This part-time course will support you in developing advanced practice competencies, across the four pillars of Advanced Practice and in line with nationally recognised advanced level nursing criteria. You'll gain knowledge and skills that will help you develop in an advanced nurse practitioner role, professionally and academically at Master's level.
It will extend your analytical and reflective skills, and allow you to integrate new and existing clinical skills within your practice setting to provide high-quality healthcare as an autonomous practitioner in a multi-disciplinary healthcare team.
Once you've completed this course, you’ll be able to further progress the service and practice development and clinical leadership aspects of your role by undertaking the MA Advanced Practice course. The Master's element will provide you with the opportunity to complete a service improvement project, which can support the development of new patient and client services and the enhance practice within your own organisation.
In order to take advantage of new approaches to learning and teaching, as well as developments in industry to benefit our students we regularly review all of our courses. This course is currently going through this process and we will update this page in December 2016 to give you full information about what we will be offering once the review process has concluded. The September 2016 and January 2017 intakes will undertake the existing course structure.
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Bournemouth
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Fern Barrow, Talbot Campus, BH12 5BB
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On this course you will usually be taught by a range of staff with relevant expertise and knowledge appropriate to the content of the unit. This will include senior academic staff, lecturer practitioners who work at the university and in practice as Advanced Nurse Practitioners, other 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 as an autonomous practitioner within a multi-disciplinary healthcare team.
This part-time course has six taught units. You'll need to attend university once a week during term time over the two years.
Core units
Professional Issues for Advanced Practice: You’ll explore contextual aspects surrounding advanced practice, as well as the development of your advanced professional role while analysing and debating recent developments relevant to your clinical practice. This first unit helps set the scene for your developing advanced practice role and is also the starting point for your advanced practice portfolio.
Advanced History Taking & Physical Assessment: You will develop knowledge and skills that will enable you to obtain
a comprehensive patient history, perform a complete physical assessment of all body systems and distinguish normal findings from pathological ones. You’ll learn to accurately describe observations and findings using appropriate terminology.
Advanced Health Assessment & Decision-making: Here, you’ll develop skills of clinical reasoning and decision-making at an advanced level and the ability to formulate differential diagnoses, This unit follows on from the advanced history taking and physical assessment unit, supporting you in the development of knowledge and skills for planning and managing patients within complete packages of care, working in partnership with patients, carers and multidisciplinary team.
Independent & Supplementary Prescribing: This unit meets the government agenda for non-medical prescribing and through successful completion of this course and achievement of competencies in your practice area, you will gain a Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) recordable prescribing qualification. The curriculum has been devised following Department of Health guidelines and by collaborating with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). Learning and teaching will take place at the university and in practice. Lectures will be followed with question and answer sessions and analysis of case examples.
Principles of Disease Processes & Management of Therapeutic Interventions: Here, you’ll develop your understanding of disease processes, and improve your diagnostic and clinical decision-making skills for determining, implementing and evaluating evidence-based therapeutic pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions. (This unit is undertaken by students as an alternative pathway to the non-medical prescribing route).
Advanced Practice Portfolio: This unit encourages self-direction and personal responsibility for professional development as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner, using nationally-recognised advanced practice criteria against which you will benchmark your advanced practice.Throughout the course, you will collect evidence of your advanced role development that will demonstrate achievement of generic advanced practice competencies, as well as more speciality-based one within your own practice area. An additional aspect of this unit focuses on leadership and business acumen, within the context of your advanced practice role. The unit will culminate in you producing a personal, professional portfolio that spans the whole two year course, drawing together all elements of your developing advanced practice role, alongside academic development at Masters level.
Once you’ve completed this course, you’ll be able to undertake the top-up MA Advanced Practice programme, which will further enhance your leadership and management and service development skills. This Master's programme will provide you with the opportunity to undertake a service improvement project, aimed at developing patient-centred care and improving service delivery within your own organisation.
Programme specification
Programme specifications provide definitive records of the University's taught degrees in line with Quality Assurance Agency requirements. Every taught course leading to a BU Award has a programme specification which describes its aims, structure, content and learning outcomes, plus the teaching, learning and assessment methods used.
Download the programme specification for PGDip Advanced Nurse Practitioner.
Whilst every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the programme specification, the information is liable to change to take advantage of exciting new approaches to teaching and learning as well as developments in industry. If you have been unable to locate the programme specification for the course you are interested in, it will be available as soon as the latest version is ready. Alternatively please contact us for assistance.
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