Continuing Professional Development (short course)
Blended learning, Cambridge, Chelmsford
12 weeks
Module level: 6 and 7
Module credits: 30 credits
Deliver higher-quality patient care by developing your existing wound-management skills. Focus on wounds at cellular level, including factors which promote or prevent healing. Make informed decisions about care strategies and advanced wound-healing technologies. Add depth to your existing skillset, and enhance your career prospects in the process.
You’ll be a registered nurse, health visitor, midwife or other healthcare professional working in a hospital, community or commercial setting. Wound management will already form a significant part of your workload. You’ll be looking to deepen your clinical and technological understanding, enhance your patient-care skills, and advance your career prospects.
You’ll focus on the healing of wounds at cellular level, enabling you to assess wounds arising from different causes within your own clinical setting. You’ll learn to critically appraise and make informed decisions about the use of different care strategies (generally and for individual patients) as well as advanced wound-healing technologies.
Course content:
Our course features a mixture of lectures, student-led seminars and problem-based learning over the course of eight study days. It's taught by an inter-professional team; our senior lecturer was a nurse consultant in tissue viability. You’ll be assessed through a 4,000-word coursework essay.
Registered nurses, health visitors, midwives or other healthcare professionals who are employed in a hospital, community or commercial setting. You should manage wounds as a significant part of your workload.
If you are working as a Health Care Assistant in a relevant setting, you can attend all of the teaching on this module at level 6, without the need to undertake an assessment. You'll receive a certificate of attendance for your records, and are welcome to take the assessment to obtain academic credits.
Trimester 2: Chelmsford (Blended learning) - now full
31 January 2023 - Face to face - 10am-1pm and 2pm-5pm, Chelmsford campus
7 February - Online
8 February - Online
28 February - Online
1 March - Online
14 March - Face to face - 10am-1pm and 2pm-5pm, Chelmsford campus
21 March - Online
22 March - Online
The Faculty of Health, Education, Medicine and Social Care is the largest in ARU, with over 7,000 students. Our Faculty is teeming with expertise and primed to meet the demand for creating health professionals, teachers, doctors, scientists and educators for the three districts we serve: Chelmsford, Cambridge and Peterborough.
We have been training undergraduates for professional roles for over 25 years, with a reputation for quality, dedication and ambition balanced with student satisfaction.
We know that to give our students the very best experiential learning, prior to getting into the workplace, simulation is second to none, for safe, realistic, learning environments. We have invested heavily in purpose built simulated wards, science labs and skills space, to support our students through their learning.
Our striking, modern campus sits by the riverside in Chelmsford's University and Innovation Quarter.
Our campus is close to the centre of Cambridge, often described as the perfect student city.
£2,312.50
£1,583
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To undertake this course you must:
If you are working as a Health Care Assistant in a relevant setting, you can attend all of the teaching on this module at level 6, without the need to undertake an assessment. You'll receive a certificate of attendance for your records, and are welcome to take the assessment to obtain academic credits.
Short course continuing professional development (12 weeks)
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