Palliative and end of life care

• The award is delivered on a part-time basis over 3 years with the option of Post Graduate Certificate or Diploma.

• This pathway is one of three that make up the MSC Professional practice therefore you will be encouraged to consider what ‘Professional Practice’ means to you in the context of a multi-professional team.

• Applicable to palliative care and end of life care in any setting.

• Relevant for students who are caring for people with any advanced or life limiting condition.

Students have valued the opportunity to work in small multidisciplinary groups, and to be able to focus on palliative and end of life care specific to their own area of practice.

"thanks for suggesting the module run by Dr Benbow …. on death certification . He was brilliant and I really enjoyed the two days and am looking forward to the next ones"

This is an exciting new award which recognises that everyone has a right of access to palliative and end of life care and services appropriate to their need. The focus of the award is designed to be multi disciplinary and inclusive of palliative and end of life care across a range of settings. The award is open to applicants who are involved with such care in the health and social care sector or voluntary sector, or who have a responsibility for developing such services or such care.

There is scope within the award for students to focus on areas of care which are of particular interest to themselves and their own practice because assessments are practice focussed. There is significant interdisciplinary learning with some shared modules.

The award is delivered on a part time basis over 3 years (with the option of Post Graduate Certificate or Diploma), although there is the opportunity to achieve this degree within a minimum period of two years and a maximum of seven. Teaching is based at the Stafford Campus and generally takes the form of distance learning, and intensive teaching blocks of one or two days.

You will study the following compulsory core and pathway modules:

Postgraduate Certificate Stage

• Critical appraisal skills and research awareness*

• Loss Grief and Bereavement*

• Spirituality, Ethics and Valuing the Person*

• Symptom Management in Advanced Disease

Postgraduate Diploma Stage in addition:

• Reflective Practice in Palliative and End of Life Care

• Understanding Death – its Causes and Certification*

• Research Methods and Methodologies*

• Option module or negotiated learning module

MSc stage in addition:

• Dissertation/Project Based Change (60 Credits)

Modules with an asterisk (*) are studied jointly with students from the Palliative Care and/or  Spirituality, Health & Pastoral Care pathways 
 

 This award aims to :

•  Equip you with the relevant knowledge and skills to challenge professional boundaries, confidently and competently negotiate change and to make active contributions towards advancing palliative and end of life care practice and service provision for the overall benefit of patients.

• Enable you to critically examine the strengths and weaknesses of current care provision, developing new insights into future care delivery to meet the changing needs of patients and carers.

•  Enable you  to act as a positive role model, working efficiently and effectively within or alongside a multi professional team, motivated to respond proactively to the demands of your role, utilising problem solving skills to aid rational and reasoned decision making.

• To foster a sense of critical enquiry, which will enable you to contribute to the wider body of palliative and end of life care knowledge and evidence-based practice, and in so doing, continue to further develop life long learning skills.

Studying an individual module as a taster or introduction to further study - all of the modules listed above (apart from the dissertation) are available in this format.

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