PgCert Neonatal Care: Qualified in Speciality

Edinburgh Napier University

Overview

The programme is designed as multiprofessional mode of study, to enrich your knowledge of different aspects of neonatal care provision across the various professions involved in delivery of holistic neonatal and family centred care. We aim to provide you with a teaching, learning and assessment experience that allows you to develop as a reflective practitioner who is in possession of in-depth knowledge of neonatal physiology and pathophysiology. This understanding will also incorporate the application of global evidence-based care strategies which will support you in becoming a knowledgeable, competent, and skilled professional in your field of practice. It also aims to develop you as a critical thinker. We aim to provide you with teaching and learning experiences that will support your growth and development as a reflective and critical thinker who can apply research skills to neonatal care and contribute positively to neonatal practice. This learning opportunity will not only focus on training for the demands of professional practice, but it will also explore the moral responsibilities that come with local, national and global citizenship.

Course details

This part-time blended online course will take up to a year to complete and is structured to support the student through their journey. Youll learn by a variety of teaching methods including lectures, guest lectures, tutorials and independent study. Your knowledge and understanding will be developed using a variety of online teaching, learning and assessment methods, utilising both asynchronous and synchronous learning opportunities.

Live lectures will be delivered using Microsoft Teams, allowing for live discussion with peers. These synchronous activities will not only help you to develop specific discussion skills, but they will also help you to develop relationships with your fellow students. Asynchronous activities will be set within each module site of the universitys virtual learning environment in the form of workbooks (learning materials and activities to engage the learner online), academic activities (such as reviewing literature accessing, reviewing case studies and other learning resources, viewing podcasts and recorded sessions), peer and tutor led discussion boards, action learning sets and other forums for presenting/engaging in further discussion/review and application of learning. These activities will be mounted within each module site within the universitys virtual learning environment. The nature of these asynchronous learning activities means that you can complete these activities within a time rather than at a set time.