(1) 239 444 4399 Postgraduate Certificate Neonatal Care: Qualified in Speciality
Overview
This programme aims to provide you with a rich teaching, learning and assessment experience to support your development as a reflective and critical-thinking practitioner. You will be encouraged to critically reflect on your role as a neonatal practitioner.
Course Details
In this programme you will:
• Develop a deeper understanding of neonatal care provision and the importance of holistic, family-centred approaches to support newborn infants and their families.
• Build in-depth knowledge of neonatal physiology, pathophysiology, and contemporary evidence-based care, while developing the ability to critically analyse and apply current global evidence to your own area of practice.
• Be supported to develop the knowledge, skills, and confidence required to become a competent and compassionate neonatal professional.
• Encourage you to integrate research, clinical expertise, and family-centered principles to enhance the quality and delivery of neonatal care.
• Support you to explore the wider ethical, social, and moral responsibilities associated with caring for newborn infants and their families.
Career Opportunities
As a graduate from this programme, you will be in possession of the knowledge and skills to develop professionally and work as a specialist in your chosen field of practice where neonatal care is provided. Within your scope of practice, you will work in a safe and innovative way and make challenging decisions within a multidisciplinary team.
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Programme Delivery
The programme is constructed using compulsory modules. A compulsory module is a named individual module which is a compulsory part of a programme of study and must be successfully completed to gain the final award.
| Modules (ALL COMPULSORY) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Trimester 1 (15 weeks) | Trimester 2 (15 weeks) | Trimester 3 (15 weeks) |
| Neonatal Special and Transitional Care
20 Credits |
Neonatal High Dependency and Intensive Care 1 20 Credits |
Neonatal High Dependency and Intensive Care 2
20 Credits |
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MODULE OVERVIEW
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Neonatal Special and Transitional Care
In this module, the focus is on the neonate who requires special and transitional neonatal care to support their physiological transition to extrauterine life. You will develop your knowledge and understanding of the physiology and pathological process related to the respiratory, cardiovascular, central nervous, endocrine, renal, gastrointestinal and immunological systems of the premature and ill neonate requiring special and transitional neonatal care. This will enable you to recognise developing illness and initiate plans of care. You will critically engage with the global evidence-base on neonatal special and transitional care building relevant research skills. The principles of supportive neurodevelopmental care will underpin the management discussed with family integrated care and multidisciplinary approaches at the forefront of your practice. The module will develop your neonatal expertise, advance your transferable skills and enhance your career options in the field of neonatology.
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Neonatal High Dependency and Intensive Care 1
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Neonatal High Dependency and Intensive Care 2
Assessment
- There is an assessment towards the end of each module. You will be assessed through activities that require you to show knowledge, understanding, creativity skills and synthesise of research.
Duration
- The programme has three modules. You may undertake one module per trimester which may allow you to graduate after one year’s study.
Admissions Criteria
- A Bachelor’s degree in Nursing, Midwifery, or a related Allied Health Profession.
- Current Nursing and Midwifery Council Professional Registration within your country.