Advanced Practice
MSc
Intermediate award(s): PG Dip, PG CertCourse overview
This course enables practitioners from the health, welfare and social care arena to develop their knowledge and extend and advance their practice to meet the increasingly complex demands within health, welfare and social care services.Nowadays, broader responsibilities are being delegated to larger numbers of practitioners. This course will enable you to advance your knowledge, skills and professional practice to undertake these new and extended roles. The readiness to work across organisational boundaries, to innovate and take on more demanding responsibilities will be explored, while innovation, research and creativity will be fostered, so that you can influence practice and service delivery and bring about change. Leadership and interprofessional multidisciplinary working will be developed in line with Government initiatives.
Course content
The course comprises 2 compulsory modules.Core modules
Research (30 credits)
This module provides a critical overview of research philosophy and the major methodological and design approaches to research in order to equip students to appreciate the strengths and weaknesses of published research, whether in their specialist area or in the health, welfare and social care field.
Major Project (60 credits)
The major project is of central importance to the Masters award. You will be expected to bring together aspects of learning from previous modules as well as using the learning as the basis for planning, conducting and writing a research or work-based project
Optional modules
Advanced Communication (30 credits)
This interprofessional module is based upon experiential learning to explore the student's own learning needs in relation to communication issues. You will reflect upon the importance of good communication and explore the theory of communication in complex situations. You will have the opportunity to practice and critically review your micro skills in a safe environment. This will enable the development of reflexivity and increased self awareness in relation to your own performance. The module will require students to identify stressors prevalent in this work in order to broaden their repertoire of coping strategies.
Advanced Non medical prescribing (30 credits)
The module aims to prepare nurses, midwives, specialist community public health nurses and pharmacists to prescribe safely, appropriately and cost effectively as independent and supplementary prescribers. It also aims to prepare allied health professionals to prescribe safely, appropriately and cost effectively as supplementary prescribers and provide an opportunity for interprofessional students to debate, analyse and synthesise key issues within safe prescribing practice and its contribution to health care.
Advanced Skills in Clinical Assessment (30 credits)
During this module you will develop and integrate your existing knowledge and skills with the concept and ideas of health care in the 21st century. This module will enable you to develop your professional knowledge and clinical skills to support, develop and deliver innovative nursing services for patients in a variety of health care settings.
Collaborative Practice for Integrated Care (30 credits)
The role of individuals is a central part of the government's agenda for modernisation, as evidenced by the creation of consultant practitioners posts (e.g. consultant nurse and consultant therapist). These posts function across professional and organisational boundaries and provide strategic direction to their particular area of expertise. Equally, in social work closer links are being forged in terms of policy, practice and organisations. Implementing this policy is often fraught with difficulties. Interprofessional working/partnerships require the development of skills and knowledge to build capacity for shared understanding and maintaining relationships or focus. This module seeks to address some of the most salient issues.
Facing Death: Patients, Families and Professionals (30 credits)
This module explores some of the psychosocial and spiritual dimensions of patients' encounters with death, contemplating the potential for multiple losses and grief and also the possibility of growth and transcendence at this time. The demand is for truly holistic practice from a multidisciplinary team. The module will consider the needs for support and care for all the parties involved; patients who face their own death, family/friends who face the death of loved ones, and care staff who expend energies and emotions caring for patient and families. The module deals with theory related to death, loss and bereavement, counselling skills and the importance of the caring relationship to patients. It also considers the patient's network of relationships and their dynamics.
Global Leadership
Organisations and Businesses, whether private, public or third sector, operate in a world facing a range of urgent global issues. This module examines the fitness of organisations or businesses in the Health and Social care arena to tackle many of the diverse issues such as decision making, holistic and ethical leadership and the effects of market forces on resourcing and service delivery. Our module is based on the Global Leadership model developed by lecturers at our University. Concepts such as effective decision making, the impact of the individual in a leadership role, and organisational culture will be considered. Our module also considers the related concept of MisLeadership, which looks at how leaders have often failed to achieve the optimum outcomes for those they lead. Leaders predominantly create context and this module will explore the skills required to successfully mould and develop the context in a complex evolving environment.
Law and Ethics in Health and Social Care
This module will enable you to acquire a detailed and critical understanding of the generic ethical and legal theories and principles that underpin health and social care (e.g. consent, confidentiality, duty to care, human rights). You will also have the opportunity to focus on particular aspects of law and ethics that have relevance to your practice or personal interest This module is particularly relevant to health and social care professionals wishing to develop crucial insights into legal and ethical issues in practice.
