Primary Care
What you can study
For practitioners with a special interest in Primary Care, we offer the following pathways, modules and study days.
Part-time Diploma or Degree
- Generic Pathway
- BSc (Hons) in Health and Social Care Practice
- Graduate Diploma in Health and Social Care Practice
- Diploma of Higher Education in Health and Social Care Practice
Modules
- Cervical Cytology
- CHD Prevention Online
- Children and Young Persons Diabetes Care
- Clinical Leadership
- Clinical Supervision
- Community Practitioner Nurse Prescribing (v150)
- Core Values, Knowledge and Skills for Working with People who Experience Serious Mental Health Problems (PSI)
- Dementia Care
- Dissertation
- Early Intervention in First Episode Psychosis
- Evidence-Based Practice
- The Family: Theory and Practice
- First Aid
- Healthcare Ethics and Law
- Heart Failure: Care and Management
- Infection Prevention and Control
- Introduction and Application of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Psychosis
- Introduction to Evidence-Based Practice
- Management of Diabetes Mellitus
- Managing Change
- Managing Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in Adults in Primary and Secondary Care
- Managing Minor Illnesses in First Contact Care
- Managing Minor Injuries in First Contact Care
- Medicines Management
- Mentor Preparation Programme
- Non-Medical Prescribers: Indpendent and Supplementary Prescribing (v300)
- Normal Childhood and Adolescence
- Palliative and End of Life Care
- Psychological Interventions for People who Experience Serious Mental Health Problems (PSI)
- Psychosocial Issues in the Management of People with Diabetes
- Recognising the Sick Child and Young Person (0-19 years)
- Return to Practice (Nursing)
- Skills for Learning
- Work Based Learning
Study Days
- Infection Control
Background
The report ‘Transforming Community Services: ambition, action, achievement’ (Department of Health 2009) highlights the desire to improve patient choice in the delivery of their healthcare. It also focuses on the need to innovate, improve services and health outcomes. The Department of Health Sciences offers a number of courses that will help practitioners achieve these goals. For example, our Management of Diabetes Mellitus and Management of COPD modules are designed to enhance the in-depth understanding of these long term conditions and develop the skills necessary to improve patient access to services. In order to provide ‘Unscheduled Care’ nurses need to become autonomous practitioners and develop key skills. Courses including: Minor Illnesses; Minor Injuries and Non-Medical Prescribing provide the necessary learning to meet these demands.