CPD Heart Failure - Interdisciplinary Approach to Management and Care

This exciting NEW for 2024 course offers students the opportunity to explore and enhance understanding of the concepts surround the care and management of patients with heart failure.  

Living with heart failure is becoming increasingly common due to our ageing population and improving medical care. In 2018, 920,000 people were living with heart failure in the UK, with around 200,000 new diagnoses made annually. People living with heart failure require significant input from NHS services and the burden to the NHS accounts for 2% of the total NHS budget and for 5% of all emergency hospital admissions in the UK, making this specialist knowledge invaluable to health professionals from a variety of specialist areas and backgrounds. 

Undertaking this programme enables the student to be at the forefront of understanding how to manage and care for those living with or affected by heart failure in the UK. 

This course is currently undergoing its scheduled programme review, which may impact the advertised modules. Programme review is a standard part of the University’s approach to quality assurance and enhancement, enabling us to ensure that our courses remain up to date and maintain their high standard and relevancy.

Once the review is completed, this course website page will be updated to reflect any approved changes to the advertised course. These approved changes will also be communicated to those who apply for the course to ensure they wish to proceed with their application.

This masters level continued professional development (CPD) course at LJMU is delivered across 15 weeks and is studied part-time.  This 20 credit programme allows you to exit with the CPD in Heart Failure: Interdisciplinary Approach to Management and Care award.

The structure of the course is designed to enhance the students understanding and knowledge of heart failure both from a healthcare professional, patient and carer perspective .

The programme is delivered through a combination of face to face and online learning. The face-to-face learning is delivers through a variety of means via lectures, seminars, workshops, group work and includes up to 4 hours within the simulated learning environment.  Online learning will be underpinned and supported through the VLE with use of Canvas and other tools available within the LJMU virtual learning environment. 

Teaching and learning will be supported by subject experts from cardiology and cardiothoracic backgrounds.

Tutorial support will be provided by the module lead and will support the student to select and develop the case study towards their assessment.

Students on the programme are strongly encouraged to seek out and arrange their own negotiated opportunities for learning within a cardiac clinical setting. They can further enhance this with the use of a reflective journal which formatively compliments their application of learning to the clinical environment.

Your programme offer a variety of teaching and learning approaches that are designed to engage and inspire you. These include lectures, seminars, group work activities, simulation and tutorials, both on-campus and online.

As you progress through the programme, you will develop and utilise progressively higher-order and mastery-level skills, as well as further developing subject specific knowledge. This will support you to become an inquiring and confident learner, fostering independence in the acquisition, and application of, theoretical knowledge.

You will be:

• empowered to acquire knowledge through supported, independent learning. This will include being directed to scholarly activities that will prepare you for scheduled teaching activity. 
• supported in engaging in online asynchronous activity. Examples include tutorial discussions, tutor-facilitated discussion boards and collaborative or individual projects, such as wikis, padlets, blogs and e-portfolios. Dedicated and experienced academic staff will actively, iteratively and directly engage with you to facilitate and guide your learning.

Qualification requirements

• Undergraduate degree

  BA/BSc (Hons) in relevant field at 2:2 or above, or evidence of potential to study at Masters Level

To apply for this programme, you are required to complete an LJMU CPD application form. You will need to provide details of your qualifications and curent employment.

We are looking for practitioners within healthcare who embody the core NHS values and constitution, have the drive to enhance practice and innovate to effect positive change for patients are carers, in the role and speciality within which they work. In this programme it would be advantageous that you are from an area within cardiology or cardiac care or with a particular interest in this specialist area of practice. 

The single assessment for this course is the critical exploration of a case study and will be submitted in the form of a 3500 word written essay which will be a 100% weighting at Level 7 (masters level).