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Study Details: MSc 3 years
Are you a registered nurse or healthcare professional with an aspiration to develop your career in Advanced Clinical Practice?
The MSc Advanced Clinical Practice (named speciality) provides a contemporary pathway to your career development. As a practitioner in the public domain of health and social care services, you are expected to be innovative, provide leadership and make an advanced contribution in your professional clinical role.
The philosophy of this course is to use a professional work approach integrated with an understanding of practical application to create a high employability focus and impact on your practice. At all stages, you will be encouraged to take an independent self-learning approach to developing a deep knowledge of your subject area.
There are five ‘core’ named specialities available which align to the Transforming Roles, Clinical Core Competencies (Phase 2 Paper):
Acute Care
Paediatric
Neonatal
Primary & Community Care
Mental Health
In order to achieve all clinical competencies and speciality skills for this qualification, you will need to have a clinical supervisor and be employed by a UK healthcare organisation.
If you are not employed in the health sector in the UK, please visit our MSc Advanced Practice (distance learning) course page.
To enrol on this programme you must:
Be a qualified health and/or social care practitioner (for Advanced Practice (Midwifery) you must have an appropriate midwifery/obstetric nurse qualification with supporting evidence) AND
Possess a bachelor degree OR
Be in possession of other qualifications or experience which demonstrates that you have appropriate knowledge and skills at SCQF level 10 e.g. Clinical Decision Making Module OR
Have successfully completed two taught modules equivalent to 40 credits at SCQF level 11 as a student of the University through our Affiliate student scheme.
Also you must satisfy the above requirements AND:
Have employer approval to study for a clinical qualification in Advanced Practice, recognising that this programme requires the development of clinical assessment skills, case management and prescribing (where appropriate).
Have an experienced supervisor who has agreed to oversee the development of practice based competence and learning. This supervisor must have extensive knowledge and skills aligned to the field of speciality the practitioner will be working in. This person(s) must be an Advanced Practitioner and/or Medical Practitioner ST3 or above and/or Consultant and/or GP. The practice supervisor must be able to commit to two sessions per month of supervision.
We may also consider lesser qualifications if you have sufficient relevant work experience within the industry.
The University does not sponsor students to study on part-time programmes in the UK under the Student Visa route. International Applicants must therefore have other valid immigration leave to study on this programme.
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Graduates from this course can find opportunities in:
Nursing / Midwifery
Critical Care
Primary Care
Children and Young People’s Health
Neonatal Health
Learning disabilities
Mental Health
For module information for this course please visit https://www.napier.ac.uk/courses/msc-advanced-clinical-practice-named-speciality—postgraduate-parttime
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