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Stand Alone Module
Autonomous Practice
15 Credits
- Duration:
- 15 Weeks
- Start Dates:
- September (Thursday 30 September) and February
- Attendance:
- Weekly
- 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?
This module is suitable for nurses working in a variety of clinical settings who are striving towards becoming advanced practitioners.
Overview
The module will promote critical enquiry and understanding of the issues and implications of advanced practice within the contemporary health care setting. Exploration of issues will relate to the wider socio-political area, taking into account healthcare agendas and your own practice.
Content
This module will explore:
- Accountability and law
- Health promotion and education
- Diversity and inequality
- Scope of advanced professional practice/ inter-professional working
- Leadership and management within healthcare; competence and expertise
What will I learn?
On successful completion of the module, you will be able to:
- Evaluate critically the impact of the advanced practitioners role within multi-professional practice
- Debate the effects of health care policy at a micro and macro level as they impact upon the role of a nurse practitioner
- Critically evaluate strategies for quality assurance and clinical effectiveness and assess their impact and contribution to effective care by the nurse practitioner
- Critically analyse the development of advanced practice in relationship to professional expertise and competence
Teaching and learning
Teaching and Learning strategies will facilitate development and consolidation of advanced clinical assessment, professional and management skills. A variety of strategies will be employed including; assigned reading; key-note lectures to provide depth of insight into specific content; enquiry based learning; development of learning contracts through clinical and link facilitators. You will be encouraged to consider the central issues to your own area of practice and to debate both current provision and future developments. Blackboard VLE will be used to encourage group discussion.
Entry requirements
- Current professional registration on part 1 of the professional register
- 60 Credits at level 5
- Normally a minimum of 2 years experience in a relevant clinical area
- Support of the clinical manager and a suitably qualified mentor
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_payment_of_tuition_fees_form (68.5 KB)
- Authorisation_for_the_payment_of_tuition_fees_Guidance_form_pdf (23.8 KB)
- Clinical_Reference_Form (64.7 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.
Additional Information
- Enquiry_Letter_-_Autonomous_Practice_pdf (18.4 KB)