Health Sciences

ADVANCING PRACTICE IN DEMENTIA CARE LEVEL 7

You will develop skills and knowledge for working with people living with dementia across a wide range of community and inpatient settings. You will focus on improving your knowledge about, and advancing practice in, dementia, person-centred care and care interactions.

This module advances your professional development by drawing on the four pillars of advanced practice: management and leadership, education, research and advanced clinical practice. It reinforces the core principle that advanced practice is a level of practice rather than a particular role.

Learning Outcomes

Legal Aspects of Care - In-depth understanding of risk, safeguarding, accountability and duty of care and your own role in promoting patient safety.
Distressed Behaviours - Enhanced ability in assessing and managing a range of expressions of distress and in explaining the evidence and rationale for care approaches including reference to different types of dementia.
Culture of Care - Expertise in influencing the promotion of a positive culture and care environment.
Improving services - Systematic approach to identifying change or development needs in practice and providing evidence to support change strategies. - Evaluation of how current systems can be adapted to enrich the lives of people living with dementia and their carers whilst in your care
Perspectives on the Individual - Expertise in gaining and using information about the individual's personal history; personal, religious, and spiritual preferences; and cultural and ethnic background to provide a comprehensive assessment and person-centred package of care.
End of life - Expertise in working with people living with dementia as they approach the end of life, focusing on implementing holistic models of palliative, supportive and end of life care.

Teaching & Assessment

Online
6 block release dates
Independent Study
Written assignment

How to Apply / Disclaimer / Part of EPP / APP

To apply for this as a single module as part of your Continuing Professional Development please enter the application system via Professional Development.

Whilst the University will make every effort to offer the modules listed, changes may sometimes be made arising from the annual monitoring, review and update of modules and regular (five-yearly) review of course programmes. Where this activity leads to significant (but not minor) changes to programmes and their constituent modules, there will normally be prior consultation of students and others. It is also possible that the University may not be able to offer a module for reasons outside of its control, such as the illness of a member of staff or sabbatical leave. In some cases optional modules can have limited places available and so you may be asked to make additional module choices in the event you do not gain a place on your first choice. Where this is the case, the University will endeavour to inform students.