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.
You’ll be a registered nurse, health visitor, midwife or other healthcare professional working in a hospital, community or commercial setting. Wound management will already form a significant part of your workload. You’ll be looking to deepen your clinical and technological understanding, enhance your patient-care skills, and advance your career prospects.
You’ll focus on the healing of wounds at cellular level, enabling you to assess wounds arising from different causes within your own clinical setting. You’ll learn to critically appraise and make informed decisions about the use of different care strategies (generally and for individual patients) as well as advanced wound-healing technologies.
Course content:
- physiology of wound healing
- underlying factors which prevent or impair healing
- preparing the wound bed
- care strategies and advanced technologies
- research for healing and non-healing wounds
- developing high-quality wound care for individuals.
Our course features a mixture of lectures, student-led seminars and problem-based learning over the course of eight study days. It's taught by an inter-professional team; our senior lecturer was a nurse consultant in tissue viability. You’ll be assessed through a 4,000-word coursework essay.
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.
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. You'll receive a certificate of attendance for your records, and are welcome to take the assessment to obtain academic credits.
Dates
Trimester 1 2025/26 - Cambridge Campus:
- Online - 2-5 pm online introduction session to the module via Teams Tuesday 23/9/25
- Face to Face - 9am-4pm Wednesday 24/9/25
- Online - 9-4 Tuesday 30/9/25
- Online - 9-4 Wednesday 1/10/25
- Face to Face - 9am-4pm Tuesday 14/10/25
- Online - 9-4 Wednesday 15/10/25
- Online - 9-4 Tuesday 4/11/25
- Online - 9-4 Wednesday 5/11/25
- Face to Face - 9am-4pm Tuesday 18/11/25
Formative due by end of the day 20/10/25
Summative Exam 16/12, 17/12 and 18/12
Trimester 2 2025/26 - Chelmsford Campus:
- Online - 2-5 pm online introduction session to the module via Teams Tuesday 27/1/26
- Face to Face - 9am-4pm Wednesday 28/1/26
- Online - 9-4 Tuesday 10/2/26
- Online - 9-4 Wednesday 11/2/26
- Online - 9-4 Tuesday 24/2/26
- Face to Face - 9am-4pm Tuesday 3/3/26
- Online - 9-4 Tuesday 17/3/26
- Online - 9-4 Wednesday 18/3/26
- Face to Face - 9am-4pm Tuesday 14/4/26
Formative due by end of the day 23/2/26
Summative Exam 28/4, 29/4 & 30/4/26
Where you'll study
Your faculty
The Faculty of Health, Medicine and Social Care at ARU is primed to meet the demand for healthcare professionals, doctors, scientists and social workers in the East of England.
We've 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 our students want the very best experiential learning, and we've invested heavily in purpose-built simulated wards, science labs and skills spaces, to support your learning every step of the way.
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 2024/25
£2,312.50
30 credits (Level 7) for courses starting in 2024/25
£1,767
30 credits (Level 6) for courses starting in 2025/26
£2,382
30 Credits (Level 7) for courses starting in 2025/26
£1,850
Funding for CPD
Please ask your manager or Education Lead about available funding before you apply.
Contact details
Fiona Downie
[email protected]
CPD Admissions Team
[email protected]
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.
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. You'll receive a certificate of attendance for your records, and are welcome to take the assessment to obtain academic credits.
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