Enhanced Patient Assessment and Management

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Key facts

Course code

CPD7011

Start dates

January 2025 / September 2025 / January 2026 / September 2026

Application deadline

1 September (for a September start) 

Course length

Part time: One semester

Academic level

7

Academic credits

20

This course is not available to students classed as International for fees purposes.

Overview

This Enhanced Patient Assessment and Management module provides you with the opportunity to develop a critical, problem-solving approach to the complex and holistic assessment and management of a discreet aspect of patient care, developing your knowledge in the relevant pathophysiology applied to stages of the assessment.  

The module aims to develop your assessment skills to an enhanced level enabling you to recognise changes and respond to anomalies in the patient's clinical condition, planning, delivering, monitoring, and evaluating complex care and working effectively with the multidisciplinary team to optimise health and care delivery.
 

Healthcare professional and students assessing patient

How to apply

Entry requirements

You must be a qualified health care professional with a minimum of one year of relevant clinical experience.

Terms and Conditions of Enrolment

When you accept our offer, you agree to the Terms and Conditions of Enrolment. You should therefore read those conditions before accepting the offer.

Application process

Apply through our Moodle Portal.

You will need to register for the portal prior to proceeding with an application.

Tuition fees

Please see the fees note
CPD Home (UK) part time
£1,000 per module if taken as a standalone module or £1,155 per module if taken as part of an award bearing course

CPD Home (UK) part time
£1,000 per module if taken as a standalone module or £1,210 per module if taken as part of an award bearing course

Questions about fees?

Contact Student Finance on:

Tuition fees

2024 / 25
CPD Home (UK) part time
£1,000 per module if taken as a standalone module or £1,155 per module if taken as part of an award bearing course

2025 / 26
CPD Home (UK) part time
£1,000 per module if taken as a standalone module or £1,210 per module if taken as part of an award bearing course

Questions about fees?

Contact Student Finance on:

+44 (0)1865 534400

financefees@brookes.ac.uk

Fees quoted are for the first year only. If you are studying a course that lasts longer than one year your fees will increase each year.

How and when to pay

Tuition fee instalments for the semester are due by the Monday of week 1 of each semester. Students are not liable for full fees for that semester if they leave before week 4. If the leaving date is after week 4, full fees for the semester are payable.

  • For information on payment methods, please see our Make a Payment page.
  • For information about refunds, please visit our Refund policy page

Financial support and scholarships

For general sources of financial support, see our Fees and funding pages.

Additional costs

Please be aware that some courses will involve some additional costs that are not covered by your fees. Specific additional costs for this course are detailed below.

Learning and assessment

The teaching, learning and assessment strategy of the module reflects its student centred, patient-centred and practice-focused approach. 
The module will be delivered using a mixture of asynchronous learning activities and discussions via the Moodle platform, synchronous seminars delivered via Zoom, and clinical simulation and workshops within the clinical skills laboratories.

Students doing course work

Learning and teaching

Topics to include:

  • History Taking, consultation, and documentation
  • Enhanced Patient Assessment and Examination
  • Enhanced patient Management, including diagnostics and interventions
  • The cardiac system
  • The respiratory system
  • The abdominal system
  • The neurological system
  • The Musculoskeletal system
  • Frailty
  • Paediatric considerations
  • Mental health
  • A- E assessment of the acutely deteriorating patient

Assessment

Assessment methods used on this course

Students will undertake a patient assessment in practice, which will be verified in the clinical environment.  A critical evaluation of the assessment including national and local guidelines, evidence, and decision making will be presented and explored further via viva questions.
 

Programme changes:
On rare occasions we may need to make changes to our course programmes after they have been published on the website. For more information, please visit our changes to programmes page.