ObjectivesThe Advanced Health Care Practice Masters programme offers health care professionals, with a professional registration, the opportunity and scope to develop their potential as expert practitioners and leaders.
Nurses who successfully complete the programme, studying specific optional modules, to Postgraduate Diploma level receive an approved Nurse Practitioner certificate from the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) in addition to the Advanced Health Care Practice Diploma.
Entry requirementsYou should normally hold a first degree or equivalent qualification and hold first registration with a professional body, such as the Nursing and Midwifery Council or the Health Professions Council.
Academic titlePgCert/PgDip/Msc Advanced Health Care Practice
Course descriptionProgramme Highlights
-Allows for local provision of multi-professional education at an advanced level.
-Designed by health academics in collaboration with service providers.
-Nurses are able to obtain an Approved Nurse Practitioner certificate from the RCN.
Detailed programme structure
Teaching occurs within supportive multi-professional and interagency environments. It is delivered by experts in a setting where innovative thinking regarding advanced health care development is put into practice.
The programme has two specific pathways; one for nurses wishing to gain the RCN Nurse Practitioner qualification, for which Principles of Leadership and Management must be completed in the second year, and secondly a pathway for nurses and other health professionals not taking the RCN route where an option from the integrated masters scheme can be taken.
Postgraduate Certificate
-Clinical Decision Making and the Consultation 10 credits
-Integrated Biosciences and Applied Pharmacology 20 credits
-Applied Clinical Skills for Healthcare Practice I 20 credits
-Legal Principles in Health Care Practice 10 credits
Postgraduate Diploma
Core Modules
-Research Methods 20 credits
-Applied Clinical Skills for Healthcare Practice II 20 credits
-Management and Leadership and Data Analysis 10 credits
-Principles and Practice of Data Analysis 10 credits
Master of Science
Project 60 credits
Learning Outcomes
-Apply ethical principles to inform practice at all times.
-Communicate and work with others from a variety of professional backgrounds, and service users, to investigate, evaluate and improve service provision.
-Display knowledge and skills that enhance expert practice and leadership in the provision and development of services.
-Engage in and reflect on continuing personal and professional development to improve knowledge whilst demonstrating and sharing expert practice.
-Present cogently reasoned arguments, based on critical analysis and synthesis of evidence from policy, theory and research.
-Use appropriate research methods to investigate and evaluate practice and service provision.