Overview
Deliver higher-quality patient care by developing your existing wound-management skills. Focus on wounds at cellular level, including factors which promote or prevent healing. Make informed decisions about care strategies and advanced wound-healing technologies. Add depth to your existing skillset, and enhance your career prospects in the process.
Who should attend?
Registered nurses, health visitors, midwives or other healthcare professionals who are employed in a hospital, community or commercial setting. You should manage wounds as a significant part of your workload.
Health Care Assistants
If you are working as a Health Care Assistant in a relevant setting, you can attend all of the teaching on this module at level 6, without the need to undertake an assessment and will receive a certificate of attendance for your records.You are of course welcome to take the assessment to obtain academic credits.
Dates
Please note that dates and delivery method(s) may be subject to change, in line with the latest Covid-19 guidelines, as necessary to ensure the safety of all.
Cambridge
28 September 2021 - classroom5, 6, 12, 13 October 2021 - online
2 November 2021 - classroom
16, 17, 23 November 2021 - online
Assignment submission: 16 December 2021
Chelmsford
1 February 2022 - classroom
8, 9, 22, 23 February 2022 - online
1 March 2022 - classroom
8, 9, 29 March 2022 - online
Assignment submission: 28 April 2022
Where you'll study
Your faculty
The Faculty of Health, Education, Medicine and Social Care is the largest in ARU, with over 7,000 students. Our Faculty is teeming with expertise and primed to meet the demand for creating health professionals, teachers, doctors, scientists and educators for the three districts we serve: Chelmsford, Cambridge and Peterborough.
We have been training undergraduates for professional roles for over 25 years, with a reputation for quality, dedication and ambition balanced with student satisfaction.
We know that to give our students the very best experiential learning, prior to getting into the workplace, simulation is second to none, for safe, realistic, learning environments. We have invested heavily in purpose built simulated wards, science labs and skills space, to support our students through their learning.
Where can I study?
Chelmsford
Our striking, modern campus sits by the riverside in Chelmsford's University and Innovation Quarter.
Cambridge
Our campus is close to the centre of Cambridge, often described as the perfect student city.
Fees & funding
Course fees
30 Credits (Level 6) for courses starting in 2021/22
£2,312
30 credits (Level 7) for courses starting in 2021/22
£1,533
30 Credits (Level 6) for courses starting in 2022/23
£2,312
30 credits (Level 7) for courses starting in 2022/23
£1,583
Funding for CPD
Please ask your manager or Education Lead about available funding before you apply.
Contact details
Fiona Downie
fiona.downie@aru.ac.uk
CPD Admissions Team
admissionscpd@aru.ac.uk
Entry requirements
To undertake this course you must:
- be a registered nurse, health visitor, midwife or other healthcare professional
- be employed in a hospital, community or commercial setting
- need to manage wounds as a significant part of your workload.
Option for Health Care Assistants
If you are working as a Health Care Assistant in a relevant setting, you can attend all of the teaching on this module at level 6, without the need to undertake an assessment and will receive a certificate of attendance for your records.You are of course welcome to take the assessment to obtain academic credits.
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