Decision Making for Health Settings
The aim of this short course is to enable healthcare professionals to advance their knowledge and understanding of decision making.
Course overview
The aim of this short course is to enable healthcare professionals to advance their knowledge and understanding of decision making. This course provides opportunities to critically analyse and appraise clinical decision-making theories and frameworks. Through critical reflection within the module, students will be able to develop their skills in decision-making and evaluate their own decision-making processes when dealing with rapidly changing situations, uncertainty and risk.
What you need to know
Course start date
September and May
Location
Blended Learning
Course length
20 hours of contact time over 5 days
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Typical offer
Health Professionals
Fees
£900
Course features
- Gain 15 academic credits that can contribute towards a Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma or MSc in Professional Practice.
- Develop essential ethical reasoning skills to address complex scenarios and ensure sound, proportionate decision making
- Elevate your decision-making practice by critically applying theoretical concepts to improve quality care
- This course is a mandatory module for those taking our PGCert/Dip/MSc in Community Rehabilitation
Course details
Lectures will cover the following topics: Decision-making theory; Pattern recognition; Information processing; Intrinsic and extrinsic factors affecting decision making; Risk assessment and management; managing uncertainty; legal, professional and ethical issues in decision making; Bayesian inference - statistical probability and testing; Human and system factors in decision making; shared decision making; Clinical supervision.
To gain the credits students will be required to submit a 3,000 word critical reflection, in which theory is applied to a decision-making episode from personal practice.
Entry requirements
Suitable for all practicing health and social care professionals.
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No International Entry Requirements for this course.
This course is available for health and social care professionals.