for CPD purposes (either 15 or 30 credits)
- BSc Professional Clinical Practice
Program delivery
The program adopts a range of teaching and learning strategies.
Strategies include:
- Teacher-led sessions
- Student-led seminars and presentations
- Discussions and tutorials
- Independent study
- Focused reflection
- A range of experiential teaching methods