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School of Applied Social Sciences courses

• Early Years Professional Status
• Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector (PTLLS)
• Certificate in Education (Lifelong Learning Sector)
• Certificate in Teaching in the Lifelong Learning Sector (CTLLS)

CPD Short Courses

• Undertaking Research with Children and Young People
• Children, Young People and New Media
• Evaluating Evidence Based Practice
• Developing Educational Practice
• EPICT E-safety Awareness Certificate

School of Arts and Humanities courses

• Design Analysis

School of Nursing and Midwifery courses

• Continuing Care
• Health Care Practice
• Midwifery (BSc)
• Midwifery (Shortened)
• Nursing (Adult)
• Nursing (Child)
• Nursing (Mental Health)
• Nurse Practitioner
• Preparation for Mentorship

School of Science, Technology and Health courses

• CPD Provision 2011-12
• CPD Study Days 2011-12
• CPD Study Days 2012-13

 Post-experience courses

• Postgraduate Diploma in Specialist Community Public Health Nursing
• BSc (Hons) Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (School Nurse or Health Visiting)
• DipHE Health and Social Care Practice
• BA (Hons) Health and Social Care Practice
• BSc (Hons) Acute Healthcare Practice
• MA Health and Social Care Practice

 

Modules - 2011/12

• Acute and Critical Care Practice in Context
• Application of Research to Clinical Practice
• Biological Basis for Practice
• Case Management Competences Portfolio
• Cervical Screening
• Children and Young People with Chronic Health Conditions and Disability
• Contemporary Health and Social Care (Mandatory)
• Contemporary Perspectives in Health Promotion and Public Health
• Contraception and Reproductive Sexual Health Care
• Coronary Care Nursing
• Counselling Skills
• Critical Evaluation of Acute and Critical Care Practice
• Delivery of Health and Social Care (Critical Approaches Equivalent)
• Delivery of Health and Social Care (Mandatory)
• Dementia Care
• Dental Radiography for Dental Practitioners
• Developing Professional Practice
• Developing Skills in Contraception and Reproductive Sexual Health Care
• Dual Diagnosis, Social, Physical and Mental Wellbeing
• Enhancing Clinical Practice in Health and Social Care
• Evidence Based Practice Dissertation
• Foundations in Family Planning and Reproductive Sexual Health Care
• Immunisation Against Infectious Disease
• Independent and Supplementary non-medical prescribing for Nurses, Midwives and Pharmacists with Supplementary non-medical prescribing for Radiographers, Physiotherapists and podiatrists/Chiropodists
• Infection Control and Blood Bourne Viruses
• Interpreting Trauma Radiographs 
• Introduction to Autism
• Introduction to Study Skills (open learning) 
• Leadership in Child and Young People's Public Health
• Leadership in Health and Social Care
• Learning Disability and Mental Health: Working within Quality Standards
• Leg Ulcer Management
• Management of the Individual with Long Term Conditions
• Managing Suicide and Self Harm
• Medication Management for Mental Healthcare Practitioners
• Needs of People with Learning Disabilities in Acute and Primary Care Settings
• Palliative Care for Children Young People and their Families
• Palliative Care for Healthcare Professionals
• Physical Assesment for Healthcare Practitioners 
• Preparation for Mentorship
• Recovery and Mental Health
• Working with Children and Young People Reflecting upon current practice
• Renal Nursing
• Research Methods
• Service Users Perspectives on Long Term Paediatric Care
• Sexual Health Promotion and Management of Infections
• Supporting Practice Learning Mentorship
• Theory and Practice of Community Public Health Nursing
• Tissue Viability and Wound Care
• Tissue Viability and Wound Care (commencing Jan 2012 at West Suffolk Hospital)
• Using and generating evidence for developing Learning Disability practice: Becoming a researcher- practitioner
• Work Based Learning
• Work Based Midwifery Learning (Open)
• Young People in our Modern Society

 

 Modules - 2012/13

 (All modules are 20 credits unless stated otherwise)

 

