Asthma and COPD in Adults
Continue your development as a healthcare professional. Gain the essential skills to deliver care to those with respiratory conditions. Build on your knowledge and clinical practice.
Close
Continue your development as a healthcare professional. Gain the essential skills to deliver care to those with respiratory conditions. Build on your knowledge and clinical practice.
This short course will enable qualified healthcare practitioners, working in either a hospital or community setting, to gain the knowledge and assessment skills required to care for patients with common respiratory conditions, who present with acute or chronic clinical episodes. There are three routes available depending on your experience:
The course explores the patient journey from initial diagnosis, through acute episodes of illness, ongoing chronic disease management, and eventually to palliative care. There will be a focus on holistic wellness in respiratory disease, as well as on the importance of enhancing patients' self-management skills and ability to identify emergencies requiring urgent referral to secondary care services.
The course content will be taught by a team of knowledgeable and experienced staff, and delivery will be flexible depending on requirements. All sessions will be full days, and one session will be delivered per month for five months.
Working with a clinical mentor in practice isn't required, however, you're expected to work with senior, experienced colleagues to enhance your learning experience and synthesise classroom-based learning with practical clinical application.
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.
You must be a qualified healthcare professional, in either a hospital or community setting, with an interest in respiratory conditions including asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
The fee for this course is £750.
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.