About This Course
This is a part-time, level 6 short course delivered on our Bangor campus.
This short course is also available to study at level 7. Please follow the link for further information: Foundations in Palliative Health (level 7)
Who is this course for?
This short course is suitable for people working in health and care related settings e.g. healthcare professionals, including, doctors, pharmacists, nurses, physiotherapist, paramedics, and allied health professionals.
This course will also be of interest to professionals who have responsibility for patient care, quality & safety.
Why study this course?
Patients deserve palliative care services to be of the highest quality and to be well coordinated in whichever area they choose to be cared for i.e. hospital, home, care home or hospice.
In order to support staff to provide excellent palliative care, this programme has been developed in partnership with St David’s Hospice, Llandudno, with expert staff who can share their experiences with knowledge in the field of palliative care.
The Foundations in Palliative Care short course will provide broad insight into palliative care across settings and will include communication in uncertainty, ethics at end of life, symptom control, MDT working, terminal care and the dying adult.
How long does this course take to complete?
This short course is usually delivered during semester 1 of the academic year, starting in September.
The teaching will be delivered for 7.5 hours a week over 8 weeks.
Tutor
Natalie is a Lecturer in Adult Nursing, within the School of Health Sciences.
Course Content
What will you study on this course?
Patients deserve palliative care services to be of the highest quality and to be well coordinated in whichever area they choose to be cared for i.e. hospital, home, care home or hospice.
In order to support staff to provide excellent palliative care, this programme has been developed in partnership with St David’s Hospice, Llandudno, with expert staff who can share their experiences with knowledge in the field of palliative care.
The Foundations in Palliative Care short course will provide broad insight into palliative care across settings and will include communication in uncertainty, ethics at end of life, symptom control, MDT working, terminal care and the dying adult.
What will attendees get out of the course?
Content will include but is not limited to:
- Specialist and generalist palliative care
- Palliative and end of life care across acute, hospice and community settings
- Recognising the dying adult
- Ethical decision making
- Involving patients and significant others in care
- Advanced communication training
- Educating the patient and significant others in their care
- Dealing with strong emotions, denial and unrealistic expectations
- Care planning and the textual organisation of care
- Symptom control and complications
- Pain and the management of pain
- Delirium, confusion, restlessness and agitation
- Noisy breathing
- Constipation
- Mouth care
- Dyspnoea
By the end of this short course, learners will be able to:
- Demonstrate understanding of palliative and end of life care needs in a variety of patient settings.
- Demonstrate the ability to provide holistic assessment and care in relation to patients with palliative and end of life care needs.
- Demonstrate and evaluate how communication is central to patients with palliative needs and significant others.
- Demonstrate, and be able to identify multidisciplinary care input for people with palliative care needs and their families.
Course Cost
- Enquiries regarding Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB) funding should be directed to bcu.nurseeducation@wales.nhs.uk.
- Funding opportunities may be available for those working locally (i.e. in the north Wales and Powys areas), please contact the relevant module co-ordinator for details.
- All other application and funding related enquiries should be directed to the module co-ordinator .
Entry Requirements
The School will consider applications from working professionals on an individual basis. Please contact the team to discuss further.
Application
How to Apply
Please make sure you read and follow the step-by-step application guide as this will specify which sections of the application form are compulsory for the type of course you want to apply for and save you time.
Please prepare the following information (in a Word document):
- Current employment details;
- Years of experience, and employment history (where relevant)
- Name of staff member and organisation that have approved your funding for this module.
This will speed up the process of completing the application form.
To apply for this course, you need to create an account in our APPLICANT PORTAL
You will need access to the email address you specify while creating your account to confirm it.
(Personal, Info, Contact)
After creating an account, you will see a homepage with several tabs:
- Personal
- Programme
- Info
- Contact
- Education
- Employment
- Language
- Finance
You need to complete all sections before submitting your application.
When a section is complete, a ‘tick’ symbol will appear below it.
- Click on ‘Non-graduating applications / Stand alone Modules’, then select ‘Non-graduating Undergraduate’.
- In the next section, select Non-Graduating Taught Modules in Health(NGGT/HEALTH) Click Save and Continue.
- On the next page, the default for the first question is Full Time. You need to change this to ‘Part time’:
- You now need to input the module code. Foundations in Palliative Care: the code is NHS:3208. This section must be completed for your application to be processed.
- You also need to state the start date. Please make your selection, then click ‘Save and Continue’.
- IMPORTANT: You do not need to write a personal statement to apply for this course. Instead, please upload the document including employment, experience and education information that you have created prior to starting the application that contains the name of your current employer, the number of years of experience you have, and your highest qualification to date. Click Save and continue
You only need to enter the details of your highest qualification to date, e.g. if you have a postgraduate qualification, please only only include this.
You will be asked for evidence of the qualification. Please either upload a copy of your qualification if it's easily accessible, or upload the Word document again (that you prepared earlier).
Please scroll to the bottom of the page and click on ‘I have no employment history’ (as you have already provided this in your Word document).
If you are HEIW / Health Board funded, please answer the questions as follows:
- How will you finance your studies? Sponsored
- Exact name of funding authority: Health Board
- Country: United Kingdom
- Give details of the amount of the award? Fully funded.
- Sponsorship will cover: Tuition Fees
- Have you been awarded this funding? Please select ‘yes’ * Note that you will be required to upload evidence of the funding. If you wish to confirm ‘yes’ to this question, but do not have any written confirmation to upload, you can upload your Word document here again.
If you are self-funding, please provide all details as appropriate.