PgC Unscheduled Care: Practice Development

Program Overview

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PgC Unscheduled Care: Practice Development is specifically tailored for Military Nurses working within Primary Care settings throughout the Armed forces. It aims to enhance and expand their clinical assessment skills, such as history taking and performing physical examinations. Supplementing this, the programme will strengthen the skills needed to make clinical judgements and decisions within healthcare delivery.

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Course Details

Program Outline

Course outline

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Course summary

You will enhance and expand your current health assessment and clinical decision making skills, in order to meet the increasing demands of the Primary healthcare services you provide. Focussed on the pathway specialism, the PgCert Practice Development enables you to negotiate a short (60 credit) programme of study which provides a coherent progression route, recognising and valuing prior experience and learning. The programme aims to:

provide a stimulating and challenging academic and scholarly environment for you to advance your academic and professional development beyond undergraduate level.

enable you to develop a mastery of complex and specialised knowledge and a critical awareness of issues at the forefront of your field of practice.

develop systematic skills of objective analysis and evaluation of evidence and develop confidence in appraising and implementing evidence to practice within your sphere of influence

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Modules

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Programme Specification

Programme specification (PDF)

For a detailed summary of all course content, please read our programme specification for this course.

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Assessment, Feedback, and Teaching and Learning methods

Full details are available in the

programme specification

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Timetables

The teaching timetable should be available from the end of August. Access to the timetable is through the Student Hub – you will be able to access the Student Hub after you have completed online registration. The teaching day is 9am to 6pm, Monday to Friday; please keep your other commitments open until confirmation of your teaching timetable, and bear in mind that many courses will offer placements or fieldwork which sometimes extends into the evenings and weekends.