Coronary Care BSc Hons

Programme title:	BSc Hons Coronary Care
Apply:	direct to the University via the NHS Business Unit
Start (pt):	September/ February/ June
Mode:	part-time
Duration:	2 years part-time
Location:	to be confirmed
Faculty:	Faculty of Health & Social Sciences

Summary

This course is designed to focus upon the care provision for individuals with coronary heart disease. The emphasis in practice will be on developing your competence and confidence in the assessment of needs and the required interventions among individuals with coronary heart disease. There will be opportunities to explore acute and long-term patient needs with concern for the increasing morbidity among populations associated with ageing, lifestyle and socio-economic status, and technologically advanced interventions in the complex context of care.

To deliver an effective patient centred and holistic programme of care, you need to develop an ability to recognise the importance of liaison mechanisms and the contribution made by interagency networks. This should ensure that services are delivered efficiently and effectively, whilst taking on board the recommendations from the Audit Commission (1999) regarding first assessment. If you are to achieve appropriate assessment and diagnostic skills, you will require a combination of theoretical and practical experience. This will enable you to develop the skills required for safe and effective practice via the process of analysis and synthesis, using a reflective approach.

Within your role it is important to focus on the promotion of health and wellbeing by empowering individuals and communities to take responsibility for their own health. This will be achieved by the use of interpersonal skills in the capacity of a counsellor, advocate and advisor helping to achieve and maintain optimum health.

The factors outlined above are indicative of the need not just to build upon your established skills and expertise but also to develop new approaches to coronary care practice.

This course aims to equip you with the necessary skills, knowledge and value base to enable you to function effectively in coronary care settings and become an autonomous, reflective, research minded and innovative practitioner.

Career Opportunities

You will be expected to develop your professional proficiencies. The course will enable you to focus learning and acquire new insights into the provision and development of practice.

Teaching/learning methods and strategies

The range of learning strategies will include:

Lectures
Seminars
Tutorials
Group work
Case study
Practical sessions and simulation
Role play
Self directed learning
Guided study

Using the online learning facility BREO, you will be able to access:

Learning resources – video, audio, PowerPoint presentations
Lecture notes
Hyperlinks to other web based resources
On line discussions

Assessment

This course will use a range of assessment strategies and throughout, you will be required to demonstrate an ability to:

Develop action plans to demonstrate a problem solving approach to learning

Complete a portfolio of evidence to demonstrate critical appraisal of your practice and pertinent literature

Prepare essays to demonstrate application of pertinent theory to, and evaluation of, practice

Communicate knowledge and understanding verbally, to a peer group during seminars and to a panel of assessors during a viva voce.

In addition to the above, you are required to complete the Proficiency Acquisition Manual. You will be required to achieve a minimum level of ‘proficient’ in all of the essential elements. Successful completion of the course is dependant upon you meeting this minimum standard

Dissertation/project and research

The skills and capabilities necessary to successfully complete this course require you to be able to demonstrate your ability to critically reflect on the knowledge and skills gained. This requires that you develop effective problem solving skills and apply these to practice in a manner which enables you to critically analyse the variety of evidence available in relation to your own area of practice.

The QAA have identified subject specific learning outcomes in the form of benchmarks to guide higher education curriculum developers to produce programmes of study which demonstrate graduateness. Therefore, this award has been mapped against the benchmarks for nursing.
Graduateness will therefore enable you to lead and develop practice which is safe and effective in accordance with all the best possible evidence.

Recommended reading

As stated in optional and core units.

Entry requirements

Available to all health care professionals/workers currently working or placed within a practice environment related to this module.

Fees, Bursaries, Scholarships, Costs

Contact NHS Business Unit for fees.

Attendance

See Unit Delivery Schedule below for dates.

Find out more

For further information about this course, please contact Senior Lecturer: Dr Deborah Cross
T: 01296 315481
E: deborah.cross@beds.ac.uk

How to apply:

Please contact the NHS Business Unit or download an application form from the website.

E: nhs-business-unit@beds.ac.uk
T: 01582 743048
F: 01582 743704

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• Post-qualifying course prospectus and Unit Delivery Schedule

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