Bowel Cancer Screening Specialist Practice (HEAD393)
This module will enable health care professionals to develop existing professional skills
CPD for healthcare professionals
Key features
This 40 credit module is aimed at health care professionals wanting to develop existing skills. Looking at comprehensive health care and the complexities associated with specialist bowel screening care. The practitioner will develop competence through experience in clinical practice, utilising pathophysiological knowledge within the clinical decision / governance making process.
Module code
HEAD393
Credits
40
FHEQ Level
Level 6 - degree level
Location
Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust
Module aims
This module is designed to respond to the needs of the bowel cancer patient by providing continual professional development tailored to staff whose role is pivotal to the delivery of bowel cancer screening services. It challenges and develops an awareness of relevant national and international bowel cancer guidance / policy. The outcome provides a person centred approach which enables creative solutions to individual care and to prepares the student to work autonomously and to meet the specialist elements of their role.
HEAD393 module details (degree level)
- Apply knowledge of the epidemiology, aetiology, pathology, investigations, treatments and outcomes of bowel cancer to support patients at all stages of the care pathway.
- Exercise judgement in the selection of appropriate communication skills for both defining and meeting individual’s needs and preferences during all stages of the patient pathway.
- Apply a knowledge of patient’s social, medical and psychological problems and discuss how these influence their diagnostic and management pathways.
- Critically appraise and apply evidence from a range of sources when addressing legal, regulatory and ethical aspects of care in your practice.