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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
• Developing Educational Practice

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 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)
• Postgraduate Diploma in District/Home Nursing
• DipHE Health and Social Care Practice
• BA (Hons) Health and Social Care Practice
• BSc (Hons) Acute Healthcare Practice
• MA Health and Social Care Practice

 

 

The module provision for 2013/14 will be available shortly.  If you wish to apply for funding please contact your education/training department in the first instance or email cpdprovision@ucs.ac.uk

 

Modules - 2012/13

Semester One

• Acute and Critical Care Practice in Context
• Application of Research to Clinical Practice
• Biological Basis for Practice
• Cervical Screening
• Community Practitioner Nurse Prescribing (v150)
• Contemporary Health and Social Care (40 credits)
• Contraception and Reproductive Sexual Health Care
• Delivery of Health and Social Care (20 credits)
• Delivery of Health and Social Care  (40 credits)
• Dental Radiography for Dental Practitioners 
• Evidence Based Practice Dissertation
• Non-Medical Independent and/or Supplementary Prescribing for Nurses, Midwives, Pharmacists Radiographers, Physiotherapists and Podiatrists/Chiropodists 
  Students cannot enrol onto this module until they have an acceptance form signed by a programme team leader
• Introduction to Study Skills (open learning)
• Learning Disabilities and Mental Health Working within Quality Standards
• Management and History Taking for Nurse Practitioners 
• Managing Suicide and Self Harm
• Medication Management for Mental Healthcare Practitioners
• Preparation for Mentorship (credit & non-credit rated)
• Tissue Viability and Wound Care
• Working with Children and Young People Reflecting upon current practice
• Young People in our Modern Society

 

 

• Case Management Competences Portfolio
• Children and Young People with Chronic Health Conditions and Disability
• Clinical Evaluation of Acute & Critical Care Practice
• Contemporary Perspectives in Health Promotion and Public Health
• Coronary Care Nursing
• Dementia Care
• Developing Skills in Contraception and Reproductive Sexual Health Care
  Applicable only to those who have completed previous theoretical modules within the last two years. Students cannot enrol on this module until they have an acceptance form signed by the module leader.
• Enhancing Practice in Health and Social Care
• Immunisation Against Infectious Disease
• Infection Control and Blood Bourne Viruses
• Leadership in Health and Social Care
• Leg Ulcer Management
• Management & Leadership in the practice context
• 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 Assessment for Healthcare Practitioners 
• Preparation for Mentorship
• Promoting Sexual Health and Managing Infections
• QIPP - Quality Improvement through Innovation, Productivity & Prevention
• Service User's Perspective of Long Term Paediatric Care

Science Division

The Division of Science and Technology is able to offer the following courses/modules.  Many of these modules complement 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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