Health Care

Progamme Structure

The Masters in Health Care is made up of three components:

  • Core course: taught over a twenty week teaching period, from September to February
  • Optional courses: taught in three ten-week blocks
  • A Dissertation

Core Course – 40 credits

Our core course is Research Methods and Statistics and this consolidates and extends the student’s knowledge of research methods and to acquire sufficient information to write a research proposal.  This course is a prerequisite for the research-based dissertation or work-based audit and service evaluation.

Assessment

An outline of the outline of the proposed research project to be submitted in December and a research proposal of 5,000 words submitted at the end of Block 2.

Optional Courses

Optional courses can lead to a named award in:

  • Cancer Care
  • Palliative Care
  • Cardiac Care
  • Critical Care
  • Stroke Care
  • Lymphoedema
  • Health Care Chaplaincy

By undertaking the following 20 credit courses

Cancer/Palliative Care

  • Assessing and Managing Symptoms
  • Advanced Communication Skills - NEW from 2012

Cancer Care

  • Scientific Basis of Cancer

Cardiac Care

  • Managing Cardiovascular Risk
  • Managing Cardiac Care
  • Principles of Acute Cardiac Management

Critical Care

  • Contemporary Issues & Systematic Approaches
  • Developing Clinical Practice

Stroke Care

  • Managing Stroke Care

Lymphoedema

  • Lymphoedema: Diagnosis, Assessment & Risk Reduction
  • Lymphoedema: Assessment & Management
  • Lymphoedema: Managing Oedema due to Advanced Disease
  • Lymphoedema: Managing Complicated Lymphoedema
  • Lymphoedema: Specialist Service Development
  • Casley-Smith MLD Specialist Skills Update Course

Healthcare Chaplaincy

  • Providing Spiritual & Religious Care in Health Care
  • Professional Practice in Spiritual & Religious Care in Healthcare

Generic options available are:

  • Advanced Health Care Practice - NEW from 2012
  • Education for Professional Practice
  • Ethics for Professional Practice
  • Management for Change in Health Care 

Assessment

Our courses have both formative and summative assessment.  Some elements of the assessment are e-learning based, all summative assessments are coursework based.

Dissertation – 60 credits

This aims to consolidate and extend the student’s learning from the Research Methods and Statistics course.  Students undertake a supervised research study in the form of either a research-based dissertation or work-based audit and service evaluation.