Cardiac Care: Symptoms and Management of Heart Failure Level 7 (7KNIM879)

Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care

Course Overview

This module will enable students to become an expert in managing symptoms and providing care for patients with heart failure. This will inform their understanding of the advanced management of heart failure and their ability to make rational, evidence-based and patient focused decisions.

28 April 2026 - 16 June 2026

Places: Course closed

Delivery mode: Online

Application deadline: 15 March 2026

Places: Course closed

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Course features

This course is available at both Level 6 and Level 7. Please ensure you apply for the appropriate Level (you need to provide evidence of a BSc Hons degree to study at Level 7)

Learning outcomes

This module will prepare practitioners to identify symptoms and develop expert knowledge of the management of patients with heart failure in the hospital and community setting. Practitioners will:

  1. Demonstrate an advanced understanding of the physiology of heart failure
  2. Demonstrate an expert ability to analyse and interpret complex secondary assessment data and to discriminate between normal and abnormal findings in heart failure.
  3. Critically apply diagnostic reasoning to differential diagnosis and clinical decision making
  4. Demonstrate an advanced understanding of pathophysiology and its relationship to symptom development as well as pharmacology and therapeutics as they relate to patients with heart failure
  5. To have an expert understanding of the principles of clinical management as they apply to patients at different stages of heart failure
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Entry Requirements

Qualified healthcare professionals

Assessment

Written assignment

Further information

Teaching schedule

Term 3 - 28/04/2026, 12/05, 02/06, 16/06

Course code:

7KNIM879

Credit level:

7

Credit value:

15

Duration:

2 months

Full Price:

£1,820.00

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