Cardiac Care: Symptoms and Management of Heart Failure Level 7

Program Overview

Cardiac Care: Symptoms and Management of Heart Failure Level 7 (7KNIM879)

Course Overview

This module will enable students to become an expert in managing symptoms and providing care for patients with heart failure. This will inform their understanding of the advanced management of heart failure and their ability to make rational, evidence-based and patient focused decisions.

Course Details

• Duration: 2 months
• Fees & Discounts: Full Price: £1,820.00
• Credit level: 7
• Credit value: 15
• Delivery mode: Online
• Application deadline: 15 March 2026
• Places: Course closed

Course Features

This course is available at both Level 6 and Level 7. Please ensure you apply for the appropriate Level (you need to provide evidence of a BSc Hons degree to study at Level 7)

Learning Outcomes

This module will prepare practitioners to identify symptoms and develop expert knowledge of the management of patients with heart failure in the hospital and community setting. Practitioners will:

1. Demonstrate an advanced understanding of the physiology of heart failure
2. Demonstrate an expert ability to analyse and interpret complex secondary assessment data and to discriminate between normal and abnormal findings in heart failure.
3. Critically apply diagnostic reasoning to differential diagnosis and clinical decision making
4. Demonstrate an advanced understanding of pathophysiology and its relationship to symptom development as well as pharmacology and therapeutics as they relate to patients with heart failure
5. To have an expert understanding of the principles of clinical management as they apply to patients at different stages of heart failure

Entry Requirements

• Qualified healthcare professionals

Assessment

• Written assignment

Teaching Schedule

• Term 3 - 28/04/2026, 12/05, 02/06, 16/06

Offered by

• Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care

Course Code

• 7KNIM879