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Continue your development as a healthcare professional. Identify your individual learning objectives and become an independent learner. Utilise your own clinical experience to gain academic credit and development at Level 6.
The aim of this short course is to recognise, give academic credit for and promote Continuing Professional Development (CPD). The course enables acknowledgment of CPD through description, contextualisation and rationalisation of learning achievements. You will be an independent learner and will identify your individual learning objectives with guidance and negotiation through tutorials with the module leader.
This course will enable any healthcare professional to utilise their own clinical experience, to gain academic credit and development at Level 6.
This course will be taught online. You will participate in a two hour induction session which will include discussion of the module and a library session. There will also be two tutorials with the programme leader. The rest of the course is work-based and practice-based learning.
You will be required to complete a portfolio of practice (3000 words) for your assessment.
We don’t currently display entry requirements for United States. Please contact the Student Admin team on studentadmin@sunderland.ac.uk or 0191 515 3154.
Applicants will usually have studied at diploma level – evidence of this will need to be provided.
You will need to be a registered health professional – Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) or Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
The fee for this course is £550.
The employer usually meets these costs – we advise you to speak to your workforce development lead before applying.
We also accept self-funded applicants and encourage anyone wishing to explore their options to contact cape@sunderland.ac.uk.
This information was correct at the time of publication.