MSc - Advanced Clinical Practice
If you’re a registered health professional wanting to boost your career, our flexible distance learning course will see you enhance your qualifications and further your career opportunities..
Our Institute for Health course will develop your knowledge and skills in: health assessment, diagnostic reasoning, clinical decision-making and leadership - all you need to bolster your CV and climb the career ladder.
Course Overview
You will develop qualities needed for senior healthcare roles, including in circumstances requiring the assessment, diagnosis, problem solving, clinical decision making and treatment of patients with undifferentiated undiagnosed conditions. We will enhance your knowledge and skills in leadership and caring for clients with complex needs. Healthcare is a complex and unpredictable environment, which requires personal responsibility and initiative, skills we will help you build throughout the course.
On this course you will...
- Develop a comprehensive and systematic knowledge and practical understanding of how techniques of rigorous enquiry enable the critical appraisal, interpretation and application of evidence as it concerns the field of advanced practice.
- Critically appraise different models of leadership and management and apply them appropriately to enable advanced practice service development and improvement, demonstrating originality of thought and the development of strategic thinking in response to a changing and dynamic practice environment and to health and social policy.
- Critically appraise a range of theoretical concepts and frameworks for collaborative working and therapeutic relationships (embracing equality and diversity), demonstrating mastery in their application and innovative approaches to multi-agency working in the arena of advanced practice, including user/carer engagement and team working.
- Make rational and sound professional judgements and use a range of techniques in relation to the assessment of health needs of individuals.
Location
Online Learning
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