BSc (Hons) Urgent and Emergency Care

• Advance your practice in urgent and emergency care, with a programme designed around the person who requires the health intervention and not the place where this is delivered.
• Focus on the provision of urgent and emergency care across the lifespan, from the young child to the older adult, in both urban and rural locations.
• A programme that is of value to clinicians practising in a range of locations to include emergency departments, community settings, minor injury units, general practice and acute and specialist services.
• Develop specialist and transferable competences within an e-portfolio.
• Learn with and from other healthcare professionals and medical students.
• Modular design that can be studied full time or part time with the option to complete the award within five years.
• Opportunity to AP(E)L to a maximum of 60 credits (must be subject related).

• Programme overview

• This programme comprises of three 20 credit core modules and 60 credits in optional modules.
  
  It may be possible to accredit any previous formal certificated learning and informal non-certificated learning, including e-learning as part of the degree pathway by Accreditation of Prior (Experiential) Learning. Please see the AP(E)L section of our website for further details.
  
  Please note that if you apply to AP(E)L up to the maximum of 60 credits you will need to achieve the three core modules to be eligible for the award of BSc (Hons) Urgent and Emergency Care.
  

  Core modules

  • HEAD360P Understanding Evidence to Inform Clinical Decision Making

    The module is designed to extend students' knowledge around evidence-informed decision making. This will be achieved through students identifying and evaluating a body of research-based evidence relevant to clinical practice.

  • UEC607 Urgent, Emergency and Critical Care: Leadership and Innovation

    This module will enhance the students' confidence and competence to lead and manage quality improvement and innovation in urgent, emergency and critical care.

  • UEC608 Evidencing Professional Development in Urgent, Emergency and Critical Care via (e)-Portfolio

    This module will enable the student to develop their professional practice in the provision of urgent, emergency and critical care. Evidence supporting the students' development will be collated in an electronic portfolio (e-portfolio).

  Optional modules

  • UEC603 Mental Health Assessment in Urgent, Emergency and Acute Care

    This module aims to increase knowledge and skills of practitioners working in urgent, emergency and acute care settings and who work with individuals experiencing mental health problems. It explores the principles and process of mental health assessment and the practice of determining appropriate intervention alongside prioritisation of client need based on the current guidance.

  • UEC604 The Child or Young Person Requiring Urgent or Emergency Care

    This module will facilitate the development of practitioners¿ knowledge and skills in the recognition and immediate management of children/young people requiring urgent or emergency care for illness/injury in a range of settings by increasing their ability to apply current research/evidence to practice and deliver holistic care to sick children and their families.

  • UEC605 Developing Expertise in Clinical Practice

    This module is designed to enable healthcare professionals to critically examine and develop in an area of professional clinical practice, in a range of settings. Taught workshops will guide the student, building on their pre-existing body of knowledge to further develop their skills in health assessment, clinical examination and clinical reasoning

Every undergraduate taught course has a detailed programme specification document describing the course aims, the course structure, the teaching and learning methods, the learning outcomes and the rules of assessment.

The following programme specification represents the latest course structure and may be subject to change:

BSc Hons Urgent and Emergency Care Programme Specification 6277

To be eligible for the programme you must be:

When to apply

Applications for this programme can usually be made throughout the year. Please check the closing date and apply as early as possible as our programmes are popular.

Apply for this programme

To apply for this programme please contact the Professional Development Unit:

Professional Development Unit

4th floor, Rolle building

University of Plymouth

Drake Circus

Plymouth, PL4 8AA

Email: pduadmissions@plymouth.ac.uk

Tel: +44 1752 586951

What happens after I apply?

You will normally receive a decision on your application within four weeks of us receiving your application. You may be asked to provide additional information, to take part in an interview (which in the case if you are an overseas student may be by telephone or video conference) or you will be sent a decision by letter or email.

If you have a disability and would like further information about the support provided by Plymouth University, please visit our Disability Service website.

Support is also available from our International Office if you are an overseas student applying to the University.