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Why choose the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Education
98% of our Nursing graduates are in graduate-level employment (Guardian, 2024)
100% of Health graduates went into highly skilled employment or further education (HESA, 2023)
£5,000 a year available with the NHS bursary.
About the course
This short course provides you with the opportunity to develop and enhance your knowledge and skills in managing individuals with Spinal Cord Injury, providing evidence based practices to ensure successful and safe rehabilitation pathway for SCI individuals and management approaches at the acute and early phases. This course is designed in collaboration with experts in the National Spinal Injury Center at Stoke Mandeville Hospital.
This course aims to provide you with the opportunity to:
- Advance your knowledge and skills to provide safe, competent, effective, evidence-based care for patients in the acute and early phases of Spinal Cord Injury.
- Develop a systematic and advanced understanding of early management of SCI individuals to ensure holistic rehabilitation programmes.
Aylesbury campus, 10:00 to 4:00 - Room TBC
- 26 Sept 2025
- 10 Oct 2025
- 31 Oct 2025
- 14 Nov 2025
- 28 Nov 2025
- 23 Jan 2026
- 6 Feb 2026
- 20 Feb 2026
- 6 March 2026
- 20 March 2026
How will you be assessed?
The assessment strategy for the course combines formative and summative elements i.e. assessment for learning and assessment of learning. It is designed to foster strong links between learning on the course and the lived realities of practitioners working in a range of clinical contexts.
The choice of assessments is determined on the basis of their fitness for purpose i.e. to evidence achievement of unit/course learning outcomes at masters level (Level 7). The assessment allow learners the flexibility to select relevant cases as the basis for their writing with an opportunity to submit draft plans to receive formative feedback.
