This Master's course embraces the International and National advanced clinical practice picture supporting the development of your knowledge and skills at an advanced level, to prepare you for your Advanced Clinical Practice or Advanced Nurse Practitioner role. You'll extend your analytical and reflective skills, as well as integrating new and existing clinical skills within your practice setting to provide high-quality healthcare within the multi-disciplinary healthcare team.
There are two pathways available, if you are a nurse then the MSc Advanced Clinical Practice (Advanced Nurse Practitioner) qualification will be most suitable; for midwives, allied health professionals and other non-medical healthcare professionals, the MSc Advanced Clinical Practice route is appropriate. The final year of the course concentrates on a service improvement project enabling you to combine the clinical elements of your advanced clinical role with leadership/management and service development and improvement.
Whilst all the intakes are open for all NMC registrants and registered allied health professionals and other non-medical healthcare professionals, the February 2018 intake has the additional focus on mental health for mental health nurses advancing their mental health practice, as opposed to physical health. This intake is also more appropriate for midwives advancing their midwifery practice.
Course details
On this course you will usually be taught by a range of staff with relevant expertise and knowledge appropriate to the content of the units. This will include senior academic staff, lecturer practitioners who work at the university and who work in clinical practice and other qualified healthcare professionals.
The course will facilitate the development of your critical appraisal, analytical and reflective skills, and enable you to integrate new advanced clinical skills and knowledge with your existing experience within your practice setting, in order to support the provision of high quality care and service delivery in an Advanced Clinical Practice or Advanced Nurse Practitioner role within a multi-disciplinary healthcare team.
You can download a flyer with a flow chart of the various pathways for different professionals.
PGDip Advanced Clinical Practice (Advanced Nurse Practitioner) - for NMC- registered nurses
Unit 1- Advanced Nursing Practice: Contextual Issues and Professional Development: You'll explore the contextual issues surrounding the development of your advanced nurse practitioner role and discuss, analyse and debate key areas relevant to your advancing nursing practice, within a multi-professional setting.
Unit 2- History Taking and Physical Examination for Advancing Practice: In this unit you will develop knowledge and skills to enable you to proficiently elicit comprehensive patient histories through a structured consultation process. You will learn to critically apply knowledge and skills to patient assessment and develop competence in the physical examination of body systems, distinguishing normal from abnormal findings.
Unit 3- Assessment, Clinical Reasoning and Decision-making for Advancing Clinical Practice: This unit enables you to develop knowledge and skills for identifying problems, formulating differential diagnoses and developing action plans for patients in their own clinical practice settings. It develops critical thinking, clinical and diagnostic reasoning and decision-making skills, aimed at meeting patients’ needs and managing complex presentations and conditions. The unit builds on History Taking and Physical Examination for Advancing Practice unit, whereby you will draw on and apply systems-based knowledge and skills to your own clinical practice.
OR Unit 3- Assessment, Critical Reasoning and Decision-making for Advancing Clinical Practice (mental health): This unit focuses on advancing mental health practice as opposed to the systems-based, physical health, within the core unit. This unit is available as an alternative to unit 3, for mental health nurses wishing to advance their mental health as opposed to the physical health option.
Option 1
Unit 4 - Independent and Supplementary Prescribing for Nurses and Midwives: Nurses and Midwives undertake this unit to prepare you to prescribe safely, appropriately, competently and cost effectively as an independent and supplementary prescriber, in line with obtaining the requisite NMC-recordable qualification.
OR option 2
Unit 4a- Pathophysiology and Therapeutic Interventions for Advancing Practice: This unit is available as an alternative to the independent and supplementary prescribing unit. It enables you to enhance and develop knowledge and understanding of pathophysiology and pharmacology. It supports development of clinical and diagnostic skills, in relation to determining, implementing and evaluating evidence-based pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapeutic interventions, for patients in your own clinical practice setting within the context of your advancing clinical practice role.
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Unit 5a- Evidencing Professional Learning: Having attended a structured learning event appropriate to your own advancing clinical role and applies learning outcomes from the event into practice. This unit facilitates the critical evaluation of advanced scholarship and development of reflective skills in relation to your learning and professional development. You'll demonstrate application of the learning outcomes in complex and unpredictable professional contexts and reflection and evaluation of change in practice, related to the specific learning event.
Unit 6 - Advanced Nurse Practitioner Portfolio: This final unit of the Post Graduate Diploma element of the programme runs alongside all other units of learning, and integrates learning from throughout the programme and relevant aspects related to the development of advanced practice knowledge and skills from within the student’s own area of practice. This unit represents a culmination of student’s learning and professional practice development, through critical exploration, reflection and demonstration of knowledge, understanding and skills for the Advanced Nurse Practitioner role. Students begin to enhance and develop clinical leadership, management and service development expertise, including business and entrepreneurial awareness. Self-direction and personal responsibility for continuing professional development is facilitated and is aimed at attainment of the required advanced level of competence expected of an Advanced Nurse practitioner role, as well as being tailored towards the student’s own area of practice. It culminates in production of a personal portfolio of evidence of academic and professional development relevant to advanced level practice.
