Course summary
Our Advanced Clinical Practice MSc offers an exciting opportunity to broaden your scope and level of practice to become an Advanced Practitioner. This course is open to experienced registered healthcare professionals wishing to advance their career at masters level. This is a multi-professional course supporting health professionals from a wide range of disciplines and specialist roles. Advanced practice is an evolving level of practice enabling experienced senior staff working in the NHS and other healthcare organisations to develop their role or innovate their practice across the four pillars of advanced practice: clinical, education, research, management and leadership. The masters level course is accredited by the Centre for Advancing Practice and aligned to the multi-professional framework for advanced practice in England, covering the four pillars of advanced practice. There are three routes providing a choice of modules and pathways that include finishing the masters by completing a research project or leading on the development of a service improvement project. This invaluable experience will enable practitioners to function at an advanced level within the healthcare system. The course team are multi-professional reflecting how healthcare teams work in practice and provides specialist and advanced knowledge, while supporting students through the course and in partnership with employers and supervisors in practice.
Modules
After applying you'll choose one of three pathways to follow:
- ACP Research Advancement, where you will normally complete an empirical study or a work-based research project
- ACP Service Improvement, where you lead on a service improvement project plan
- ACP Advanced Therapy, where you'll have more choice of optional modules to enhance your specialist practice and choose between the core leadership modules depending on whether you take the research dissertation module.
- Health Professional as an Educator
- Health Law and Ethics for Informed Practice
- Research Theory and Application for Health Professionals
- Quantitative Research Methods
- End of Life Care for People with Long Term Conditions (Advanced Practice)
- Respiratory Care (Level 7)
- Integrated Care for the Older Person (Level 7)
- Integrated Care for the Older Person (Level 6)
- Managing Complexity in Advanced Practice
- Leading Service Improvement Project (LSIP) in Advanced Practice
- Mixed Methods Research
- Qualitative Research
- Child Advanced Physical Assessment, Pathophysiology and Clinical Decision-Making (Level 7)
- Independent Prescribing
- Health Law and Ethics for Informed Practice
- Research Theory and Application for Health Professionals
- End of Life: Principles of Care (Advanced Practice)
- Heart Failure (Level 7)
- Leading Advance Practice (LAP)
- Physical Assessment of Cardiac and Respiratory Conditions (Level 7)
- Dissertation
- Advancing Competency in Specialism through Work-based Learning
- Advanced Health Assessment (Adult)
Entry requirements
Applicants should: - be registered with an appropriate professional healthcare body in the UK (for example, HCPC, NMC, RCOT) and should normally have a minimum of three years post-registration experience - be working for a minimum of 15 hours a week in a trainee advanced practice role or developing your advanced level of practice with the backing of your employer or manager – applicants are normally required to attend an interview - normally hold a first degree – applicants who have 60 or more level-6 credits or a non-honours degree meet the requirements if all 60 credits have been awarded in the last five years, otherwise you would normally be expected to demonstrate your ability to study at this level by completing a level 7 module before enrolment Recognition of prior learning/recognition of prior experiential learning (RPL/RPEL) is available to all students enrolled on educational programmes within the school.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
No fee information has been provided for this course
Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .
Additional fee information
No additional fees or cost information has been supplied for this course, please contact the provider directly.
Provider information
University of Brighton
Mithras House
Lewes Road
Brighton
BN2 4AT