Program Overview

Advanced Professional and Clinical Practice (MSc)

Overview

This 16 month taught Masters programme nurtures talented and innovative nurses, midwives and other professional practitioners, placing practice at the forefront. The programme is delivered through ten specialist pathways, enabling students from different professional backgrounds to review and update their practice and benefit from shared learning and then contribute to improving the quality and effectiveness of health and social care provision globally.

Course Structure

The programme and pathways will appeal to practitioners working in a wide range of practice areas who are committed to their own personal and professional development. Graduates of this programme move into senior practice roles, management and leadership positions, or progress onto a career in research or education.

Specialist Pathways:

• MSc (Critical and Acute Care)
• MSc (Cancer Nursing: Supportive and Palliative Care)
• MSc (Leadership and Management)
• MSc (Mental Health Care)
• MSc (Care of Older People)
• MSc (Midwifery Care)
• MSc (Care of Children & Young People)
• MSc (Intellectual Disabilities)
• MSc (Practice Education)
• MSc (Maternal and Family Health)

Admission to a specialist pathway may require applicants to have current

or recent practice experience in the related area. The Programme Co-ordinator will provide individual advice on module choices at enrolment.

Programme Details

• Duration: 16 months
• Attendance: 36 months (Part-time), 16 months (Full-time)
• Places available: - (Part Time), - (Full Time)
• Entry requirements: 2.2 Honours degree or above, or equivalent qualification acceptable to the University
• Tuition fees: £7,300 (NI), £7,300 (ROI), £9,250 (GB), £21,500 (EU Other), £21,500 (International)
• Additional course costs: £4,500 (placement charge)

Modules

• Dissertation (60 credits)
• Clinical Practice (0 credits)
• Mental Health Essentials (20 credits)
• Advances in Health Evidence and People with Intellectual Disabilities (20 credits)
• Contemporary Care Delivery in Intellectual Disability Practice (20 credits)
• Implementing Continuity of Midwifery Carer (CoMC) for All Women (20 credits)
• Frailty, Rehabilitation and Enablement (20 credits)
• Acute Cardiac Nursing (20 credits)
• Health and Well-being in Later Life (20 credits)
• Nursing Care of Older People (20 credits)
• Theories and principles of practice education (20 credits)
• Practice teaching and learning for health and social care professionals (20 credits)
• Special and intensive nursing care of the neonate (40 credits)
• The art and science of neonatal nursing care (20 credits)
• Advancing the Speciality of Orthopaedic and Fracture Trauma Nursing (20 credits)
• Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing Therapy – Supervision and Development of Professional (20 credits)
• Simulation based education, theory and practice in health care (20 credits)
• Physiology: Homeostasis in Acute/Critical Health Care (20 credits)
• Enabling Inter Professional Practice (20 credits)
• Cancer Services, Design and Strategic Involvement (20 credits)
• Applied Biomedical Aspects of Cancer Care (20 credits)
• Complexity in Pregnancy: Midwifery Care for Women and their Families (20 credits)
• Successful leading for health and social care professionals (20 credits)
• Health Assessment (20 credits)
• Principles of Critical Care in Midwifery (20 credits)
• Applied Research Methods and Statistics in Healthcare (20 credits)
• Qualitative Research Methods (20 credits)
• Pharmacotherapeutics for Practice (20 credits)
• Enhancing care and practice for children with complex health care needs (20 credits)
• Perspectives of family centred health & social care (20 credits)
• Enhanced Person-centred Practice (20 credits)
• Leading in Health and Social Care (20 credits)
• Independent Study Module (20 credits)
• Enhancing Knowledge and Skills: Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR 2) (20 credits)
• Introduction to Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR

1. (20 credits)

• Evidence Based Practice (20 credits)
• Perinatal Mental Health (20 credits)
• Holistic Approach to Cancer Care (20 credits)