University Advanced Diploma - Critical and/or Acute Care: Practice Development
If you’re a health professional looking after critically or acutely ill patients in a hospital or care setting, our course will enable you to upgrade your degree to a PgCert and directly enhance your professional practice and patient care – boosting your CV and your nursing career.
You will follow either an acute or critical care pathway and complete a period of assessed practice in your workplace on our course.
Course Overview
This programme is designed for those working with clients in an acute and critical care setting who wish to enhance and develop their clinical and academic skills at level 7. Enhance your professional prospects by playing an active role in practice development with Cumbria's flexible course that fits around your lifestyle and commitments.
On this course you will...
- Be aware of the evidence, theories and policy drivers that underpin decision making and judgement in holistic acute and critical care practice
- Know the professional, ethical and legal perspectives of acute and critical care practice, including diversity and cultural issues in the community and workplace.
- Be aware of the need for and constraints of developing reflective practice, managing change and of multi-professional working including concepts and frameworks for transformative reflection, collaborative and partnership working.
- Make sound professional judgments and utilise different modes of decision making.
- Search for, critically analyse and apply a contemporary evidence base for acute and critical care practice.
- Use information technology effectively, as a resource of information, as a learning aid and for the presentation of information.
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