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| Programme title: | Rehabilitation and Continuing Care of Patients with Spinal Cord Injury |
| Apply: | direct to the University via the NHS Business Unit |
| Start (pt): | February |
| Mode: | part-time |
| Duration: | 1 semester |
| Location: | Buckinghamshire campus, Aylesbury |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Health & Social Sciences |
The National Service Framework for Long Term Conditions (Department of Health 2005) defines rehabilitation as a multidisciplinary process which supports the individual to achieve their maximum potential to function physically, socially and psychologically through support and intervention.
This unit enables practitioners to respond to the rehabilitation needs of patients with spinal cord injury, in a hospital setting through to discharge into the community. Interprofessional working, including patients and carers as team members is an underpinning theme of this module. Practice experience will be undertaken in the National Spinal Injuries Centre, Stoke Mandeville. The NSIC is a national and international centre of excellence for high quality diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of patients with spinal cord injury and is in the forefront of education and research development.
Your learning will be supported through a student centred work based 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, as well as specialist sessions and the opportunity to develop key skills in a controlled environment, where appropriate. 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 unit co-ordinator and workplace, a minimum of 6 competencies that you wish to develop during this unit.
A major part of the learning experience will occur through self directed study, this requires time to reflect, analyse and evaluate experiences from theory and practice, including the client’s journey through care.
Available to all health care professionals/workers currently working or placed within a practice environment related to this unit.
Contact the NHS Business Unit for fees.
See Unit Delivery Schedule below for dates.
For further information about this programme, please contact course leader: Dr Glynis Pellatt
T: 01296 734327
E: glynis.pellatt@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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