Professional Clinical Practice MSc

Professional Clinical Practice MSc

This program continues your professional education and helps you to develop high-level decision making and leadership skills in complex situations which will help you to develop clinical practice and positively impact patient care.

This course shares teaching with other students from nursing and health care modules so that students can network, share ideas and debate.

One of the specialist elements of the program is that students can ‘step on’ and ‘step off’ the program at a variety of exit points. Students must complete 60 credits for the PG Cert, 120 credits for the PG Dip and 180 credits for the MSc and will study relevant clinical and core modules. If required students can achieve an exit award relevant to their clinical speciality.

Where appropriate, recognition of prior learning and experience can be accredited and students may have up to six years studying part time to complete their MSc.

We offer more than 50 different modules, which gives students the opportunity to explore their clinical speciality in depth. Examples of our modules include: Care of the Critically Ill Child/Adult, Responding to Physical Deterioration in Adults, Emergency Care and Trau

• Introduction to Contraception and sexual health
• Contraception sexual health, theory and clinical practice
• Women’s Health 30Minor Illness Management
• Consultation and physical examination Skills
• Minor Injuries management
• Surgical First Assistant (LBR)
• Surgical First Assistant (Nuffield)
• Surgical First assistant (Spire)
• Perioperative and Surgical Practice
• Diabetes care and related disorders
• Patient Safety and Human factors in Health Care.
• Patient Safety and Human factors in Health Care (spire)
• Patient Safety and Human factors in Health Care (Nuffield)
• Supporting Neurodiversity in Professional Clinical Practice
• Principles of Care of the Acutely Ill Adult in the critical care environment
• Principles of Care of the Acutely Ill Adult in the critical care environment (Spire)
• Principles of Care of the Acutely Ill Adult in the critical care environment (Nuffield)
• Recognising and responding to acute physical deterioration in adults
• Applied care of the critically ill adult
• Applied Care of the Critically Ill Adult (Spire)
• Applied Care of the Critically Ill Adult (Nuffield)
• Care of the critically ill child / young person (L1&2)
• Advanced Care of the critically Ill child/young person (L2&3)
• Fundamentals of Anaesthesia
• Enhanced Anaesthetic Care
• Gastroenterology and Hepatology
• Stoma Care (SALT)
• Understanding Chronic Disease management and care
• Managing Pain
• Applied Trauma and Resuscitative Care
• Applied Emergency Care
• Neonatal Special and High Dependency Care
• Neonatal Intensive care
• Neonatal and Infant Physical Examination (NIPE)
• Independent Study
• Independent Study
• Therapeutic approaches to acute and common mental health conditions
• Therapeutic approaches to complex and long term mental health conditions
• Fundamentals of Infection Prevention and control (Nuffield)
• Enhancing Infection Prevention and control (Nuffield)
• Fundamentals of Infection Prevention and control (Spire)
• Enhancing Infection Prevention and control (Spire)
• Professionalism and Accountability in Clinical Practice
• The Principles of Practical Assessment in Health Care Practice
• Foundations in Cancer Care
• Understanding cancer care from prevention to early diagnosis
• Palliative and Supportive Care
• Palliative symptom management in long term conditions
• Self- Management in Cancer Care (Macmillan students only )
• Organisational Change and Development
• Research Methods for Health Professionals (Level 7)
• Safeguarding vulnerable Adults, Children and Young People.
• Service Improvement Project

On completion of this course, students will fulfil the academic requirements in order to practice as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner. This anticipates possible future NMC regulation, and complies with standards across all the different nations of the UK.