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Stand Alone Module
Scope of Advanced Practice
15 Credits
- Duration:
- 15 Weeks
- Start Dates:
- September
- Attendance:
- One day per week
- Venue:
- Uxbridge Campus
- Cost:
- Available on request
- Key Contact:
- Lesley Bridges
- Tel:
- 01494 522 141
- Email:
- lesley.bridges@bucks.ac.uk
Is this course suitable for me?
This module is suitable for health care professionals working in a variety of clinical settings who are working or striving towards becoming advanced practitioners.
Overview
The aim of this module is to promote conceptual insight and comprehensive understanding of the issues and implications of advanced practice within the contemporary health care setting. Issues will be debated within the context of the wider socio-political arena, health care agendas and your own practice.
Content
This module will explore;
- The contemporary issues relating to the education, development and professional practice for advanced practitioners
- Nature of advanced practice
- