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Introducing practical healthcare

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Introducing practical healthcare

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  • 15 hours study
  • Level 0: Beginner
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    • General

      • This photo shows a senior patient using a walking frame on a hospital ward, supported by her health care team.

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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.

        To see the other courses in this series please visit the Social Partnerships Network (SPN) courses home page.

        We ask you optional questions when you enrol on this course for research purposes. See About the research for more details.

        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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    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 learning outcomes

    1. Explain what the day-to-day role of a healthcare assistant entails and what duties you might be asked to perform
    2. Recognise some of the basic concepts that will enable a person-centred approach to care
    3. Identify approaches to healthcare practice which enable patient safety
    4. Explain some of the legal responsibilities within the healthcare assistant role.

  • Course dates:

    First Published 15/03/2016.

    Updated 13/10/2017

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  • Milad Milad

    Milad Milad11 October 2021 1:23

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  • Sharon Rushworth

    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 Skelton

    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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