Pain and Symptom Management in Palliative Care
This module will provide you with the opportunity to develop a comprehensive understanding of effective pain and symptom relief strategies, and will include both pharmacological and non-pharmacological methodologies. The broad bases of the treatment regimes recognise the breadth of the 'pain' of death, which demands a holistic approach. Thus the concept of total pain is considered, as is the associated notion of suffering. Under these circumstances the need for exquisite care practice highlights the value of the multidisciplinary team.
Assessment
A range of assessments are used including essays, presentations, formulation of a research proposal, a research project, and a patchwork text. Assessment topics are generated from practice requiring critical and innovative thinking drawing on a range of conceptual frameworks designed to enhance student's skills to support the development of practice.Formative assessment strategies such as seminar papers, group presentations, case reports are integrated as part of the teaching and learning and are used to provide ongoing feedback about student progress and develop a range of communication skills which will support professional development.
Summative Assessment is integrated closely with learning and you will be able to focus assignments to ensure relevance to their professional and personal development. The ability to problem solve in practice will underpin the basis of assessment of the students creativity in addressing a range of issues specific to their practice.
Sarah Todd
MSc Advanced Practice Student
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Yes, it has been fantastic - I have really loved having the opportunity to meet and debate with lecturers and fellow students from diverse health and social backgrounds.
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Special features
This course is well-established, with a very strong interprofessional focus and you will be joining a vibrant community of health and social care professionals. You will have access to excellent facilities and academic staff with a wealth of experience and research interests which cross the broad spectrum of health and social care. We also offer a wide range of student support services. If your first language is not English, you will benefit from a number of study skills sessions available throughout each semester. In addition, you will be allocated a personal tutor who will provide support throughout your time with us.Facilities
The MSc Advanced Practice course is well established and has a very strong interprofessional focus. You will be joining a vibrant community of health and social care professionals and have access to excellent facilities and academic staff with a wealth of experience and research interests that crosses the broad spectrum of health and social care. The University also has a wide range of student support services you can draw on. For those joining us whose first language is not English, you will benefit from a number of study skills sessions available throughout each semester. In addition you will be allocated a personal tutor who will provide support throughout your time with us.Shirley Jones
Course Leader for MSc Advanced Practice
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I worked as a physiotherapist in the NHS before moving into higher education as a lecturer, then senior lecturer, teaching on undergraduate physiotherapy programmes in Liverpool. Since joining Anglia Ruskin University I have been involved in interprofessional education working with students from a variety of health and social care backgrounds. My main research interests focus on the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and education of health and social care professionals and the promotion of interprofessional collaboration.
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Associated careers
The course has many benefits to practitioners who wish to enhance and broaden their career progression as it aims to provide them with the opportunity to:- develop their knowledge, skills and dispositions to undertake advanced practice; prepare for new and extended roles;
- enhance their understanding of inter-professional issues;
- integrate primary research into their practice;
- meet CPD and re-registration requirements.
| Entry Requirements: | Students need to be practising health, welfare or social care practitioners and possess an appropriate professional qualification or equivalent. In addition, students should be educated to degree level. Students without a first degree can apply via the non-graduate entry route, which is facilitated by a member of the university's academic staff. International applicants will be required to demonstrate the university standard of English language (IELTS) at Level 7 (including written English) prior to commencement on a course. Students who do not meet this requirement will be advised to seek support from Anglia Ruskin University's Language Centre. The courses offered within the Language Centre are ideal for any student who wants to improve their English in order to progress to a university course. For further information about the Anglia Ruskin University Language Centre please visit: www.anglia.ac.uk/arulc |
For international students:
Applicants will be required to demonstrate the university standard of English language (IELTS) at Level 7 (including written English) prior to commencement on a course. Students who do not meet this criterion will be advised to seek support from ALS English language programme prior to commencement of the course.
International Students
Due to the specific content of this programme candidates must already hold nursing registration with the UK Nursing and Midwifery Council, and also be employed as a nurse within the UK currently and throughout the duration of the course. We therefore expect that international students who meet this requirement will be in the UK on the appropriate employment visa.How to apply
Locations
Duration
2 yearsTeaching times*
Chelmsford: Tues 9.30-12.30pmCambridge: Fri 9.00-12.00pm
Teaching times for guidance only and subject to change.
Available starts
September, JanuaryStudent finance
Open Day
Saturday 13 JulyPostgraduate Open Day
Faculty
Health, Social Care & EducationDepartment
Allied Health and MedicineContact us
UK and EU applicants:- Call 01245 686868
- Complete enquiry form
- Call +44 (0)1245 493131 ext 2609
- Complete enquiry form
*Teaching days and times are for guidance only and are subject to change each academic year. We advise all applicants to wait until they are in receipt of their timetable before making arrangements around their course times.
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