Module - Management of Major Illness and Major Trauma (Level 7)
Principles of trauma management. Assessment and management of traumatic: head injuries, skeletal injuries, spinal injuries, thoracic injuries, abdominal injuries, facial injuries wounds and burns. Breaking bad news and effective communication in emergency care settings. Legal, ethical and policy considerations. Inclusive of patient centred care at all times.
This module consists of all online distance learning and there are no face-to-face sessions or live webchats for this course. It does compromise of 6 threads which are date restricted and the work for each thread does have to be completed within these time frames. Thread 6 is a formative short assignment (750 words) which is actually one of the final assignments learning outcomes and there is a summative assignment at the end (3500 words) which is a case study on x1 Major Trauma and x1 Major Illness, with the assessment strategies for breaking bad news (BBN), BBN models and legal, ethical principles within this BBN remit.
20 Credit Health Module Pricing
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