Course summary
The MSc Advanced Clinical Practitioner course is healthcare professionals who want to extend the scope of their practice regarding consultation, assessment, diagnosis and therapeutic interventions. Modern healthcare services are dynamic, diverse and challenging, often requiring care and interventions delivered by healthcare practitioners with advanced clinical skills and sound theoretical knowledge. The MSc Advanced Clinical Practitioner will allow you to develop your skills at an advanced level, thereby meeting the requirements set by National Leadership and Innovation Agency for Healthcare (NLIAH). You will develop your understanding of altered physiology to effectively assess patients health or ill health status. In addition you will study research methods, influences on current health care practices and independent prescribing. The MSc Advanced Clinical Practitioner can be achieved within three years and you will need to be supported by a medical and professional mentor in practice.
Modules
Year One: MSc Advanced Clinical Practitioner •Clinical Conditions1 This will involve developing your understanding of altered physiological processes in relation to cardiovascular, respiratory and musculoskeletal disease processes, for example Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), heart failure and Myasthenia Gravis disease. •Clinical Skills 1 This will involve further developing your knowledge and skills in relation to examining patients with cardiac, respiratory and musculosketal diseases. This will include completing a comprehensive patient medical history, thoroughly examining each system mentioned above and identifying their treatment and management plan based on an individual clinical presentation. •Influences on practice You will debate the political, legal and professional influences on advanced practice in context with today’s healthcare system. Professional influences include considering the role of advanced practice within the Welsh Advanced Practice Framework. Legal influences include accountability and political influences will address the requirements advocated by Welsh Government. Year Two: MSc Advanced Clinical Practitioner •Clinical conditions 2 This will involve developing your understanding of altered physiological processes in relation to endocrine, neurological and abdominal disease processes, for example Diabetes and Thyroid disease, Parkinson’s disease, liver and gut diseases. •Clinical Skills 2 You will continue to develop your knowledge and skills in relation to examining patients with endocrine, neurological and abdominal disease. This will include completing a comprehensive patient medical history, thoroughly examining each system mentioned above and identifying their treatment and management plan based on an individual clinical presentation. •Research methods You will learn how to critically evaluate a range of research methodologies. Year Three: MSc Advanced Clinical Practitioner Year three of the MSc Advanced Clinical Practitioner has a choice of two pathways: •A dissertation of 15,000 words (for the 60 credit module) or 10,000 (for the 40 credit module) where you will choose a topic relevant to your own area of practice and critically evaluate the role of the advanced practitioner within that area (60 credits). Or •Independent Prescribing (40 credits) plus one optional module from the following: •Open module (20 credits) •Critical reflection on learning in the workplace (20 credits) •Leading effective teams in health and social care (20 credits)
Assessment method
Assessment includes objective structured clinical examination (OSCE).
Entry requirements
Applicants must be a registered nurse, midwife, SCPHN, health visitor, physiotherapist or pharmacist, or paramedic educated to at least degree level; candidates must have a minimum of 3 years’, full-time, post-registration experience (or equivalent part-time) and be in current employment; accreditation of prior and experiential learning (APEL) are considered.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
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Additional fee information
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Provider information
University of South Wales
Llantwit Road
Treforest
Pontypridd
CF37 1DL