PGDip Advanced Clinical Practice - for Midwifery and registered allied health professionals and other non medical practitioners
Unit 1- Advanced Practice: Contextual Issues and Professional Development: You'll explore the contextual issues surrounding the development of your advanced practice role and discuss, analyse and debate developments relevant to practice, within a multi-professional setting.
Unit 2- History Taking and Physical Examination for Advancing Practice: In this unit you will develop knowledge and skills to enable you to proficiently elicit comprehensive patient histories through a structured consultation process. You will learn to critically apply knowledge and skills to patient assessment and develop competence in the physical examination of body systems, distinguishing normal from abnormal findings.
Unit 3- Assessment, Clinical Reasoning and Decision-making for Advancing Clinical Practice: This unit enables you to develop knowledge and skills for identifying problems, formulating differential diagnoses and developing action plans for patients in their own clinical practice setting. It develops critical thinking, clinical and diagnostic reasoning and decision-making skills, aimed at meeting patients’ needs and managing complex presentations and conditions. The unit builds on History Taking and Physical Examination for Advancing Practice unit, whereby you will draw on and apply systems-based knowledge and skills to their own clinical practice.
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Unit 3- Assessment, Clinical Reasoning and Decision-making for Advancing Clinical Practice (Midwifery): This unit focuses on advancing midwifery practice as opposed to the systems-based, generic physical health option, within the core unit. This unit is available as an alternative to unit 3, for Midwives.
Option 1
Unit 4 - Supplementary and Independent Prescribing for Physiotherapists and Chiropodists/Podiatrists: Allied Health Professionals follow a very similar curriculum alongside the nurse and midwife non-medical prescriber students, with completion of the unit leading to the HCPC-recordable qualification.
OR option 2
Unit 4a- Pathophysiology and Therapeutic Interventions for Advancing Practice:is for healthcare professionals who do not wish to have a recordable prescribing qualification, but enables you to enhance and develop knowledge and understanding of pathophysiology and pharmacology. It supports development of clinical and diagnostic skills, in relation to determining, implementing and evaluating evidence-based pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapeutic interventions, for patients in your own clinical practice settings within the context of your advancing clinical practice role.
AND
Unit 5a- Evidencing Professional Learning: Having attended a structured learning event appropriate to your own advancing clinical role and applies learning outcomes from the event into practice. This unit facilitates the critical evaluation of advanced scholarship and development of reflective skills in relation to your learning and professional development. You'll demonstrate application of the learning outcomes in complex and unpredictable professional contexts and reflection and evaluation of change in practice, related to the specific learning event.
Unit 6 - Advanced Practice Portfolio: This final unit of the Post Graduate Diploma element of the programme runs alongside all other units of learning, and integrates learning from throughout the programme and relevant aspects related to the development of advanced practice knowledge and skills from within the student’s own area of practice. This unit represents a culmination of student’s learning and professional practice development, through critical exploration, reflection and demonstration of knowledge, understanding and skills for the Advanced clinical practice role. Students begin to enhance and develop clinical leadership, management and service development expertise, including business and entrepreneurial awareness. Self-direction and personal responsibility for continuing professional development is facilitated and is aimed at attainment of the required advanced level of competence expected of an Advanced Clinical Practice role, as well as being tailored towards the student’s own area of practice. It culminates in production of a personal portfolio of evidence of academic and professional development relevant to advanced level practice.
MSc Advanced Clinical Practice and MSc Advanced Clinical Practice (Advanced Nurse Practitioner)
You can either opt to exit the course at this point with a PGDip Advanced Clinical Practice or PGDiP Advanced Clinical Practice (Advanced nurse Practitioner) or to continue onto the Master's stage. This final stage of the course comprises of the following two units:
Preparing for Service Improvement Project (PSIP): This unit provides an opportunity for students to develop a service improvement project (SIP) proposal for their own organisation. PSIP enables the student to gain knowledge regarding an appropriate, systematic and justified methodology in a complex professional area; to acquire problem identification, critical literature review, evaluation, change management, research, practice and/or service development skills; to devise an original, intellectually challenging and in-depth SIP action plan relevant to their professional context.
Service Improvement Project (SIP): This unit aims to bring about a measurable benefit to a service or services against a stated aim within your own organisation. The project embraces both traditional and non-traditional forms of intellectual inquiry and relevant and effective practical management. It demonstrates your autonomous and independent ability, within a complex professional context, to create knowledge which expands or redefines existing knowledge and/or develops new approaches to service improvement. Thus the SIP provides an opportunity to implement the PSIP action plan/strategy and undertake an in-depth SIP and evaluate any subsequent change or improvement, critically reflect on and evaluating the impact of the SIP activity.
Programme specification
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Download the programme specification for MSc Advanced Clinical Practice.
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