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| Programme title: | Recognition and Management of the Acutely Ill Patient |
| Apply: | direct to the University via the NHS Business Unit |
| Start (pt): | February |
| Mode: | part-time |
| Duration: | 1 semester |
| Location: | to be confirmed |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Health & Social Sciences |
This unit aims to develop the practitioner’s skills in recognition and management of the acutely ill patient, enabling practitioners to widen their knowledge base, increase their existing skills and explore their attitudes and beliefs. This will increase their ability to deliver flexible, timely, individualised research and evidence based care to patients and their relatives.
The unit will focus on the holistic management of the acutely ill patient and will analyse a range of subjects and interventions. A sound understanding of the applied pathophysiology underpinning care will also be explored.
Your learning will be supported through a student centred work based/ focused learning approach. The unit is evidence based and related to current local and national agenda’s. There will be opportunities for you to engage in a variety of learning experiences. In this way you will be encouraged to take back to your own practice area the key learning outcomes of the unit. This process will be supported by lecturer facilitation, including the delivery of key presentations around the learning outcomes.
You will also be required to plan how to meet the unit learning outcomes, in theory and practice, relating them to your own practice environment through the completion of the required assignments.
Additionally your learning will be supported via tutorials, group work, E-learning via BREO and E-learning library resources. You will be able to bring your reflections on experiences in practice to enable integration of theory to practice. You are asked to negotiate, with the module co-ordinator and workplace, a minimum of 6 competencies that you wish to develop during this unit.
The successful completion of a minimum of 6 negotiated skills, competence of which will be assessed by your mentor.
Case Study: In the form of a single case study, you will identify a particular patient who presented with difficulties in their overall management. A key emphasis should be made in analysing the underlying pathophysiology and how this influenced their management, and possible alternative approaches. The study should also demonstrate understanding of the holistic care of the patient and their relatives.
Boon, NA, Colledge, N.R, Walker, B.R and Hunter, J.A.A. (Eds) (2006) Davidson’s Principles and Practice of Medicine. 20th edition. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone.
Available to all health care professionals/workers currently working or placed within a practice environment related to this unit.
Contact NHS Business Unit for fees.
See Unit Delivery Schedule for dates.
For further information about this unit, contact Nigel Ingram on:
E: nigel.ingram@beds.ac.uk
T: 01582 743804
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
