An Introduction to Professional Practice (Level 4)

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Demonstrate awareness and understanding of the power issues in professional/ services user relationships.
• Demonstrate awareness of health equity and how social, political, economic and ecological factors impact on global public health
• Demonstrate respect for and the value of individual differences in age, sexuality, disability, gender, spirituality, race and culture
• Demonstrate understanding of the means by which people may be influenced through positive relationships team behaviours and organisational cultures.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the influence of health & social care policy in achieving excellence in care and the contributing role of digital technology.

Module content will include at an introductory level (although this is not an exhaustive list):

• Structure, governance and management of health & social care services, including the NHS constitution
• Quality assurance including clinical governance and professional regulatory arrangements
• Wider influences on, and issues for, health & social care services
• Imperatives for health and health prevention
• Patient involvement in design of service and evaluating their effectiveness including 'Essence of Care'
• Effective verbal and non-verbal communication skills and the need for active, empathic listening and advocacy
• Effective documentation skills and professional standards for record keeping
• Team-working and peer support
• Ethical and legal requirements for professional practice including consent, professional codes, and data protection
• Risk Assessment skills
• Embryonic employment skills
• Self-management and emotional health
• Reflective practice
• Academic study skills and the need for continuous, life-long learning
• Introduction to Safeguarding (Safeguarding Children and Young People; Adult safeguarding)

Skills:

• Moving and Handling
• Infection Prevention and Control
• Basic Life Support

Lectures and seminars

Guided reading

Web based resources (including Blackboard learning support)

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Contributions to debate and discussion

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: Groups discussion - verbal feedback from peers and facilitator
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: Yes

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.