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The Certificate in Professional Studies (Burns Care) is a specialist course developed for all members of the Multi-professional Team to assist in the development of advanced knowledge and skills in the area of burn care.
The curriculum is designed to equip students with the underpinning knowledge and skills required to work within the fields of burns injury. It has been developed with an integral link between theory, clinical practice and academic thinking within the burn injury field of practice. The course therefore seeks to unite theory and practice and underpin this with research. It will challenge professionally held beliefs in order to encourage practitioners to improve the quality of care.
The Principles and Practice of Burns Care Unit covers the patient pathway from admission to discharge and includes topics such as burns assessment, management, surgery, nutrition, infection, psychology and pain control. The Burns in Critical Care unit will cover areas specific to the burns patient in the Critical Care environment, such as smoke inhalation and sepsis. The unique Burns Rehabilitation unit covers post discharge management and such topics as scar management, psychology, pain management, return to school / work and social reintegration.
Completion of the core module and an elective unit will give students a Certificate in Professional Studies (Burns Care). Alternatively the accrued credits can be utilised as an integral part of a degree pathway.
Applicants will be qualified health care professionals working in an area where they manage patients with a burn injury. This may include working within a Burn Centre, Intensive Care Unit, Plastic Surgery Unit, A&E, or in Primary Care, although in order to complete the competencies a clinical placement in a Burn Centre may be necessary.
The course may also be attended as attendance only with no academic credit.
We are looking at the potential to deliver the Certificate in Professional Studies (Burns Care) at Masters Level. It is currently offered at Degree Level and is free to employees working in burns or related areas (A&E, ICU, Community).
We would be grateful if you could please complete this 5 minute questionnaire
PLACES ARE CURRENTLY FREE TO ALL STAFF WHO WORK IN THE NORTHERN BURN CARE NETWORK
What you said...
"Recruitment in this area, and paediatric burns, is a problem. Staffs come in with little or no burns experience and learn on the job."
Ward Manager, Burns Unit
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