Advancing Paediatric End of Life Care

This 20 credit module, Advancing Paediatric End of Life Care, delivered in partnership with Children Hospice South West, will provide you with the opportunity to advance your knowledge, understanding and application of holistic paediatric end of life care.

The module, available at level 6 (BSc level) or level 7 (Masters level), aims to advance your ability to critically evaluate and apply safe, evidencebased approaches to the holistic and collaborative assessment, planning, and delivery of care at end of life. It also aims to develop your skills to provide holistic care for babies, children, young people, and support to families and colleagues following death.

On successful completion of this module, you will be able to:

At level 6 (UZUYYW-20-3)

demonstrates awareness of effective planning for end-of-life care, and how to apply effective communication, advanced care planning and parallel planning into practice.
demonstrates knowledge of safe, evidencebased clinical practice through holistic and collaborative assessment, planning and delivery of endoflife care.
identifies and applies appropriate approaches to providing holistic care and support after death for babies, children, young people, families and colleagues.
At level 7 (UZUYYX-20-M)

demonstrates critical awareness of effective planning for end-of-life care, and how to apply effective communication, advanced care planning and parallel planning into practice.
demonstrates a critical understanding of safe, evidence based clinical care practice in holistically and collaboratively assessing, planning and delivering care at end of life.
identifies and applies appropriate approaches to providing holistic care and support after death for babies, children, young people, families and colleagues.