Postgraduate Diploma in Enhanced Clinical Practice
Online, United Kingdom
Diploma
DURATION
48 months
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
TUITION FEES
GBP 7,440 *
STUDY FORMAT
Distance Learning
* total cost
Key Summary
About: This Postgraduate Diploma in Enhanced Clinical Practice prepares registered health professionals for enhanced clinical roles. You'll develop knowledge and critical understanding across the four pillars of advanced clinical practice: clinical practice, leadership and management, research and education. The programme strengthens holistic and systematic assessment, complex decision making, and delivery of evidence-based interventions. It includes a Non-Medical Prescribing module that, on successful completion, can give regulatory recognition as a non-medical prescriber within your scope of practice.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can move into roles such as advanced clinical practitioner, specialist practitioner, non-medical prescriber, clinical team leader, clinical educator, or research associate. The qualification may support progression into service development, people management, clinical governance and policy or education roles across hospitals, community and primary care settings.
This qualification prepares registered health professionals for enhanced clinical practice roles. You'll develop your knowledge and critical understanding of enhanced clinical practice, leadership, research and education, and the skills that enable you to act with a high level of autonomy. You will enhance your skills in the holistic and systematic assessment, complex decision making, and provision of high-quality evidence-based interventions for patients, clients and their families.
The diploma also incorporates a Non-Medical Prescribing module which, upon successful completion, will enable you to gain regulatory recognition as a non-medical prescriber within your scope of practice.
Key features of the course
- Encompasses the four pillars that underpin advanced clinical practice - clinical practice, leadership and management, research, and education.
- Develops your core capabilities for enhanced Practice and your area-specific clinical practice.
- Provides learning and development of your leadership skills at a clinical level to inform people management and service development.
- Learn to critically appraise, evaluate, implement and disseminate research to support professional practice in your clinical environment.
Course details
To gain this qualification, you will study 120 credits from the following modules:
- Non-medical independent and supplementary prescribing (K803)
- Developing advanced clinical practice (K804)
You should note that the University’s unique study rule applies to this qualification. This means that you must include at least 60 credits from OU modules that have not been counted in any other OU qualification that has previously been awarded to you.
The learning outcomes of this qualification are described in four areas:
- Knowledge and understanding
- Cognitive skills
- Practical and professional skills
- Key skills