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Study Details: PGDip 2 years part-time
This course will enable you to develop competency in advanced clinical practice while working in your existing healthcare setting.
Through the integration of research and theory with practice, you’ll build your knowledge and skills so you can safely assess, diagnose and treat or refer patients presenting with undifferentiated problems. This will include the prescription or administration of medication according to the rules governing your particular profession.
You’ll gain professional skills including risk management, resilience and leadership in order to progress your journey towards advanced practice.
On graduation, you’ll be a critically reflective practitioner, able to make informed judgements based on sound analysis, often within unpredictable circumstances. You will be ready to take your place in a range of healthcare settings.
This course has been designed to enable you to achieve the capabilities in the NHS (2017) Advanced Clinical Practice Multi-professional framework.
This postgraduate diploma level course is similar in content to the MSc Advanced Clinical Practice. However, on the PGDip course you will not undertake Year 3, which includes the service improvement project (dissertation).
If you would like to apply for the Advanced Clinical Practitioner apprenticeship programme, please contact your employer in the first instance, as there is a separate application that will need to be completed.
AccreditationSuccessful completion of the Independent and Supplementary Prescribing module will enable you to legally prescribe medicines and appliances.
You should hold an undergraduate degree (exception may be given if you have evidence of recent successfully completed modules at level six).
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This postgraduate diploma level course is similar in content to the MSc Advanced Clinical Practice. However, on the PGDip course you will not undertake Year 3, which includes the service improvement project (dissertation).
The demand for qualified Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACPs) is growing, and on completion of this course you will be able to apply for and work as an ACP.
For module information for this course please visit – https://www.york.ac.uk/study/postgraduate-taught/courses/pgdip-advanced-clinical-practice/#course-content
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