PGCert ADVANCED PAEDIATRIC CRITICAL CARE PRACTICE
| Program start date | Application deadline |
| 2023-09-19 | - |
Program Overview
Develop your skills, knowledge and expertise in delivering contemporary advanced paediatric critical care
This course is designed for healthcare professionals working in acute paediatric and critical care environments, including High Dependency Unit and Paediatric Intensive Care Unit and retrieval services. This course will enable the development of advanced skills, knowledge and understanding mapped to FICM ACCP curriculum 2015. The course prepares individuals to move into advanced roles as part of the wider national agenda to modernise the NHS workforce (Health Education England Multiprofessional Framework for Advanced Clinical Practice in England 2017).
This is the only course in the United Kingdom and Europe delivering this level of teaching and training in the clinical setting to this group of trainees in collaboration with London South Bank University. The PgCert is open for international medical and healthcare applicants on a skilled worker visa.
LSBU Nursing & Midwifery graduates are the highest paid amongst all London Modern university graduates, and fifth highest in the UK one year after graduating (DfE LEO data 2022).
The course team at Evelina are experienced intensivists and clinicians with a track record of delivering high-quality postgraduate education.
Program Outline
Year 1
This module is designed to develop the foundations of knowledge, skills and understanding required when assessing the critically unwell child. Conceptualisation and critical thinking skills are developed and linked with in-depth clinical reasoning, to address the presentation, resuscitation, stabilisation and the ongoing management of a critically ill child with specific conditions.
This module will consolidate an individual’s knowledge and skills in order to apply it to complex paediatric critical care clinical situations. The focus is upon complex clinical reasoning, generation of hypotheses, appropriate differential diagnosis, prioritised decision making and the initiation of relevant treatment plan. This can be applied across the context of Paediatric Intensive Care and Retrieval Medicine. Students must have successfully completed the Foundations in Advanced Paediatric Critical Care module prior to the commencement of this module.
The purpose of this module is to consolidate and extend students' knowledge of research approaches and methods and enhance their ability to be critical users of research evidence and application of research findings to practice. The module examines philosophical and theoretical perspectives underpinning research in practice. It will build on existing knowledge to build a critical understanding of the research process, research designs, data collection and analysis and knowledge translation. The module will develop practical skills for identifying, critical reviewing and synthesising research evidence relevant to professional practice by gaining an understanding of gaps in evidence and where further research is needed. It will also explore co production in research.
