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CertHE, DipHE, UAD, GradDip, BSc (Hons), PgCert, PgDip, MSc

Practice Development

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Customised study to suit your professional development needs

• Full-time or part-time, starting every January, March and September

• Carlisle - Fusehill Street, Lancaster and distance learning

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A flexible learning framework

Our Practice Development framework comprises a variety of modules and courses which are suitable for health and social care workers from all fields of practice.

• Customise your programme to suit you

• Create your own programme title

• Many modules available through distance learning

• Transfer credit from other courses

Why study with us?

As a leading provider of health and social care education, we are proud of the high level of support we are able to offer to our students. We provide a wide range of high-quality courses supported by expert academic and clinical practice staff. If you join us you will enjoy great facilities and learn alongside caring, committed and experienced professionals. We have been awarded the highest level of approval from the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education, meaning you can be confident that our courses are of the highest calibre.

Course summary: flexible design and delivery

Courses within this framework can be studied at a variety of levels, meaning that they are suitable for people from a wide range of educational backgrounds. You can also select from a range of bespoke modules which are tailored to individual and professional development needs. These bespoke modules can be used to evidence learning that is taking place within your workplace.

As well as our flexible course design, our module delivery methods are just as flexible. We make the most of technology to ensure our modules and courses are practical and accessible, so that you can combine study with your busy work and home life.

Many of our modules and courses are available by distance learning, and we also use blended learning (an approach which involves a mixture of face-to-face and online learning) and provide one-to-one support through our established personal tutor system.

Continuing professional development opportunities for health and social care workers, including assistant practitioners, healthcare assistants, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, paramedics, nurses and midwives.

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Overview of the practice development framework

The framework builds on existing learning experiences and you can join at the level that suits you. The courses that we offer are:

University Certificate, Cert HE, University Diploma, DipHE, University Advanced Diploma, BSc (Hons)/Grad Dip, PgC, PgD, MSc.

A personal tutor will take on the role of academic tailor and will assist you

with your module choices as you progress through

your course

ACADEMIC TAILORING

• Pathways denote a group of modules that relate to aspecificsubjectarea

• All modules are 20 credits, unless otherwise stated


Certificate Level CoursesUniversity Certificatewith option for student defined pathway title

You will study 60 credits at level 4. Choose from the list of available level 4 modules on our website. There are no core modules for this award.

CertHE Practice Developmentwith option for student defined pathway title

You will study 120 credits at level 4. Choose from the list of available level 4 modules on our website.

Core module:• Personal development planning


Diploma Level CoursesUniversity Diplomawith option for student defined pathway title

You will study 60 credits at level 5, choose from any optional module (no core modules)

DipHE Practice Developmentwith option for student defined pathway title

You will study 120 levels at level 5. Choose from the list of available level 5 modules on our website.

Core modules:• evidence based practice• personal professional development

Case studyA student studies evidence based practice (20 credits) and personal professional development (20 credits), which are the core modules for this course. She then chooses afurtherfourmodulesthatinterestherandaresuitableforherjobrole:communicationand collaborative working (20 credits); foundations in health and physiology (20 credits); mental health across the lifespan (20 credits) followed by work based learning (20 credits) leading to a DipHE Practice Development.


Degree Level CoursesUniversity Advanced Diploma Practice Developmentwith option for student defined pathway title

You will study 60 credits at level 6. Either choose from the list of available level 6 modules on our website, or study one of the following named pathways:

Acute and Critical Care modules include:• acute and critical care: foundations for

practice

• critical care: contemporary issues

• acute pain management

• acute stroke management: contemporary perspectives

Emergency Care modules include: • emergency care: care of minor illness and /

or trauma

• emergency care: management of acuteillness and / or major trauma

• consultation and physical examinationskills

Enhanced Health Assessment modules include: • consultation and physical assessment skills

• clinical judgement and decision making (40 credits)

Respiratory Care modules include: • respiratory health assessment

• asthma management

• COPD: diagnosis and management

Long Term Conditions modules include: • case management of long term conditions

• long term condition care

• holistic assessment of the complex patient with long term conditions



• medicines: therapeutics and pharmacology

Wound Care modules include: • tissue viability

• leg ulcer management

• prevention of pressure sores

• pressure ulcers

• pathophysiology and diseases in practice

Occupational Health modules include:• legal & ethical aspects of occupational

health

• negotiated learning

• ergonomics in the workplace

• facilitating health behaviour change

Unscheduled Care modules include:

• consultation and physical examinationskills

• clinical judgement & decision making(40 credits)


Case study A nurse studies Acute and Critical Care: Foundations for Practice (20 credits).

She then enquires about other relevant modules to enhance her professional development.

She studies Acute Care: Contemporary Issues (20 credits), followed by Medicines: Therapeutics and Pharmacology (20 credits).

She realises that she can build upon these singular modules and turn them into a degree.

She then chooses another two modules that interest her: Negotiated Learning (20 credits) and Mentorship (20 credits) along with the one core module, Evidence Based Practice (20 credits), to gain the BSc (Hons) Practice Development with a student definedpathwaytitleof“AcuteCare”.

