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
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:
- Demonstrate an advanced understanding of the physiology of heart failure
- Demonstrate an expert ability to analyse and interpret complex secondary assessment data and to discriminate between normal and abnormal findings in heart failure.
- Critically apply diagnostic reasoning to differential diagnosis and clinical decision making
- 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
- To have an expert understanding of the principles of clinical management as they apply to patients at different stages of heart failure

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
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