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BSc (Hons)
Advanced Nurse Practitioner
- Duration:
- Two to Four years
- Start Dates:
- September
- Attendance:
- One study day plus two supervised clinical days per week with clinical supervisor, over four semesters
- Venue:
- Uxbridge Campus
- Cost:
- Available on request
- Key Contact:
- Julie Irwin
- Tel:
- 01494 522 141
- Email:
- julie.irwin@bucks.ac.uk
Is this course suitable for me?
The course has been planned and developed to meet the requirements of the standards and criteria for RCN accreditation of nurse practitioner programmes in higher education institutions. It has utilised the RCN Domains and Competencies for Nurse Practitioners (2007) to facilitate this process. The institution believes that nurse practitioners offer a unique service to clients and their families, operating at the boundaries between medicine and nursing. The course aims to equip these practitioners with advanced assessment, diagnostic and decision-making skills to enable them to work as autonomous professionals.
Overview
You will undertake two 15-credit modules and three 30-credit modules.
These consist of:
- Evidence Based Practice – 15 Credits
- Autonomous Practice 15 Credits
- Pathophysiology and Assessment of Illness and Injury 30 Credits
- Integrated Portfolio Practice 30 Credits
One optional module of either;
- Independent and Supplementary Prescribing 45 Credits or
- Clinical Judgement, Diagnostic Reasoning and Pharmacology. 30 Credits
Clinical practice
You will spend the equivalent of at least two full days per week supervised practice in order to develop the core competencies and achieve the learning outcomes for the course. In order to protect clients, students attending the course will undertake assessment of the client and make clinical decisions under the direct supervision of a mentor.
Teaching and learning
The course will consist of a variety of teaching learning and assessment methods including lectures, seminars, discussions, VLE, demonstrations and group work.
Assessment strategies include essay writing, reflection of an audio-taped interview/health history consultation, patient profile, examination, portfolio assessment and the objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) to examine physical assessment and differential diagnosis skills
Entry requirements
- Current professional registration on parts 1 of the Professional Register.
- Clinical experience in an appropriate specialist area of practice.
- A post-registration qualification (normally at least two years post-registration).
- Normally one other clinical course relating to the speciality. This ensures that the student has developed his/her practice beyond the basic level of practice.
- In clinical contact with patients for at least two days per week.
- 120 credits at level 5 or 6.
How to make an application
Please contact the Marketing & Recruitment Administrator on 01494 603 171 or ask@bucks.ac.uk
We hope to have a fully on-line application system shortly, but in the meantime, to apply for a course, please download and print these forms, completing them fully and posting back to the address below.
- Academic_Reference_Form (56.1 KB)
- Application_form (58.1 KB)
- Authorisation_for_the_payment_of_tuition_fees_Guidance_form_pdf (23.8 KB)
- Authorisation_for_payment_of_tuition_fees_form (68.5 KB)
- Clinical_Reference_Form (64.7 KB)
- Bsc_Nurse_Pracitioner_clinical_sites_evaluation_form (66.9 KB)
If you are unable to view the forms, please click here to download a free version of adobe reader.
Alternatively, if you call us on 01494 603 171 or email ask@bucks.ac.uk we can post you a hard copy application pack.
Students funded by the NHS or other employer
If the cost of your course is being funded by your employer, please contact your education lead or manager for guidance as to how they would prefer you to make an application.
Additional Information
- enquiry_letter_Nurse_Practitioner__BSc_ (16.2 KB)