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MSc
Advanced Nurse Practitioner
- Duration:
- Three Years
- Start Dates:
- September
- Attendance:
- 24 taught study days (Thursday) per academic year
- Venue:
- Uxbridge Campus
- Cost:
- On application
- Key Contact:
- Julie Irwin
- Tel:
- 01494 603 171
- Email:
- julie.irwin@bucks.ac.uk
Is this course suitable for me?
This advanced level course provides opportunity and scope for all nurses to develop as expert autonomous nurse practitioners within all fields of health care. The course is designed to enrich personal and professional development in advanced nurse practitioner practice enhancing knowledge and skills to improve clinical competence, leadership skills practice and service provision. The course has been mapped against the proposed RCN and NMC Advanced Nurse Practitioner Competencies and Key Skills and Knowledge Framework.
Overview
This course offers an exciting opportunity to explore this expanding field of advanced practice and is aimed at all those nurses working in areas of advanced practice within their respective primary or secondary care organisations. The course has been designed to meet the RCN Domains and Competencies for nurse practitioner practice. The course will comprise six taught modules over two years for Postgraduate diploma.
These are:
- Scope of Advanced Practice
- Physiology and Assessment of Health Illness and Injury
- Health Care Needs and Outcomes: Methods and Measurement
- Innovations in health care: Leadership and Management
- Clinical Judgement and Diagnostic Reasoning
- Pharmacology/ Nurse Prescribing
An MSc Advanced Nurse Practitioner will be awarded on successful completion of a dissertation.
Entry requirements
Entry to the MSc normally requires a good honours degree (min 2:2) or min 60 credits at Level Three (with good grades) plus evidence of experiential learning, and should include formal study of research methods preferably at Level 6. We would also look for current professional registration, evidence of recent study at Level 6 within the last three years, a minimum employment period of 15 hours in a clinical area, and qualified professional experience of acting as a facilitator/ mentor in practice.
Further opportunities
This programme will provide you with the skills and knowledge to practice at the cutting edge of nursing. The generic course focuses and explores both the professional and practice elements essential to work at an advanced level of practice. Importantly it maps against the skills and knowledge framework to assist career development.
How to make an application
Please contact the Enquiries Team on 01494 603 171 or email 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.
- MSc_Nurse_Practitioner_-_Clinical_sites_evaluation_form (32 KB)
- Course_Enquiry_Letter (70.4 KB)
- Application_form (58.1 KB)
- Fee_Authoristaion_Form (61.1 KB)
- Academic_Reference_Form (50.6 KB)
- Clinical_Reference_Form (57.2 KB)
- Notes_for_Guidance (51.6 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.