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Certificate of Professional Development in Providing Nursing Care for the Older Person

Aims and Summary.

Providing nursing care for older person is an area of specialisation that deals with the care and management of elderly patients with acute or chronic disease conditions. Over the years there has been a significant rise in the number of Nursing homes for elderly patients with different disease conditions requiring specialist care and management.

This Course will contribute to the training of nurses to manage the ever-growing elderly patient numbers in hospitals and residential care facilities in Sri Lanka with the view to upgrade the standard of care.

This Course presents concepts and skills that lay a foundation into the nursing profession.  Provides opportunities to attain the knowledge and skills that are necessary to promote health, prevent disease, and deliver advanced nursing care to older patients. This Course is to provide participants with the essential knowledge and skills in nursing management of elderly patients with multiple co-morbidities and empower nurses to participate actively in planning care and management of older patients and aged care and palliative care centers.

The aim of this Course is to
help nurses to adapt and develop the necessary knowledge, reflective skills, and professional attributes to enable patients and their families to access services, participate in the therapeutic framework, and maximize quality of life and wellbeing.
provide nurses with experiences designed to enhance and challenge existing knowledge and skills to better inform and facilitate professional, evidence-based interventions on behalf of patients and family members.
enable nurses to critically consider and evaluate the emergent nature of supportive and palliative care to effectively engage and intervene with patients and families experiencing life-limiting illness.
Key course information

 

Course level Level 4
Course Commencement Applicants may commence this course when the required number of applicants for the course have been registered.

Course will be offered in 3 intakes per academic year – March, July and November.
Credits toward CU qualification 40
Total student study hours 400
Total study weeks 32
Pre-requisites and co-requisites Applicants should have successfully completed a 3-year recognised nursing qualification.

 

Applications will be encouraged from non-standard entrants with relevant experiential learning and evidence of continuing professional development.

 

All candidates should have access to a general medical ward where they will have to complete 120 hours of clinical placement under supervision.

 

Candidates who have not completed their prior education in English are required to have achieved IELTS 6.5 with no component lower than 5.5. Other accepted measures of English language are; TOEFL-iBT: at least 12 for listening, 13 for reading, 21 for writing and 18 for speaking or PTE Academic: at least 50 for each of the 4 components or OET: at least B for each of the 4 components or Cambridge C1 Advanced test: at least 169 in each of the 4 components or CEFR Scale: at least B2 level.

 

Candidates must possess basic knowledge in IT including; MS office packages (MS Word and MS PowerPoint), internet and email.

 

All candidates must be available to allocate the required study time over a consecutive period of 32 weeks (8 months) from the date of course commencement.  This includes online interactive lessons and as well as self-study.

 

 
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