Wound Healing and Tissue Repair - MSc
| Program start date | Application deadline |
| 2023-09-01 | - |
Program Overview
This newly designed innovative course has been developed to meet the needs of interdisciplinary healthcare practitioners working in partnership with people in relation to wound healing and tissue repair. This course aims to address the very significant challenges associated with wound healing and tissue repair, providing a global perspective, whilst drawing upon existing expert knowledge and experience of working with international partners. The course team are dedicated and committed staff who are experts in the speciality.
The principal aim of the course is to support and enable you to critically explore and analyse existing and developing theories and concepts that underpin wound healing and tissue repair. This will equip you to embrace a strategic leadership role in the development and delivery of efficient, innovative, evidence based wound care services.
The course will build upon your previous educational and clinical experience, supporting you as a life-long learner. This innovative programme is designed to help you gain a greater understanding of the complexities of a range of wounds and how best to support and enable effective individualised management.
It is suitable for healthcare professionals including nurses, allied health professionals and doctors registered with their relevant professional councils or within their country of practice for international partners.
You will develop a wide range of skills, learn about new and emerging evidence and gain critical understanding in wound healing and tissue repair. You will acquire knowledge to develop and improve clinical practice in the care of people with wounds across the age span. You will critically explore the evidence base towards your provision and delivery of individualised wound healing and tissue repair.
This course is
open
toInternational
students.What's covered in this course?
This programme has been designed in collaboration with clinical colleagues and blends erudite, evidence based theoretical approaches with practicalities of service development, effective communication strategies, leadership, development of evaluation skills and person-centred care approaches.
The international dimension of wound healing and repair in different environments and resources underpins this programme. You will identify ways in which you can improve your practice and develop your service delivery whilst enhancing care delivery in order to pioneer new interdisciplinary service developments at the cutting edge of wound healing and tissue repair.
The programme will enable practitioners working in various aspects of care who want to advance their skills, knowledge and practice, with people either with skin integrity issues or wounds.
You will develop critical analytical skills through interactive online learning opportunities, so that you are able to critically examine practices within the context of the legislative and professional frameworks of your own country.
There will be a strong focus on relevance to practice, practice development, leadership, transformation and strategic planning.
An important focus will be your development of higher levels of, understanding with decision-making, critical analysis appraisal of evidence-based practice and clinical guidelines is a strong theme throughout the course.
Wound healing and tissue repair including a range of aetiologies of wounds will be considered from a strategic global perspective with a focus on education, policy and care delivery, thus facilitating your professional and personal growth.
This course specifically addresses the need to pursue excellence, to be practice-led, and knowledge applied through a flexible provision that encourages you to develop you research and innovation ideas, enabling you to satisfy your individual learning needs, whilst contributing to the area of study.
Why Choose Us?
Wound Healing Development Unit
which helpsdevelop the education provision to meet the needs of patients, carers and staff.
Studying with us during the Covid-19 pandemic
The University has put in place
measures in response to Covid-19
to allow us to safely deliver our courses. Should the impact of the pandemic continue in future years, any additional or alternative arrangements put in place by the University will be in accordance with the latest government public health advice, health and safety legislation, and the terms and conditions of thestudent contract
.Program Outline
Level 7 - Core Modules
Level 7 - Optional Modules
Level 7 - Core Modules
Wound Healing and Tissue Repair 20 credits
Quality Improvement in Wound Healing and Tissue Repair 20 credits
Research: Methods of Enquiry 20 credits
Managing Behaviour of Self, Teams and Organisations (Online) 20 credits
MSc Dissertation 40 or 60 credits
Level 7 - Optional Modules
Wounds Affecting the Lower Leg 20 credits
Debridement and Advanced Wound Care 20 credits
Pressure Ulcers: Prevention and Treatment 20 credits
Negotiated Study 20 credits
Prevention, Recognition and Management of Sepsis 20 credits
Safeguarding Contemporary Issues 20 credits
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Teaching Approaches
During the course you will experience a range of learning and teaching approaches delivered online in both a synchronous and an asynchronous manner. You will attend online lectures, discussion forums, small group discussions, simulations and chat facilities with your peers and members of the teaching team. These approaches recognise that students have different learning styles with some reacting best to the voice while others prefer the written word, therefore a range is offered to suit all needs. You will access the learning materials via our Virtual Learning Environment – Moodle, Microsoft Teams and other means subject to the modules undertaken.
In addition to the scheduled teaching, you will be given directed learning activities pre and/or post classroom activities and you will be expected to undertake any reading required e.g., access to policy documents or guidelines. You will also be expected to spend time on your own independent study to give you the opportunity to read around subjects in more depth in preparation for assessment activity. It is expected that you fully engage with all of the resources available to you to maximise your learning opportunities.
The library will play a key role in your learning journey and you will receive both written and verbal guidance regarding accessing library resources.
Guidance
In addition, to the course leader, you will be allocated a personal tutor who will be with you throughout your journey, an important resource and the person to go to if you have concerns, issues or anything that may impact on your successful completion of the course.
Each of the modules is led by a module tutor/convenor and you can discuss any specific issues regarding the module with them as required. They will brief you on the assessment/s associated with each module to ensure you are very clear of the expectations for successful completion. You will be exposed to a range of assessment tasks including presentations, course work, a quality improvement project to name but some – each module has its own assessment and discussion will take place with you to consider your modular choices, to ensure you select the most appropriate offering to balance the associated workload.
The course leader, module tutor/convenor and personal tutor are all available via e-mail, teams or by telephone. Please remember that there is very little that is insurmountable but to help we need to know what is wrong, so do talk to us so we can provide you with the necessary support.