Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: 1 year part-time - September start
The aim of the course is to enable you to develop your knowledge and skills of clinical decision-making in health assessment, treatments and therapies within the critical care environment. It is designed to support you to independently lead and manage specialist care provision alongside other healthcare professionals.
Combining Health Assessment with specific modules in Critical Care, this course aims to provide you with a comprehensive understanding of clinical assessment skills and their application to critical care nursing.
Designed to enable you to analyse current trends, practice and knowledge in the treatment and care options for the critical care patient group and the wide range of illness encountered within the critical care environment.
In addition to university-based knowledge acquisition and development you will also have the opportunity to undertake placements in critical care settings to embed and apply your learning in relevant contexts.
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Applicants must be currently employed within a UK critical care environment and remain in that employment throughout the duration of the course.
Applicants can only do this course with the permission and support of their employers.
Applicants must hold a professional registration in nursing and be active on the NMC register.
Applicants will normally have 18 months critical care experience. Applicants with a minimum of 12 months experience will be considered if appropriate evidence of professional development is provided (e.g. completion of CC3N Step Competencies).
Students will be required to attend 150 hours of placements in clinical practice and undertake clinical competency assessments5.
The Course Director will use discretion to accept applications based on previous experience.
Completion of the course may allow you to apply for senior positions within critical care. The clinically relevant nature of the course, which aims to directly develop professional practice skills, enhances the potential for gaining advanced positions within the field of critical care nursing. Graduate employability is designed to be increased not only through the enhancement of advanced skills but also by the development of leadership, entrepreneurial and communication skills which allow graduates to contribute to service development and facilitate the professional development of colleagues within the multidisciplinary team.
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