Professional/Short course Advancing Paediatric End of Life Care

Course code
UZUYYW203
Application
University
Level
Professional/Short Course
School
School of Health and Social Wellbeing
Location
Children's Hospice South West (Charlton Farm)
Duration
Approximately five weeks
Study mode
Blended
Module Leader
Jaroslaw Turif; Amanda Williams

20 credit level 6 or 7 module

About

This 20 credit module, Advancing Paediatric End of Life Care, delivered in partnership with Children Hospice South West, will provide you with the opportunity to advance your knowledge, understanding and application of holistic paediatric end of life care. 

The module, available at level 6 (BSc level) or level 7 (Masters level), aims to advance your ability to critically evaluate and apply safe, evidencebased approaches to the holistic and collaborative assessment, planning, and delivery of care at end of life. It also aims to develop your skills to provide holistic care for babies, children, young people, and support to families and colleagues following death.

On successful completion of this module, you will be able to:

At level 6 (UZUYYW-20-3)

  • demonstrates awareness of effective planning for end-of-life care, and how to apply effective communication, advanced care planning and parallel planning into practice.    
  • demonstrates knowledge of safe, evidencebased clinical practice through holistic and collaborative assessment, planning and delivery of endoflife care.    
  • identifies and applies appropriate approaches to providing holistic care and support after death for babies, children, young people, families and colleagues.

At level 7 (UZUYYX-20-M)

  • demonstrates critical awareness of effective planning for end-of-life care, and how to apply effective communication, advanced care planning and parallel planning into practice.  
  • demonstrates a critical understanding of safe, evidence based clinical care practice in holistically and collaboratively assessing, planning and delivering care at end of life.
  • identifies and applies appropriate approaches to providing holistic care and support after death for babies, children, young people, families and colleagues.

 

Entry requirements

To be eligible, you must be a practitioner with a currentprofessional registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council, General Pharmaceutical Council, or Health and Care Professions Council.

Careers / Further study

This module can contribute towards the PGCert Health and Social Care, MSc Clinical Practice, and the Professional Development Awards. If you have any queries, please contact the Professional Development team pd@uwe.ac.uk

How to apply

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Structure

Content

The module syllabus typically includes the following topics:

Holistic care planning for end-of-life care:

  • Parallel planning
  • Advanced care planning
  • Effective communication with children, families and members of the interdisciplinary teams and services

Safe and effective clinical care when assessing, planning and delivering care at end-of-life:

  • Symptom management
  • Clinical assessment at the end-of-life using the A-E approach
  • Care planning

Appropriate ways of managing holistic care and support after death for children, families and colleagues:

  • Complicated grief
  • Processes for care of a body after death
  • Bereavement support for families
  • Bereavement support for colleagues

Legal and ethical frameworks and evidence that underpins the above areas of end-of-life care

Learning and Teaching

A variety of teaching methods will be used to facilitate learning in this module including seminars, workshops, simulation, presentations, directed and independent learning, and case study discussion through action learning sets.

The module will be structured around facilitated sessions which will provide opportunities to share experience and consolidate learning.

Assessment

Assessment for this module comprises a case based presentation with critical questions (maximum 25 minutes - up to 15 minutes for the presentation and up to 10 minutes of critical questioning).

Formative opportunities to obtain feedback are embedded into the module, through workshops, peer assessment and facilitator guided sessions.

Prices and dates

Supplementary fee information

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Dates

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Features

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