Course summary
Are you a registered nurse or healthcare professional with an aspiration to develop your career in Advanced Clinical Practice? The MSc Advanced Clinical Practice (named speciality) provides a contemporary pathway to your career development. As a practitioner in the public domain of health and social care services, you are expected to be innovative, provide leadership and make an advanced contribution in your professional clinical role. The philosophy of this course is to use a professional work approach integrated with an understanding of practical application to create a high employability focus and impact on your practice. At all stages, you will be encouraged to take an independent self-learning approach to developing a deep knowledge of your subject area. There are five ‘core’ named specialities available which align to the Transforming Roles, Clinical Core Competencies (Phase 2 Paper): Acute Care Paediatric Neonatal Primary & Community Care Mental Health In order to achieve all clinical competencies and speciality skills for this qualification, you will need to have a clinical supervisor and be employed by a UK healthcare organisation.
Modules
This course is designed to be flexible and dynamic, allowing learning to be tailored to individual career aspirations. You will have the opportunity for inter-professional learning which can be contextualised to your health and/or care environment. If you choose not to complete the full master’s degree, you can exit at various points during the course and achieve an award commensurate to the credits accrued. On completion of this course you will be able to:
- Demonstrate a critical awareness of the main features, boundaries, terminology and conventions associated with advanced clinical practice.
- Apply and use a significant range of the principal professional skills, techniques and practices, which are at the forefront of advanced clinical practice.
- Apply critical analysis, evaluation and synthesis skills to explore and solve complex problems in advanced clinical practice.
- Demonstrate effective leadership and make an identifiable contribution to change and development in the context of advanced clinical practice.
- Plan and execute a significant project of research, investigation or development to inform and enhance health and care practice.
- Access to an experienced clinical academic teaching team, many of whom are qualified Advanced Practitioners and/or Medical Practitioners.
- Access to specialist education in neonates, children and young people and mental health, adult acute care, and primary and community care health.
- Excellent facilities with an award winning Simulation and Clinical Education suite. Excellent Student Satisfaction – (90% overall student satisfaction -Post Graduate Teaching Experience Survey PTES, 2019)
- Excellent opportunities to network, access inter-professional education and share learning
- A flexible course with opportunities to exit with an award that aligns to your speciality and service level needs, supported by a portfolio of practice learning.
- Opportunity to acquire and develop many valuable transferrable intellectual, cognitive and practical skills for your role.
Assessment method
Your progress through the course will be monitored through both formative and summative assessments. Examples include: compulsory tripartite reflection points, self-and peer assessment, case studies, projects, posters, online examinations, portfolios, seminar presentations, dissertation, briefing reports, and impact evaluations.
How to apply
International applicants
The University does not sponsor students to study on part-time programmes in the UK under the Student Visa route. International Applicants must therefore have other valid immigration leave to study on this programme.
Entry requirements
To enrol on this programme you must: - Be a qualified health and/or social care practitioner (for Advanced Practice (Midwifery) you must have an appropriate midwifery/obstetric nurse qualification with supporting evidence) AND - Possess a bachelor degree OR - Be in possession of other qualifications or experience which demonstrates that you have appropriate knowledge and skills at SCQF level 10 e.g. Clinical Decision Making Module OR - Have successfully completed two taught modules equivalent to 40 credits at SCQF level 11 as a student of the University through our Affiliate student scheme. Also you must satisfy the above requirements AND: - Have employer approval to study for a clinical qualification in Advanced Practice, recognising that this programme requires the development of clinical assessment skills, case management and prescribing (where appropriate). - Have an experienced supervisor who has agreed to oversee the development of practice based competence and learning. This supervisor must have extensive knowledge and skills aligned to the field of speciality the practitioner will be working in. This person(s) must be an Advanced Practitioner and/or Medical Practitioner ST3 or above and/or Consultant and/or GP. The practice supervisor must be able to commit to two sessions per month of supervision. We may also consider lesser qualifications if you have sufficient relevant work experience within the industry. The University does not sponsor students to study on part-time programmes in the UK under the Student Visa route. International Applicants must therefore have other valid immigration leave to study on this programme.
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
Edinburgh Napier University
219 Colinton Road
Edinburgh
EH14 1DJ