PgCert/PgDip Person-Centred Practice (Advancing Care Home Practice)

at Queen Margaret University

To obtain a PgCert, you must complete the following three core modules (60 credits):
 

• Theory and Practice of Person-centred Health and Wellbeing (20 credits): This module facilitates learners’ explorations of some of the concepts, principles and theories underpinning person-centred practice in a variety of care settings and from a variety of perspectives: the prevention of ill-health, anticipatory care, and the promotion of health and wellbeing. By undertaking this module, learners will develop expertise in understanding and responding to the needs of person, families and communities in a way that is consistent with the theoretical underpinnings and the values of person-centredness throughout the lifespan.
• Leading Person-centred Practice for Health and Wellbeing (20 credits): The learner will gain a wider understanding of how different sources of evidence and knowledge contribute to the development, delivery and evaluation of innovative health and wellbeing practice when working with the person, families and communities, and of contemporary research consistent with the values of person-centredness. There will be a focus on leadership and collaborative ways of working, evidence generation and implementation of health and wellbeing approaches for healthful cultures.
• Advancing Care Home Practice (20 credits): This module will appeal to clinicians and non-clinicians alike and will encourage learners to consider themselves as leaders of care home practice where residents, families and staff experience a person-centred culture where their human rights are upheld. Learners will consider the strategic context of care home practice and relevant ethical, professional and legal frameworks within which they practice. Embedding a sound knowledge of gerontology and frailty, they will critically evaluate their role in developing systems and processes that embed safe and effective holistic practices. They will focus their practice on promoting health and well-being for people with a range of physical and cognitive impairments through person-centred approaches.

To then obtain a PgDip, you will chose to progress on a clinical or non-clinical route and complete 60 credits from a range of options.

Suggested clinical route – 60 credits from the following options:
 

• Advancing Practice in Clinical Assessment (20 credits): The content of the module will focus on the evidence base of practice, developing the clinical competency of the learner to provide a systematic physical assessment. This will incorporate patient history taking, assessment and management relating to the cardiovascular, respiratory, gastro-intestinal, renal and neurological systems as well as pain assessment and management. Proactive care, supported self-management, professional accountability, care management, case management, inter professional working, problem solving and clinical decision making, long term conditions management will also be integrated into the learning within the module.
• Independent and Supplementary Prescribing for Health Care Professionals* (40 credits): The module will cover content as indicated as requirement by professional bodies:
   

1. Consultation, decision-making tools and therapy, including referral
2. Clinical decision-making
3. Influences on and psychology of prescribing
4. Prescribing in a team context
5. Clinical pharmacology, including the effectives of co-morbidity
6. Evidence-based practice and clinical governance in relation to prescribing practice
7. Legal, policy and ethical aspects of prescribing practice
8. Prescribing governance and patient safety
9. Professional accountability and responsibility including appropriate documentation
10. Prescribing in the public health context including out of hours contexts
11. Local prescribing formularies – development and utilisation
12. Completion of drug profiles for individual learning and clinical context
13. Person-centredness
14. Critical reflection 
                    

• Making Judgments and Decisions in Practice (20 credits): The focus of this module is on examining and evaluating judgements and decisions in practice, drawing on relevant sources of robust evidence, contemporary ethics and grounded in the real world of practice.
• A Person-centred Approach to Working with People with Complex Pain and Symptoms (20 credits): This module facilitates learners’ to engage in the critical exploration of the evidence base surrounding complex pain and symptoms; their definition; impact on quality of life and how to holistically approach the assessment and management of these symptoms. By undertaking this module, learners will develop expertise in adopting a person centred approach to understanding and responding to patients’ complex pain and symptoms.
• Building a Therapeutic Relationship with People who have Palliative Care Needs (20 credits): This module facilitates learners’ to develop advanced communication skills in palliative and end of life care whilst examining the evidence base behind it. Learners will gain knowledge of psychological, social and spiritual models and theories and how they can influence approaches to the assessment and management of patients and their families in a palliative care context. By undertaking this module, learners will develop expertise in adopting a person centred approach to communicating with and understanding and responding to patients’ psychological, social and spiritual needs.

Suggested non-clinical route – 60 credits from the following options:
 

• Strategy and Leadership (20 credits): To provide the concepts, frameworks and techniques of strategic management and leadership decision-making that enables students to critically evaluate and synthesise competitive conditions, appraise corporate capabilities and lead businesses towards a sustainable and competitive advantage in industry
• Strategic Human Resource Management (20 credits): To enable students to:
  - Develop knowledge and critical understanding of the core theories and concepts in the area of human resource management (HRM)
  - Understand relevant theory and develop analytical skills which can be applied to managing people and leading change in their workplace and organisations.
  - Develop a critical awareness and understanding of the employment relationship and reflect critically on the realities of contemporary human resource management.
• Accounting for Managers (20 credits):
  This module develops critical understanding of essential management accounting and finance topics within a business environment, to develop critical understanding of the importance of managing customer value parameters (cost, quality, and time) through management accounting practices for value creation
• Independent study (20 credits)

*Please check the course content and entry requirements for the Independent and Supplementary Prescribing for Health Care Professionals. It is a NMC approved qualification, requiring an up-to-date Criminal Records Check.

• Candidates will normally be graduates with evidence of relevant recent academic study.
• Non-standard entry routes can also be considered, and would be assessed by the academic programme team on a case by case basis.
• Employment in a care home practice area.

International: Where your honours degree has not been studied in English, you will be required to provide evidence of English language competence at no less than IELTS 6.5 with no individual component score less than 6.0

Interview: No interview but a letter of support from their manager.

Scotland/UK/ROI    
£6,000

International
£16,500 #

Learners on this programme will have a substantive clinical or management post in a care home organization.