Year 1 core modules

• Advanced Trauma and Emergency Care within the Pre-hospital Setting

  (30 credits level 7) This module has been devised to enable experienced registered health care professionals (for example: registered with General Medical Council, Nursing & Midwifery Council, Health & Care Professions Council), to enhance their knowledge base of this rapidly moving clinical speciality and develop the skills required to manage and lead a team during a pre-hospital emergency situation. This module will enable all students regardless of their previous experience to be able to operate in complex and unpredictable situations and perform smoothly with precision and effectiveness within Pre-Hospital Trauma Care.

• Research Studies

  (30 credits level 7)This module is designed to provide students with a critical overview of the main methodologies and designs applied to research within health, social work and social care, professional practice and policy. It provides students with an opportunity to explore the theoretical dilemmas which underlie the process of inquiry and its relationship to practice. All health, social work & social care professionals need to be highly skilled and knowledgeable to meet the demands of complex activity which underpins much professional practice and demonstrate that research directly informs practice.

Year 2 core modules

• Advanced Management and Specialist Practice in Pre-hospital Care

  (30 Credits Level 7) This module is designed to build on the knowledge and skills of experienced practitioners in regard to major incident management, safe transfer and retrieval and pre-hospital obstetric emergencies. Students will develop to the required level of knowledge and skill to lead a team in the management and assessment of complex and unpredictable situations which arise during major incident management. They will learn to manage this complex situation whilst ensuring delivery of safe transfer and retrieval procedures for patients. The module will further enable students to lead and manage the assessment and care of pre-hospital obstetric emergencies prior to arrival the acute care setting.

• Major Project

  (60 credits level 7) Students progressing to MSc will undertake a substantial piece of research in the area of their own practice. Graduates of our MSc pathways have already produced some excellent pieces of research some of which have been published. The focus of the Major Project can be:Primary Data Collection Project; Systematic Review Project; Work based project. Students choosing to undertake the work based project will be able to discuss with the course leader, Major Project supervisor and the students employer to ensure that the research topic and question are suitably focused within the specialism and are achievable within the timescale for the course.

Optional modules

• Global Leadership

  (30 credits level 7) The aim of this module is to provide knowledge and skills to complement and scaffold the compulsory core modules. Students will be introducing their new and advanced Pre-Hospital Trauma care techniques into high-level clinical practice areas requiring them to have good leadership and management skills to take this innovative practice forward. In addition, it aims to advance the student's decision-making skills through critical reflection particularly in the area of advanced organisational practice. The demands of modern healthcare systems require the development of roles for confident autonomous organisational practitioners, who possess the knowledge and skills to implement complex decisions in a rapidly changing health sector environment and to play key roles in service development.

• Advancing Professional Decision Making

  (30 Credits level 7) Students will be encouraged to focus on new or advanced areas of service developments and consider issues such as ethics, legislation and quality assurance. They will need to be able to utilise both strategic and operational decision making skills within an area of advanced organisational development and or practice and to develop strategies to facilitate the implementation of the outcomes of the decision making process, either as an individual or within a team/organisational context. The students will contextualise these skills to their own area of service and expertise.