Advanced Practice - MSc/Postgraduate Diploma/Postgraduate Certificate

Modules studied are as follows:

Postgraduate Certificate - 60 credits

• Contemporary Issues in Advancing practice - 15 credits
• Option modules

Postgraduate Diploma - 120 credits

• Contemporary Issues in Advancing Practice - 15 credits
• Health and Social Care Research: Methods and Methodology - 15 credits
• Option modules - 45 credits

MSc Advanced Practice - 180 credits

• Contemporary Issues in Advancing Practice - 15 credits
• Health and Social Care Research: Methods and Methodology - 15 credits
• Dissertation - 45 credits
• Option modules - as required

Dissertation

Students will submit a research portfolio of 10,000 words containing:

• A journal article prepared for submission to a journal of their choice
• An explanation and justification of the academic journal the paper is (hypothetically) written for
• A reflection on the research. This will provide students space to justify their decisions in carrying out the research and in evaluation that might not fit well in the journal article.

A range of specialist option modules have been developed specifically for this course that will help you to meet the learning outcomes of the course. This offers you the flexibility to prepare for a range of role changes and equips you with sophisticated negotiation and decision-making skills to manage the service as practice evolves.

See the full list of the available modules

The University continually enhances our offer by responding to feedback from our students and other stakeholders, ensuring the curriculum is kept up to date and our graduates are equipped with the knowledge and skills they need for the real world. This may result in changes to the course. If changes to your course are approved we will inform you.

The course offers a wide range of teaching and learning strategies which are student centred, including action learning sets. The process of action learning allows you to engage fully in exploring challenges and issues relevant to practice in order to challenge existing perspectives and place theoretical knowledge in your own practice context. Other learning strategies include critical evaluation, directed reading, discussion groups, seminars, group work and your own practice.

For more details see our glossary of teaching and learning terms.

This course will enable you to work in a collaborative way to meet strategic health and social care targets. These targets will be met through:

• advancing the boundaries of health and social care through interprofessional leadership and workforce development
• applying the principles of advanced practice to their working context
• demonstrating innovation, enhanced decision-making, problem-solving and change management within advanced practice
• operating within a multi-cultural context that is responsive to health and social care
• engaging and encouraging research, evaluation and systematic reviews of practice
• promotion of life-long learning activities in yours and others development plans.

A wide range of assessment methods are incorporated into this course, each one appropriate to the nature of the specific module. A module assessment normally comprises the application of theory to the your own practice.

For more detail see our full glossary of assessment terms.