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Postgraduate Credit Advanced Clinical Skills in Tongue Tie (Ankyloglossia) Management

Postgraduate Credit Advanced Clinical Skills in Tongue Tie (Ankyloglossia) Management

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Study mode

Part time

Duration

1 year

Start date

03-OCT-24

Key information
DATA SOURCE : IDP Connect

Qualification type

Postgraduate Credits

Subject areas

Health Care Assistant Skills Credit Management Management Skills (Specific)

Course type

Taught

Course Summary

Why choose this course?

This highly specialised course will enable you to demonstrate to employers and potential employers your knowledge and skills relevant to working in lactation, breastfeeding support and frenulotomy services. It will provide the theoretical and evidence-based theory which underpins contemporary practice and helps you to develop advanced techniques in tongue-tie (ankyloglossia) management.

This one-year programme prepares you to practise safely and effectively as a tongue-tie practitioner and is suitable for professionals from settings including midwifery, health visiting, advanced neonatal nursing practice, dentistry and paediatrics.

The programme will enable you to deliver and lead evidence-based care for families and babies, working in partnership with multi-disciplinary teams. This includes optimising normal physiological processes, providing a first-line response to, and management of complications, as well as supporting women and their babies with infant feeding needs. The programme reflects a student-centred approach to education with emphasis on active learning, research-awareness, professional reflection and critical thinking in preparation for you to assume autonomous practice.

Assessments

Our assessment strategy aims to mirror professional practices and real-world contexts, preparing you for the challenges of independent and team work, and developing skills that will help you to succeed in the workplace. You will experience creative, engaging and meaningful assessment tasks which contribute to your ongoing development as a critical thinker and as a life-long learner.

Potential Career Paths

You will be prepared for assessing and managing tongue-tie in infants and be equipped with the tools to provide advice and support to families. On successfully completing the course you will exit with both 20 academic credit at Level 7 and the confidence to start practising as a tongue-tie practitioner.

Modules

Tongue Tie is a common problem in newborn babies that can lead to feeding, speech and dental problems. This course is designed to develop the practitioner's comprehensive understanding of tongue tie and the evidence based management of babies with this condition. On completion of the course the practitioner will be able to demonstrate competence in performing frenulotomy and a systematic understanding of communicating with parents. It is intended that the delivery of this course will be as a single study day that can be accessed by any registered practitioner. A certificate of attendance will be awarded. For those practitioners who wish to become competence at frenulotomy and gain full accreditation, assessment of theory and clinical practice will have to be achieved.

Tuition fees

UK fees
Course fees for UK students

To be confirmed

International fees
Course fees for EU and international students

To be confirmed

Entry requirements

You must be a qualified midwife, nurse of health visitor on the NMC register or a medical practitioner on the GMC register with an interest in breastfeeding support, lactation services and frenulotomy. You must have had a least three years’ post-qualifying experience.

University information

The University of Wolverhampton is a fantastic place for postgraduate study, putting students firmly first, and encouraging them to “Be who you want to be.” To discover what that means for each student, the university provides the guidance, facilities and expertise needed, including: High-quality education and training World-leading research (REF2021) Excellent student support Opportunities for social mobility (Higher Education...more