Module - Critical or Acute Care: Independent Study (HCPD6267)

On successful completion, you will be able to:

1. Demonstrate a clinical capability, knowledge and understanding of acute/critical illness presentations specific to your clinical practice area
2. Appraise the evidence base, guidelines and health care policy which relate to the contemporary therapeutic interventions used for acutely or critically ill patients
3. Examine the multi-disciplinary approach to meet the physical and psychosocial needs of this patient group specific to your clinical practice area
4. Critically analyse how learning from this module may transform your understanding of your practice. 

The module content will provide initial resources to support your learning and development to meet the needs of patients with complex acute/critical illness presentations, including those recovering from critical illness, stepping down from critical care to ward based care and patients within an enhanced care community-based or pre-hospital setting.

The module leader will assist you in identifying key learning resources and strategies relating to the learning outcomes specific to your area of interest. The strategy to meet the learning outcomes will be through a written proposal, developed into a portfolio.

How you will be assessed

Your formative assessment is a submission of a proposal form out lining your own topics of choice and personal aims. The proposal will include specific identified learning needs underpinned by the module learning outcomes.

Your summative assessment is a portfolio of evidence to meet your topics of choice and personal aims, including reflection to underpin learning outcomes 1-4.

To be eligible to study this module, you must be a registered healthcare professional with at least 6 months experience of working within an acute/enhanced or critical care environment. When taken as part of a specific named award, the module content and assessment must be focussed on that subject of the award.

You must demonstrate the ability to study at this level and commit to attempting the assessment.

If you have studied the equivalent module at Level 7 then you cannot also study this Level 6 version. Students who successfully complete this module as a stand-alone module will be eligible for a university transcript of credit.

20 Credit Health Module Pricing

CPD Pricing structure

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Tuition fees are set annually and are subject to review each year. The University may therefore raise tuition fees in the second or subsequent years of a course, in line with inflation and/or the maximum permitted by law or government policy. Students will be notified of any changes as soon as possible.