The MSc Advanced Practice is a flexible programme structured to provide core and option modules, and tailored to the individual student profile. Prior to starting the course, each student will discuss their sphere of work, personal preference and professional aspirations in order to select appropriate modules and create an individual programme plan.
Core modules (90 credits)
- Personal and professional developments in advanced practice
- Research methods
- Research project planning and management
- Dissertation
Option modules (any Level 7 modules offered by the Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences)
- Active case management in advanced practice
- Advancing practice in mental health
- Applied pathophysiology and advanced clinical reasoning
- Collaborative working and treatment decisions facilitating concordance
- Contemporary issues in the management of people with long term conditions
- Practice teacher (NMC mentor stage 3)
- Prescribing (this is for pharmacists, nurses and AHPs)
- Work-based learning
The course is also available as a postgraduate certificate and postgraduate diploma, depending on the number of modules studied.
There are three routes to take:
1. Named award pathways, eg
- Psycho-social Interventions
- Prescribing
- Cancer
- Cancer, Clinical Reasoning and Decision Making
2. Standalone modules (that can be APL'd into MSc)
- Prescribing (60 credits)
- Practice teacher (30 credits)
- any Level 7 module
3. Direct entry
- Core modules
- Option modules
Come along to one of our Postgraduate open evenings to find the course that's right for you.
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