    Semester 1

• Acute & Critical Care Practice in Context
• Application of Research to Clinical Practice
• Biological Basis
• Cervical Screening
• Contemporary Health & Social Care
• Contraception & Reproductive Sexual Health Care
• Counselling Skiills
• Delivery of Health & Social Care - 20 & 40 credits (Ipswich, Bury & Drake)
• Dementia Care
• Dissertation - 60 credits
• Effective Practitioner
• Enhancing Practice in Health & Social Care
• Evidence Based Practice Dissertation ( Ipswich, Bury & Drake)
• Independent Non-Medical Prescribing - 40 credits (students cannot enrol on this module unless they have an acceptance form signed by a UCS programme team member)
• Introduction to Stdy Skills (Open Learning)
• Innovation, Improvement & Change Management (open learning)
• Leading Service Design & Development - Work Based Learning - tbc
• Learning & Teaching in Context
• Learning Disabilities & Mental Health: Working within Quality Standards
• Management & History Taking for Nurse Practitioners
• Managing Suicide & Self Harm
• Pain Management
• Pre-Operative Assessment
• Preparation for Mentorship - credited and non-credit rated (Ipswich, Bury & Drake)
• Professional Role Development for Teachers
• Research Methods
• Supporting Practice Learning
• Tissue Viability & Wound Care
• Work Based Learning
• Working with Children & Young People: Reflecting upon current practice
• Young People in our Modern Society

 

    Semester 2

 

• Antenatal & New-born Screening
• Assessment in Context
• Case Management Competences Portfolio
• Children & Young People with Chronic Health Conditions & Disability
• Contemporary Perspectives in Health Promotion and Public Health
• Coronary Care Nursing (CPD Only)
• Critical Evaluation of Acute & Critical Care Practice
• Developing Skills in Contraception & Reproductive Sexual Health Care
• Dementia Care
• Dual Diagnosis, Social, Physical & Mental Wellbeing
• Enhancing Practice in Health & Social Care
• Ethics, Philosophy & Law in Healthcare Practice
• Globilisation - Emergent Futures for Service Delivery*
• Healthcare Ethics & Law
• Holistic Assessment of Adults in Specific Practice Settings
• Immunisation Against Infectious Disease
• Infection Control & Blood Bourne Viruses
• Interpreting Trauma Radiographs
• Leadership in Health & Social Care
• Leg Ulcer Management
• Management & Leadership in the Practice Context
• Management of the Individual with Long Term Conditions/Diabetes Care
• Minor Illness
• Needs of People with Learning Disabilities in Acute & Primary Care Settings
• Organisational Psychology
• Palliative Care for Children, Young People & their Families
• Palliative Care for Healthcare Professionals
• Practical Ethis & Law
• Preparation for Mentorship - credited and non-credit rated (Ipswich, Bury & Drake)
• Principles & Application of Educational Technology
• Professional Role Development for Teachers
• Promoting Sexual Health & Managing Infections
• Physical Assessment for Healthcare Practitioners
• Quality Improvement through Innovation, Productivity & Prevention (QIPP)
• Recovery & Mental Health
• Reflexivity in Practice*
• Service User's Perspective of Long Term Paediatric Care
• Social Marketing
• Supporting Practice Learning
• Workplace Coaching*

(* subject to validation)

 

Science modules/courses available within the Division of Science

The Division of Science and Technology is able to offer the following courses/modules.  Many of these modules compliment study within the division of Health.  Students wishing to undertake any of these modules as stand-alone modules would need to contact a member of the academic staff for advice.

 

• Science Modules

• Immunology 
  20 credit module at level 5  

MSc Science of Healthy Ageing - Level 7

     Modules:

• Molecular and Cellular Basis for Ageing - 20 credits
• Excercise Physiology for Healthy Ageing - 20 credits
• Nutrition for Health Ageing - 20 credits
• Future Medicine - 20 credits

MSc Regenerative Medicine

     Modules:

• Stem Cell Biology and Applications in Medicine - 20 credits
• Cell Therapy and Tissue Engineering - 20 credits
• Biotechnology and Business Development - 20 credits

 

 

 

 

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