Program Overview

Advanced Clinical Practice (Advanced Paediatric Practitioner) MSc

Overview

This course enables you to develop your personal and professional autonomy, providing you with a comprehensive and critical understanding of professional practice, and ensuring that you are fit for future challenges within health and social care.

Course Details

Course Structure

• Year 1 core modules
  • Advanced Paediatric Physical Assessment Skills
  • Competencies for Advanced Paediatric Practitioner
• Year 2 core modules
  • Developing Research Projects
  • Advancing Non-medical Prescribing
  • Negotiated Learning in Advanced Clinical Practice
• Final-year core modules
  • Advanced Practitioner Independent Dissertation Portfolio

How You Learn

We use a range of teaching and learning methods throughout the course. These include key lectures, seminars, laboratory-based learning, structured resource-based learning, electronic discussion, action-learning sets, masterclasses, formative processes, tutorials, small-group work, research tutorials, practical skills-based sessions, reflective practice, independent working, and work-based learning.

How You Are Assessed

Modules within this course have summative assessments to assess the module learning outcomes. The modules use various assessment methods to help develop advanced knowledge and skills for clinical practice. You are assessed on the four pillars of advanced practice throughout the course. Assessment methods include a written assignment, work-based learning through advanced clinical practitioner competencies, consultation clinics, reflective accounts, portfolio development, critical appraisal and evaluation of the evidence base, modified objective structured clinical examination record, viva (oral exam), patient case studies to develop and exhibit high levels of clinical reasoning, and practical exams to demonstrate advanced decision-making skills.

Entry Requirements

• Current registration with relevant professional healthcare body such as the Nursing and Midwifery Council or Health and Care Professions Council
• An honour’s degree in a health-related subject (previous experience and evidence of study at Level 6 may be considered)
• Work in a healthcare organisation, normally at equivalent of band 6 (or above) within an area of advanced practice
• Work in a role which requires diagnostic and therapeutic responsibility for a paediatric patient caseload for a minimum of 20 hours a week
• A minimum of three years’, full-time or equivalent in part-time hours, post-registration clinical experience
• Be able to organise for a suitable practitioner (for example, a medical doctor or an active advanced practitioner) to act as a practice supervisor

Employability

Professional Accreditation

This programme is accredited by Health Education England’s Centre for Advancing Practice.

Part-time

• Entry: September
• Fee for UK applicants: £855 for each 20 credits
• Length: 3 years
• Attendance: 1 day a week

Choose Teesside

• Stand out from other job applicants with your higher level qualification, specialist knowledge, and expanded networks
• Improve your project management, critical thinking, research skills, time management, presentation skills, and teamwork
• The median salary for working-age postgraduates (£45,000) was £6,500 more than for working-age (those aged 16 to 64) graduates (£38,500) in 2022
• Study in our friendly town-centre campus with £280m of recent investment
• Study at Europe's first Adobe Creative Campus and develop your creative and digital skills

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