Course Description
Micro-credential - Safeguarding Adults at Risk of Abuse
This is a multi-disciplinary micro-credential which aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the topic of and responses to the abuse of adults at risk. It aims to develop and enhance competencies related to the domain of at-risk populations and is open to professionals who work in any sector which provides care or services to at risk populations.
- The key concepts of adult safeguarding, including prevention.
- The impact of a rights-based approach in adult safeguarding
- Issues related to decision making capacity and adult safeguarding
- Theories of abuse and application to adult safeguarding case scenarios
- Policy, legislative and regulatory approaches in adult safeguarding
- Assessment and planning in adult safeguarding
- Multi agency collaboration in safeguarding case management-interventions
- Financial abuse
- Safeguarding and cultures of care-institutional abuse
- Learning from adult safeguarding serious case reviews
- Peer to peer abuse
Nursing & Midwifery – Courses – Trinity College Dublin (tcd.ie)
College | Trinity College Dublin |
Course Location | Dublin |
Location Postcode | Dublin 2 |
Course Category | Medicine & Healthcare |
Awarding Body | Trinity College Dublin |
Awarding Body Details | 5 ECTS |
Course Start Date | 13th September 2021 |
Course Duration | 1 Semester |
Course Fee | €750 - €1,000 |
Entry Requirements | Application Deadline: August 23rd 2021 -Undergraduate degree in any area -The applicant must be working/volunteering with an adult at risk group (older people/people with intellectual disability/people living with dementia etc) -Honours degree (however, relevant experience will also be taken into account) -Satisfy the selection panel This micro-credential will also run in January 2022 |
Course Code | DPENM-SARA-1M09 |
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