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Introducing practical healthcare is an introductory course for healthcare support staff – for example healthcare assistants, porters, and the wider healthcare team – who might be looking to enhance their knowledge and skills in order to improve their career progression. This course will develop your knowledge and skills for a deeper understanding of healthcare practice. You will be introduced to some key ideas around quality care and you will have the opportunity to reflect on how these ideas might be applied in practice.
This course is free and you are welcome to study it without enrolling. However, the course gives you the opportunity to earn digital badges as a recognition of your learning. To collect these badges, you’ll need to enrol. If you already have an Open University account, you need to sign in before you enrol. Otherwise, it’s easy to create one. Once you’ve signed in, return to this page and click on the ‘Enrol’ button above.
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This
course was developed with funding from the Higher Education Funding Council for
England (HEFCE). Although most of the content will be relevant to learners
throughout the United Kingdom, some elements will be based on the English
policy and legislative context.
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By studying the course you will have the opportunity to gain digital badges – you need to click on the ‘Enrol’ button to be able to do the quizzes and earn the badge.
This course is part of a collection
This course is part of a collection of courses called Social Partnerships Network courses. There are 6 courses in this collection so you may find other courses here that maybe of interest to you.
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Course reviews
Milad Milad11 October 2021 1:23
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Great insight to my new career path
Sharon Rushworth30 April 2019 5:07
As someone who is looking to change career path into Social Care, I found this course to be insightful, straightforward to understand and encouraging; enjoyable and achievable.
The content format is short sections and sub-sections with the right balance of written knowledge, video, audio clips, and interactive activities and quizzes that kept me engaged throughout.
Caroline Stokes Skelton25 June 2017 10:02
excellent, I have touched on a lot of this with my course set by Health Education England, Skills for Care and Skills for Health. It was good to refresh on this.
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You can start learning at any time. By signing up and enrolling you can track your progress and earn a Statement of Participation upon completion, all for free.
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This course is made available under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0: Social Partnerships Network
Any third-party materials featured in this course are used with permission and are not ours to give away. These materials are not subject to the Creative Commons licence. See the
terms and conditions and our FAQs. Please see the course acknowledgements for further information about copyright details.
For further information, take a look at our frequently asked questions which may give you the support you need.
