Professional Clinical Practice MSc/PG Cert/PG Dip

De Montfort University

Master

In Leicester

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Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    Leicester

  • Duration

    Flexible

This programme continues your professional education and helps you to develop high-level decision making and leadership skills in complex situations which will help you to develop clinical practice and positively impact patient care.

This course shares teaching with other students from nursing and health care modules so that students can network, share ideas and debate.

One of the specialist elements of the programme is that students can ‘step on’ and ‘step off’ the programme at a variety of exit points. Students must complete 60 credits for the PG Cert, 120 credits for the PG Dip and 180 credits for the MSc and will study relevant clinical and core modules. If required students can achieve an exit award relevant to their clinical speciality.

Where appropriate, recognition of prior learning and experience can be accredited and students may have up to six years studying part time to complete their MSc.

We offer more than 50 different modules, which gives students the opportunity to explore their clinical speciality in depth. Examples of our modules include: Care of the Critically Ill Child/Adult, Responding to Physical Deterioration in Adults, Emergency Care and Trauma, Cancer and Palliative Care, Perioperative, Surgical, Anaesthetics and Recovery Care.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Leicester (Leicestershire)
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The Gateway, LE1 9BH

Start date

On request

About this course

This programme will equip nurses and allied health professionals from a variety of clinical settings to develop their research, leadership skills and clinical expertise at Masters level and for those wishing to develop their careers to an enhanced level of practice. It allows students to either undertake individual modules for CPD study or combine these modules in order to work towards an award.

2:2 or above of a UK bachelor’s honours degree in a related subject. Students may be eligible to apply if they hold a 60 credit (level 6) BSc top-up degree

Key features

Explore your clinical speciality in depth with a large variety of modules, including Cancer and Palliative Care and Emergency Care and Trauma.
Designed in partnership with local hospital trusts, health care providers and clinical practitioners, ensuring course content remains relevant and in line with current practice.
Flexible exit routes allow you to complete your learning to the level relevant to your clinical speciality.
A post registration postgraduate academic qualification will enhance employability and support career progression by providing high-quality health care education

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Subjects

  • Infection
  • Critical Care
  • IT for adults
  • Diabetes
  • Trauma
  • Emergency Care
  • Sexual health
  • Contraception
  • Theory
  • Clinical Practice
  • Contraception sexual health

Course programme

Course modules
  • Introduction to Contraception and sexual health (15 credits)
  • Contraception sexual health, theory and clinical practice (30 credits)
  • Women’s Health 30Minor Illness Management (15 credits)
  • Consultation and physical examination Skills (30 credits)
  • Minor Injuries management (30 credits)
  • Surgical First Assistant (WDF students) (30 credits)
  • Surgical First Assistant (Nuffield students only) (30 credits)
  • Surgical First assistant (Spire students only) (30 credits)
  • Perioperative and Surgical Practice (30 credits)
  • Diabetes care and related disorders (30 credits)
  • Patient Safety and Human factors in Health Care (WDF students) (30 credits)
  • Patient Safety and Human factors in Health Care (Spire students only) (30 credits)
  • Patient Safety and Human factors in Health Care (Nuffield students only) (30 credits)
  • Principles of Care of the Acutely Ill Adult in the critical care environment (30 credits)
  • Principles of Care of the Acutely Ill Adult in the critical care environment (Spire students only) (30 credits)
  • Principles of Care of the Acutely Ill Adult in the critical care environment (Nuffield students only) (30 credits)
  • Recognising and responding to acute physical deterioration in adults (30 credits)
  • Applied care of the critically ill adult (30 credits)
  • Applied Care of the Critically Ill Adult (Spire students only) (30 credits)
  • Applied Care of the Critically Ill Adult (Nuffield students only) (30 credits)
  • Care of the critically ill child / young person (L1&2) (30 credits)
  • Advanced Care of the critically Ill child/young person (L2&3) (30 credits)
  • Fundamentals of Anaesthesia (30 credits)
  • Enhanced Anaesthetic Care (30 credits)
  • Gastroenterology and Hepatology (30 credits)
  • Stoma Care (SALT) (30 credits)
  • Managing Pain (15 credits)
  • Applied Trauma and Resuscitative Care (30 credits)
  • Applied Emergency Care (30 credits)
  • Neonatal Special and High Dependency Care (30 credits)
  • Neonatal Intensive care (30 credits)
  • Neonatal and Infant Physical Examination (NIPE) (30 credits)
  • Independent Study (30 credits)
  • Independent Study (15 credits)
  • Fundamentals of Infection Prevention and control (Nuffield students only) (15 credits)
  • Enhancing Infection Prevention and control (Nuffield students only) (30 credits)
  • Fundamentals of Infection Prevention and control (Spire students only) (15 credits)
  • Enhancing Infection Prevention and control (Spire students only) (30 credits)
  • Professionalism and Accountability in Clinical Practice (15 credits) (Core module)
  • Organisational Change and Development (15 credits)
  • Research Methods for Health Professionals (15 credits)
  • Service Improvement Project (60 credits)
Pathways

