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Duration:
6 months
This course includes:
6 months
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Certificate of completion
6 months
Description
This course, Caring in hospitals, considers the type of care offered in hospitals, using Leeds General Hospital as a case study.
Introduction
The course looks at the people who have roles within the hospital, how they interact with each other and patients, and what they consider to be 'care'. The different approaches and contributions to care by doctors and nurses are explored and patients give their perspective on the care they receive.Course learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:- Identify the different approaches and contributions staff make to care for health in a hospital setting
- Evaluate the interpersonal relationships of those working together for health in a hospital setting
- Appreciate how patients might experience care for health in a hospital setting.
- Administrative staff
- Ambulance care assistants
- Ambulance technicians
- Anaesthetists
- Art therapists
- Audiologists
- Biomedical scientists
- Cardiac physiologists
- Cartographers
- Cardiologists
- Catering staff
- Chaplains
- Children's nurses
- Clinical biochemists
- Clinical cytogeneticists
- Clinical immunologists
- Clinical microbiologists
- Communications/public relations (PR) managers
- Computing staff.
- Counsellors
- Cervical cytologists
- Dental staff
- Dietitians
- Doctors
- Emergency medical dispatchers
- Estates and facilities managers
- Finance managers
- Gardeners
- General managers
- Gynaecologists
- Hand therapists
- Health records staff
- Health support workers
- Health visitors
- Housekeepers
- Human resource (HR) managers
- Laboratory staff
- Learning disability nurses
- Library staff
- Laundry services
- Health service managers
- Medical laboratory assistants
- Mental health nurses
- Midwives
- Molecular geneticists
- Neurosurgeons
- Nurses
- Nursing assistants
- Nursery staff
- Obstetricians
- Occupational therapists
- Ophthalmologists
- Optometrists
- Orthoptists
- Orthodontic specialists
- Orthopaedic technicians
- Orthotists
- Paediatricians
- Paramedics
- Pathologists
- Pharmacists
- Pharmacy technicians
- Phlebotomists
- Physiotherapists
- Podiatrists and chiropodists
- Hospital porters
- Prosthetists
- Psychiatrists
- Psychologists
- Psychotherapists
- Radiographers
- Radiologists
- Respiratory physiology technicians
- Medical secretaries
- Speech and language therapists
- Sterile services managers
- Stores staff
- Surgeons
- Ward clerks
- Ward managers
Course Curriculum
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- An Introduction to the Hospital 00:50:00
- The Formation of NHS Trusts 01:00:00
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- A day in the Life of a Hospital Ward 01:00:00
- Working together for Health in Hospital 01:30:00
- Update: A move towards Patient-centered care? 01:00:00
- Qualified Nurses: Working in the Shadow of Medicine? 01:00:00
- More Carers: still Deeper in the Shadows? 01:30:00
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