MSc/Postgraduate Diploma/Postgraduate Certificate Advanced Practice

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Indicative routes

The optional modules listed are those that are most likely to be available, but they may be subject to change.

Year one

You'll study:

• A Leadership module (20 or 30 credits depending on credit requirement)

Plus:

• Pathophysiology and Diagnostic Reasoning in Clinical Practice (20 credits)

Plus, one of the following:

• Examination of the Newborn (20 credits)
• Physical Assessment and Clinical Reasoning (20 credits)
• Physical Assessment and Clinical Reasoning of the Presenting Child (20 credits)

Or

• Advancing Practice in Clinical Examination and Diagnostic Reasoning for Urgent, Emergency and Primary Care Practitioners (40 credits)

Year two*

Once you've completed the Leadership and Clinical pillars, you'll move on to study one of the following:

• Health and Social Care Research for Advanced Clinical Practitioner (Distance Learning) (20 credits)
• Health and Social Care Research: Methods and Methodologies (Distance-Learning) (20 credits)
• Health and Social Care Research: Methods and Methodology (20 credits)

Plus:

• Independent and/or Supplementary Prescribing (40 credits) or 40 credits from the department's Continuing Professional Development Module Portfolio.

You may also elect to study:

• Supporting Students in Practice (non-credit bearing)

Year three*

In the final part of the course, you'll complete either a Dissertation (40 or 60 credits depending on credit requirement) or an Evidencing Work-based Learning module (40 or 60 credits depending credit requirement).

Plus:

• Up to 20 credits (the amount depending on credit requirement) from the Department's Continuing Professional Development Module Portfolio.

*Years two and three will be underpinned by a portfolio aligned to the four pillars of advanced practice. This will be supported by a clinical supervisor in your workplace.

The University continually enhances our offer by responding to feedback from our students and other stakeholders, ensuring the curriculum is kept up to date and our graduates are equipped with the knowledge and skills they need for the real world. This may result in changes to the course. If changes to your course are approved we will inform you.

Learning and Teaching

The course offers a wide range of teaching and learning strategies which are student centred, including action learning sets. The process of action learning allows you to engage fully in exploring challenges and issues relevant to practice in order to challenge existing perspectives and place theoretical knowledge in your own practice context. Other learning strategies include critical evaluation, directed reading, discussion groups, seminars, group work and your own practice.

For more details see our glossary of teaching and learning terms.

Study time

This course will enable you to work in a collaborative way to meet strategic health and social care targets. These targets will be met through:

• advancing the boundaries of health and social care through interprofessional leadership and workforce development
• applying the principles of advanced practice to their working context
• demonstrating innovation, enhanced decision-making, problem-solving and change management within advanced practice
• operating within a multi-cultural context that is responsive to health and social care
• engaging and encouraging research, evaluation and systematic reviews of practice
• promotion of life-long learning activities in yours and others development plans.

Assessment

A wide range of assessment methods are incorporated into this course, each one appropriate to the nature of the specific module. A module assessment normally comprises the application of theory to the your own practice.

For more details, see our full glossary of assessment terms.