PG Cert Professional Clinical Practice

  • Core module 1: Any module (30 credits)
  • Core module 2: any module (30 credits)
  • Total credits: 60

PG Cert Professional Clinical Practice (Medical care)

  • Core module 1: Recognising and Responding to Acute Physical Deterioration in Adults (30 credits)
  • Core module 2: Diabetes Care and related disorders (30 credits)
  • Total credits: 60

PG Cert Professional Clinical Practice (Long term care)

  • Core module 1: Understanding Chronic disease management and Care (30 credits)
  • Core module 2: Diabetes care and related disorders (30 credits)
  • Total credits: 60

PG Cert Professional Clinical Practice (Critically ill child)

  • Core module 1: Care of the critically ill child and young person (L1&2) (30 credits)
  • Core module 2: Advanced care of the critically ill child/ young person (L2&3) (30 credits)
  • Total credits: 60

PG Cert Professional Clinical Practice (Critical care adult)

  • Core module 1: Principles of care of the acutely ill adult in the critical care environment (30 credits)
  • Core module 2: Applied care of the critically ill adult (30 credits)
  • Total credits: 60

PG Cert Professional Clinical Practice (Emergency care)

  • Core module 1: Applied trauma and resuscitative care (30 credits)
  • Core module 2: Applied Emergency Care (30 credits)
  • Total credits: 60

PG Cert Professional Clinical Practice (Mental health care practice)

  • Core module 1: Therapeutic approaches to acute and common mental health conditions (30 credits)
  • Core module 2: Therapeutic approaches to complex and long term metal health conditions (30 credits)
  • Total credits: 60

PG Cert Professional Clinical Practice (Anaesthetic care)

  • Core module 1: Fundamentals of Anaesthetic care (30 credits)
  • Core module 2: Enhanced Anaesthetic care (30 credits)
  • Total credits: 60

PG Cert Professional Clinical Practice (Surgical care)

  • Core module 1: Perioperative practice (30 credits)
  • Core module 2: Patient safety and Human Factors (surgical focus) (30 credits)
  • Total credits: 60

BSc / Grad Cert/ PG Cert Professional Clinical Practice (Neonatal care)

  • Core module 1: Neonatal Special and High Dependency Care (30 credits)
  • Core module 2: Neonatal Intensive care (30 credits)
  • Total credits: 60

PG Cert Professional Clinical Practice (Cancer care)

  • Core module 1: Understanding cancer from prevention to early diagnosis (30 credits)
  • Core module 2: Foundations in cancer care (30 credits)
  • Total credits: 60

PG Dip Professional Clinical Practice

  • Any module or a core pathway module (30 credits)
  • Any module or a core pathway module (30 credits)
  • Any module(s) up to 30 credits
  • Core module 1: Research Methods in Health Care Practice (15 credits)
  • Core module 2: Professionalism and accountability in clinical practice (15 credits)
  • Total credits: 120

MSc Professional Clinical Practice

  • Any module or a core pathway module (30 credits)
  • Any module or a core pathway module (30 credits)
  • Any module(s) up to 30 credits
  • Core module 1: Research Methods in Health Care Practice (15 credits)
  • Core module 2: Professionalism and accountability in clinical practice (15 credits)
  • Core module 3: Service Improvement Project (60 credits)
  • Total credits: 180

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