PGDip — 2025 entry Primary and Community Care SPQ Community Children's Nursing

The module will enable the students to critically examine the key concepts of public health and health promotion. Students will develop knowledge and skills in accessing and analysing data to enable them to identify health inequalities and health needs. Students will debate how health promotion approaches and interventions can address contemporary public health issues that support people and communities to meet their health optimum.

This module supports students in critically enhancing their knowledge, skills and understanding to support person-centred service development for babies, children, young people and adults with long-term conditions and their families/carers living with long-term condition(s). It will enable students to understand the challenges and complexities of living with a long-term condition and maximise routine practices, strategies and interventions used to support people to self-manage their illness. Central to this module is the significance of using evidence-based approaches to manage long-term conditions and to understand this in the context of contemporary health and social care practice. The module will be facilitated using an enquiry-based learning approach with keynote lectures from relevant health and social care professionals.

This module empowers health and social care professionals to examine the factors contributing to workplace safety and the care of patients/service users, considering the influence of human factors on safety. Additionally, the module encourages students to critically assess the interplay between national patient safety policies and their impact on local guidelines and policies. Moreover, students will cultivate a critical understanding of the intricate legal and ethical issues affecting patient safety. They will also scrutinise the role of accountability in effectively managing safety and risk in the workplace.

The module enables students to understand the theoretical and practical aspects of research; how to design research informed by theoretical, methodological and practical issues; and how to prepare a research proposal relevant to health and social care practice. The module provides students with the knowledge, skills and confidence in planning and writing a research proposal that can be taken forward to the dissertation module.

This module encourages learners to reflect on their own practice and development to consider leadership theories and literature in response to a changing healthcare landscape. To cultivate healthcare leaders who possess a comprehensive critical understanding of ethical leadership, using advanced cognitive and practical skills to promote equitable practice, demonstrating the ability to create positive learning cultures within interdisciplinary teams, fostering a commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion in healthcare settings.

This module aims to enable healthcare practitioners working in specialist and/or advanced roles to significantly expand their knowledge of pharmacology, related clinical sciences and the practice of medicines optimisation.

This module is aimed at health care practitioners who work with people who are in pain. Students will be introduced to theories of pain and evaluate pain assessment tools taking a holistic approach. They will develop knowledge of pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches to pain management. These will be set in the context of current national and international issues in pain management. Students will be encouraged to critically evaluate their clinical skills and to use evidence-based methods to develop practice.

This module will explore the role of decision making within the healthcare environment. It will support students' exploration of their understanding and knowledge of the theory underpinning decision making, judgement and human factors within healthcare, and the potential influential factors including; policy, risk, finances, ethics, the environment, shared decision-making, and the actual and potential consequences of the decision. 

This module will blend critical comprehension of evidence-based theory with the acquisition of practical skills essential for effective practice as a Specialist Practitioner in primary and community care settings. Students will gain the skills to undertake comprehensive health assessments encompassing multiple body systems, using their findings to formulate a differential diagnosis. Furthermore, they will employ the consultation process to evaluate a patient's healthcare requirements and formulate a comprehensive care plan.

This module supports students in critically enhancing their knowledge, skills and understanding to support person-centred service development for babies, children, young people and adults with long-term conditions and their families/carers living with long-term condition(s). It will enable students to understand the challenges and complexities of living with a long-term condition and maximise routine practices, strategies and interventions used to support people to self-manage their illness. Central to this module is the significance of using evidence-based approaches to manage long-term conditions and to understand this in the context of contemporary health and social care practice. The module will be facilitated using an enquiry-based learning approach with keynote lectures from relevant health and social care professionals.

This module aims to enable healthcare practitioners working in specialist and/or advanced roles to significantly expand their knowledge of pharmacology, related clinical sciences and the practice of medicines optimisation.

This module is aimed at health care practitioners who work with people who are in pain. Students will be introduced to theories of pain and evaluate pain assessment tools taking a holistic approach. They will develop knowledge of pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches to pain management. These will be set in the context of current national and international issues in pain management. Students will be encouraged to critically evaluate their clinical skills and to use evidence-based methods to develop practice.

This module will explore the role of decision making within the healthcare environment. It will support students' exploration of their understanding and knowledge of the theory underpinning decision making, judgement and human factors within healthcare, and the potential influential factors including; policy, risk, finances, ethics, the environment, shared decision-making, and the actual and potential consequences of the decision. 

This module empowers health and social care professionals to examine the factors contributing to workplace safety and the care of patients/service users, considering the influence of human factors on safety. Additionally, the module encourages students to critically assess the interplay between national patient safety policies and their impact on local guidelines and policies. Moreover, students will cultivate a critical understanding of the intricate legal and ethical issues affecting patient safety. They will also scrutinise the role of accountability in effectively managing safety and risk in the workplace.

The module will enable the students to critically examine the key concepts of public health and health promotion. Students will develop knowledge and skills in accessing and analysing data to enable them to identify health inequalities and health needs. Students will debate how health promotion approaches and interventions can address contemporary public health issues that support people and communities to meet their health optimum.

The module enables students to understand the theoretical and practical aspects of research; how to design research informed by theoretical, methodological and practical issues; and how to prepare a research proposal relevant to health and social care practice. The module provides students with the knowledge, skills and confidence in planning and writing a research proposal that can be taken forward to the dissertation module.

This module encourages learners to reflect on their own practice and development to consider leadership theories and literature in response to a changing healthcare landscape. To cultivate healthcare leaders who possess a comprehensive critical understanding of ethical leadership, using advanced cognitive and practical skills to promote equitable practice, demonstrating the ability to create positive learning cultures within interdisciplinary teams, fostering a commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion in healthcare settings.

This module will blend critical comprehension of evidence-based theory with the acquisition of practical skills essential for effective practice as a Specialist Practitioner in primary and community care settings. Students will gain the skills to undertake comprehensive health assessments encompassing multiple body systems, using their findings to formulate a differential diagnosis. Furthermore, they will employ the consultation process to evaluate a patient's healthcare requirements and formulate a comprehensive care plan.