Postgraduate Certificate in Advancing Healthcare Practice - Learning Outcomes
Educational aims
The aim of the Postgraduate Certificate in Advancing Healthcare Practice is to equip healthcare practitioners with the knowledge, skills, personal, professional, organisational insights and qualities necessary to advance healthcare practice on the basis of key concepts relating to healthcare change, skills, and practice development.
The qualification will focus on change, change agency and the issues that must be addressed if healthcare is to advance. Change is examined in the context of healthcare policy and agendas, change agency and inter-professional working, which is addressed in all three modules. Ways in which healthcare professionals might work with clients and consumers, as well as colleagues, are examined as part of innovation in healthcare.
Learning outcomes
Knowledge and understanding
Of:
- Strategic concepts in the design and implementation of healthcare projects (e.g. policy implementation, practice innovation, research design).
- Complex ways in which context and healthcare change or project may interact, affecting the work of the practitioner who is advancing healthcare practice.
Cognitive skills
Be able to:
- Synthesise different cues to action, options, drivers, agendas and expectations before electing an appropriate stance or course of action that advances healthcare practice.
- Articulate the ways in which your own advancing healthcare practice ideas, plans and action work creatively, effectively and sympathetically with the concerns of others, team and organisational goals.
Practical and/or professional skills
Be able to:
- Identify and collaborate strategically with key stakeholders in the analysis of current practice and ways in which health care might be changed.
Key skills
Be able to:
- Articulate the ways in which theoretical concepts and frameworks taught within the qualification operate in practice, dealing successfully with the questions that then arise, either about the fit of theory to practice or the clarity and complexity of healthcare.
- Using a variety of media and different discussion forums, conduct key enquiries necessary to formulate a clear understanding of current knowledge and philosophy of healthcare.
Teaching, learning and assessment methods
Knowledge is located within practice, collegiate discussions and through the library or the web, so we lead you through a series of investigations designed to help you examine knowledge in use. Assessment here as in other areas is by coursework. This qualification focuses firmly upon skills and especially those used in practice. Your studies will use a series of practice-based and study group colleague linked investigations designed to help you to review your ability to work successfully with others in a timely way.
We use print-based guides to help you explore the contribution of concepts in practice and tutor group electronic forums to help you discuss the ways in which that discovered there might inform your theoretical understanding of the advancement of healthcare practice. We use a module-wide forum to introduce you to current and developing arguments about the nature of healthcare practice and what represents improvements there.
Our guides to your investigations in practice are rich with suggestions and advice for your local discussions with colleagues.