Course description
Health Assessment
This module aims to enable you to develop comprehensive knowledge and understanding of health assessment from a multi-professional and inter-agency perspectives across health and social care domains.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Entry requirements
- Ability to study at level 6
- Professional registration as a healthcare professional:
- Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
- Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- Working in health and social care
- Work based supervisor to coordinate practice assessments (10-15 hours).
Outcome / Qualification etc.
Credits: 15
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the module, youwill be able to:
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of systematic assessment to achieve holistic patient care.
- Identify the principles underlying theoretical assessment frameworks and use a range of assessment methods to inform the decision making process.
- Demonstrate collaborative working by communicating your assessment findings to relevant members of the health and social care team to ensure optimum patient care.
Training Course Content
- Multi-professional and interagency working
- Systems based physical assessment across the lifespan
- Cardiac
- Respiratory
- Abdominal
- Neurological
- Musculoskeletal
- Mental health
- Ear nose and throat
- Psychological health and well-being
- Mental health assessment across the lifespan
- Self-harm and substance abuse/misuse
- Acute and chronic pain.
Course delivery details
For the 2022/23 curriculum, our CPD moduleswill be delivered usinghybrid learning. This means that depending on the subject and content of learning and teaching, modules will mainly be delivered via a combination of face to face and online delivery, as this has worked really well for our practice-based colleagues. A couple of modules will be delivered solely online, however for most modules face to face contact time and attendance at the university will be required.
Learning and teaching methods include:
- Lectures
- Discussion
- Workshops
- Work based learning
- Problem based learning
- Simulated learning.