PgC Practice Development: Acute and Critical Care

Course overview

If you’re a health professional looking after acutely or critically ill patients in a hospital or care setting, our course will enable you to upgrade your degree to a PgC and directly enhance your professional practice and patient care - boosting your CV and your nursing career.

You will follow either an acute or critical care pathway and complete a period of assessed practice in your workplace on our course, which comprises the Step competencies of the National Competency Framework for Adult Critical Care Nurses.

Course summary

This 60 credit award is designed for those working with clients in an acute and critical care setting who wish to enhance and develop their clinical and academic skills at level 7. You will be required to attend one of the induction days prior to commencing the first module of your course (distance learning students excepted). If you have studied at the University of Cumbria in the past two years, the requirement to attend the induction day may be waived.