Professional Development In Contemporary Healthcare (Top-Up)

This award has been developed in the context of dynamic, evolving and increasingly complex health and social care services, and the requirement to respond to the needs of society, communities and individuals both now and in the future. Health and social care services continue to undergo unprecedented change, with more highly dependent patients occupying hospital beds for shorter periods of time, with more complex care needs being managed in service users’ own homes or in the primary care setting, and nurses and healthcare staff developing and diversifying their roles and responsibilities to accommodate service demand. Underpinning knowledge is a vital component of this, as is fostering and developing higher order cognitive skills to equip students to be innovative, proactive, and reflective and a creative practitioner to prosper in contemporary services, and engage with and deliver the best evidence-based practice.