Advanced Clinical Practice
Bachelor's degree
In Telford
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
Telford
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Duration
3 Years
The MSc Advanced Clinical Practice has been designed to meet the needs of the health professional whose desire is to develop their clinical career to a higher level as an advanced practitioner. The course philosophy is to acknowledge your prior experience and knowledge as a health professional and subsequently enable you to fulfil your potential as a postgraduate through the development of new understanding, critical insight and advanced level academic and clinical skills. This course is open to practitioners registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), or Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), or General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
This programme will develop the health professional’s knowledge and skills to work at an advanced level of clinical practice. The programme has been designed around the current Health Education England West Midlands (HEEWM) competency framework (2015). The Advanced Clinical Practice Framework for the West Midlands is multidisciplinary and applies to all non-medical healthcare professionals including nurses, midwives, pharmacists and allied health professionals.
It is expected that on completion of this course you will be a recognised Advanced Clinical Practitioner (HEWM, 2015) with an expert knowledge base, complex decision-making skills and clinical competencies for expanded autonomous scope of practice, the characteristics of which are shaped by the context in which the individual practices.
You will normally have an honours degree and have been working in clinical practice for a minimum of 3 years and have evidence of studying at level 6 prior to commencing the course.
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The course has been developed in response to identified and anticipated demands for increasing the number of health professionals with advanced clinical skills and critical understanding. For the award of Postgraduate Diploma you will study six 20 credit modules
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New entrants to Advanced Clinical Practice:
This course is open to practitioners registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) OR Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
To become an Advanced Clinical Practitioner, the following points should normally be met and the applicant must be in a role that has employer support for clinical placement and time to attend the course with a clinical supervisor/mentor in practice.
Hold current first level Professional Registration with a relevant regulatory body. inee Advanced Clinical Practitioner during the MSc and this is equivalent...
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- Medical training
- Medical
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Typical modules include:
- Health Assessment for Advanced Clinical Practice
- Clinical reasoning for Advanced Clinical Practice
- Leadership and Governance for Advanced Clinical Practice
- Advanced pharmacology for non-medical prescribers
- Advanced perspectives for non-medical prescribing practice
- Advanced Inquiry for Nurses, Midwives and Allied Health Professionals
- Evidence Based Practice Project
Advanced Clinical Practice