Program Overview
Course Details
This stand-alone advanced professional development course offered by the University of Bolton aims to build on your pre-existing knowledge of minor injuries. We’ll support you as you build your professional skills, confidence and autonomy, ready to manage patients who present with minor injuries and accidents.
Our dedicated team will guide you as you explore, investigate and learn to manage minor injury presentations. You’ll study the underpinning theory necessary to develop and understand the evidence-based management of minor injury presentations. Once you have successfully completed this course, you’ll be able to safely assess, investigate, manage and refer to specialities or discharge patients with minor injury presentations as an autonomous practitioner within your area of work.
We recommend you have core knowledge of minor injury presentations and how to treat them before embarking on this course.
Highlights
Our dedicated academic team have a wealth of experience working in health and social care settings and are engaged in relevant research, bringing their expertise and passion for service excellence to their teaching.
The course is flexible and designed to fit in with busy home and working lives.
As you study this course, you’ll be encouraged to develop employability skills, values and behaviours, such as the 6C’s, action planning, personal impact and confidence, self-awareness, social and ethical responsibility, respect and commitment to quality.
Upon successfully completing this course, you'll be awarded an Advanced Professional Development qualification in Minor Injuries worth 20 credits at Level HE6.
Key Features
We’ve been offering high-quality courses specifically designed to meet the needs of the health and social care sector for over 30 years.
We have the knowledge and experience to anticipate and respond to change. Our courses and programmes respond directly to the requirements of the NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework (KSF), which is at the heart of the career and pay progression strand of Agenda for Change.
The course curriculum is regularly reviewed to ensure that contemporary theories are adopted.
Your employer may give you financial support to undertake this course, or you may be self-funded. You’ll need your employer’s support to complete this qualification because you’ll need access to a clinical supervisor who will assess you in practice to help create your portfolio of evidence to fulfil the course requirements as outlined by the University.
Completing this course will enhance your problem-solving skills and demonstrate your commitment to lifelong learning.
Program Outline
This course offers academic progression in the specialist field of minor injuries.
