Modules

• Skills for Academic and Professional Development in Nursing and the Allied Health Professions

  The aim of this module is to ensure that you have a clear understanding of the requirements of academic study by providing you with a range of skills to enable you to study at degree level.   Alongside this, successful completion of this module will give you an understanding of the vital role that literacy and numeracy plays in the health professions today.   You will meet the Level 2 Numeracy core content set out by the Department for Education through application to the vocational setting. 

• Fundamentals of Anatomy, Physiology and Pathology for Nursing and the Allied Health Professions

  The human body is a complex system performing a multitude of functions every day and like any system, it can malfunction for a variety of reasons.  This module introduces you to fundamental knowledge of anatomy and physiology and its relationship with health and disease.  You will be able to relate this knowledge and understanding of the working of the human body in order to enhance care and promote an individual’s full potential.  You have the opportunity to undertake practical activities including taking measurements of the cardio-vascular system, the respiratory system and of body temperature, using non-invasive techniques to investigate normal responses to routine variations in body functioning.

• Introduction to Professional Practice and Regulatory Standards

  Successful completion of this module will enable you to become familiar with the professional and regulatory standards in relation to your chosen health profession. You will explore the current challenges to these within your chosen profession whilst exploring areas for good practice and service development. Issues around law and ethics, accountability and professionalism and clinical governance will become familiar discussion points.

  You will gain confidence in your ability to challenge practice through this knowledge and in relating it to your preferred profession.

  Professional resilience within the health professions will be discussed and strategies on how to achieve this and indeed its impact on delivering holistic care will be debated. You will be able to explore your own resilience and develop strategies that will support you with your future studies and career.

• Approaches to Health and Wellbeing for the Health Professional

  This module will examine how health and wellbeing are viewed in society, enabling you to challenge definitions and perspectives of health and ill-health. Models of health will be explored alongside health beliefs allowing you to determine professional approaches to health and wellbeing. The impact of social determinants of health will be examined in order to identify the environmental conditions that promote good health for all.

  You will explore the role of Public Health - locally, nationally and internationally - as an essential aspect of the health professions. Health promotion strategies will be examined and their impact upon health behaviours debated giving you essential tools for working with community health.

  All modules are mandatory and have 2 assessments in each module.

  We regularly review our course content, to make it relevant and current for the benefit of our students. For these reasons, course modules may be updated.

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