Course Details

This stand-alone professional development module offers an advanced understanding of the clinical care of adults with heart failure. It's ideal for those specialising in caring for heart failure patients in hospital or primary care.

Our expert team will support you in developing your knowledge and understanding of cardiac anatomy and physiology, pathophysiology, treatment and management, and palliation. We'll emphasise understanding the relationship between heart failure and related comorbid conditions, for example, acute kidney injury and chronic kidney disease. We'll also explore drug and non-drug heart failure therapies in detail, helping you understand their value in long-term prognosis and their implications for multi-morbid patients.

In a simulation setting, you'll learn how to clinically assess heart failure patients. We'll discuss the key investigations, including brain natriuretic peptide (BNP), the electrocardiogram and the echocardiogram. The course will stress the need to solve complex problems and develop bespoke management plans for these complex patients, which include you reflecting on your own clinical experiences.

Our experienced and knowledgeable team will support you in exploring every facet of heart failure. Accepting that heart failure remains a potentially lethal condition, we'll consider the specific needs of terminally ill heart failure patients.

All healthcare professionals can benefit from studying this course. However, we expect it will be of greatest benefit to colleagues who are already caring for heart patients on a regular basis, both hospital and primary care, including palliative care.

Highlights

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• Our dedicated academic team brings extensive health and social care experience to the course content. Along with their passion for service excellence in clinical practice settings, they're also currently engaged in highly relevant research, which means they can add valuable context and insight to your learning.
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• The course is designed to fit in with busy home and working lives.
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• As you study this course, we'll encourage you to develop the skills, values and behaviours so popular with employers. These include action planning, personal impact and confidence, self-awareness, social and ethical responsibility, problem-solving, initiative and communication skills.

Key Features

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• The University of Bolton has been offering high-quality courses designed to meet the health and social care sector's needs for over 30 years, so we have the knowledge and experience to anticipate and respond to health and social care changes.
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• Our courses and programmes respond directly to the requirements of the NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework (KSF), which is at the heart of the career and pay progression aspect of Agenda for Change.
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• We review the course curriculum regularly to ensure we include and apply contemporary theories.
• Upon successfully completing this course, you'll be awarded an Advanced Professional Development qualification in Heart Failure worth 20 credits at Level HE7.