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MSc Advanced Clinical Practice

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    MSc Part Time: 3 years.

Course Description

Advanced clinical practice is a rapidly expanding role across all areas in healthcare. This multi-professional course is developed around a national framework and the four capabilities of advanced clinical practice – clinical, research, education and leadership.

This course is also available as a degree apprenticeship. This course enables you to develop your personal and professional autonomy, providing you with a comprehensive and critical understanding of professional practice, ensuring that you are fit for future challenges within health and social care.

The course is flexible for multi-professional individuals from all areas of advanced practice within acute and primary care sectors – you access the same core modules. The negotiated competencies within the first-year portfolio module allow you the flexibility to ensure maximum relevance and application to your clinical area. You have the opportunity to develop advanced and core transferable skills relevant to your area of practice – you develop your advanced clinical decision-making skills, using evidence-based approaches to care, lead innovation and practice, and develop high levels of autonomy. The course is developed in partnership with key stakeholders from practice and delivered by an experienced team with knowledge and academic credibility both within and outside of the University. This multi-professional team has a wealth of experience in developing and delivering modules of this nature for healthcare professions at all academic levels. You study this course on a part-time basis over three years. You are supported through your studies by an academic supervisor and you also need to identify a practice supervisor.

Entry Requirements

To apply, you must:

  • have current registration with relevant professional healthcare body such as the Nursing and Midwifery Council or Health and Care Professions Council
  • have an honour’s degree in a health-related subject – or, if you don’t hold a relevant degree, previous experience and evidence of study at Level 6 may be considered (you are invited to discuss your individual needs with the course leader to determine your suitability for study at master’s level)work in a healthcare organisation, normally at equivalent of band 6 (or above) within an area of advanced practice. If you are below a band 6 you may be considered following discussion with the course leader if you have significant experience in an autonomous rolework in a role which requires diagnostic and therapeutic responsibility for a patient caseload for a minimum of 20 hours a week
  • have a minimum of three years’, full-time or equivalent in part-time hours, post-registration clinical experience – if you have less than three years’ experience you may be considered following discussion with the course leader providing you have your manager’s support
  • be able to organise for a suitable practitioner (for example, a medical doctor or an active advanced practitioner) to act as a practice supervisor.

For general information please see our overview of entry requirements

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Student Destinations

Graduates use their qualifications to progress on their chosen nursing and clinical career.

Module Details

Year 1 core modules
Competencies for Advanced Practitioner

and one optional module
Advanced Physical Assessment and Disease Management Skills

Holistic Assessment and Clinical Management for Advanced Practice

Year 2 core modules
Developing Research Projects

and one optional module
Advancing non-medical prescribing

Negotiated Learning in advanced Clinical Practice

Final-year core modules (non-apprenticeship)
Advanced Practitioner Independent Dissertation Portfolio

Final-year core modules (apprenticeship students)
End-point Assessment for Higher Apprenticeship Advanced Practitioners

Independent Project for Apprenticeship Advanced Practitioners

Modules offered may vary.

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