BSc (Hons) Practice Developmentwith option for student defined pathway title

You will study 120 credits at level 6. Choose modules from the list of available level 6 modules on our website.

Core module:

• evidence-based practice

Registered nurses wishing to top-up to a degree also have the option of studying the BSc (Hons) Nursing Practice.

For more information go to: www.cumbria.ac.uk/nursingpractice


BSc (Hons)/Graduate Diploma Practice Development- Developing Paramedic Practice

You will study 120 credits at level 6.

Core modules:• clinical decision making in contemporary paramedic practice (40 credits)

• evidence based practice (20 credits)

Optional modules include:• leadership and change

• pre-hospital care of women and children’s health


• pathophysiology and disease in practice

• advancing mental health across the health care spectrum

• emergency care: care of minor illness or trauma

• emergency care: management of acute illness or major trauma

• clinical supervision

• mentorship

• negotiated or work based learning


BSc (Hons)/Graduate Diploma Practice Development- Occupational Health

You will study 120 credits at level 6

Core modules:• legal and ethical aspects of occupational health

or facilitating health behaviour change

• negotiated learning

Optional modules include: • ergonomics in the work place

• fitness for work, health surveillance management

• leadership and change

• mental health in the workplace

• risk assessment and health and safety management

• sickness absence management

• workplace stress management

• introduction to toxicology

• travel health


You will study 60 credits at level 7. Either choose from the list of available level 7 modules on our website, or study one of the following named pathways:

Acute and Critical Care modules include:• acute and critical care: foundations for

practice

• critical care: contemporary issues

• acute care: assessment and management of the acutely ill adult

Respiratory Care modules include:• respiratory health assessment



Long Term Conditions modules include:• case management of long term conditions

• holistic assessment of the complex patient with long term conditions

• long term condition care



• respiratory health assessment

• facilitating health behaviour change


Emergency Care modules include• care of minor illness and trauma

• management of acute illness - major trauma

• consultation and physical examination: health assessment skills

Unscheduled Care modules include:

• consultation and physical examination skills

• clinical judgement & decision making(40 credits)

Masters Level CoursesPgCert Practice Developmentwith option for student defined pathway title


Case studyA midwife studies single level 7 modules relating to midwifery practice as part of her CPD activity.

These include: facilitating behaviour change, examination of the newborn, negotiated learningonmidwiferysubject(each module 20 credits). She then goes on to do the core modules: evidence based practice (20 credits) and research methods (20 credits), plus a negotiated learning module (20 credits) to complete the PgDip Practice Development with a pathway title of Midwifery.

If, in the future, she would like totop-upthisqualification to an MSc in Practice Development, she only has to complete the dissertation module (60 credits). If further modules are focused on midwifery, she could name her MSc Practice Development: Midwifery

PgDip Practice Developmentwith option for student defined pathway title


Core modules: • leadership or evidence based practice

• research methods


MSc Practice DevelopmentEnhancing Paramedic Practice

You will study 180 credits at level 7.

Core modules• pre-hospital care (20 credits)

• research methods (20 credits)

• evidence based practice or leadership (20 credits)

• dissertation (60 credits)

Optional modules(to total of 60 credits) selected from the range of optional modules including:

• acute care: assessment and management of the acutely ill adult

• advanced assessment and management of the acutely ill child

• long term condition care and management

• advanced pathopyhsiology and diseases in practice

• management: managing within a strategic and organisational context

MSc Practice Developmentwith option for student defined pathway title


Core modules:• leadership or evidence based practice

• research methods

• dissertation (60 credits)

• remaining modules are optional and selected from the list of available level 7 modules

Case studyAn occupational therapist would like to gain a masters degree in her area of specialism. To do this she studies the necessary core modules: research methods (20 credits), leadership (20 credits) and dissertation (60 credits), which she focuses on long term condition care.

She then chooses 4 modules that interest her including: long term condition care (20 credits) negotiated learning (20 credits) and rehabilitation in practice (20 credits).

On completing, she has gained the MSc Practice Development, with a pathway title of “longtermconditioncare”.


Induction days

You will need to attend one of the induction days prior to commencing your first module; these run in September, January and March each year. Alternatively, if you are a distance learning student you can complete our online induction package.

How to apply

If you are an NHS Funded Trust Employee:after you have decided which module you would like to study, you will need to check that you meet the entry criteria. If this module is to be funded by your employing Trust, the next step is to complete the CPD-Apply application.

If you intend to fund your study by other means, please apply through the university website:


OtherflexibleCPDcourses:

• BSc (Hons) Nursing Practice

• BSc, PgC, PgD, MSc Management and Leadership in Health & Social Care

Pleasenote,thisisjustaselectionofourprovision.Toviewthefulllist of available modules and courses, please visit our website:www.cumbria.ac.uk/practicedevelopment

Or contact our course enquiry team:0845 606 1144 [email protected]

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