PGCert Critical Care Nursing

The aim of the course is to enable you to develop your knowledge and skills of clinical decision-making in health assessment, treatments and therapies within the critical care environment. It is designed to support you to independently lead and manage specialist care provision alongside other healthcare professionals.

• Combining Health Assessment with specific modules in Critical Care, this course aims to provide you with a comprehensive understanding of clinical assessment skills and their application to critical care nursing.
• Designed to enable you to analyse current trends, practice and knowledge in the treatment and care options for the critical care patient group and the wide range of illness encountered within the critical care environment.
• In addition to university-based knowledge acquisition and development you will also have the opportunity to undertake placements in critical care settings to embed and apply your learning in relevant contexts^2,5.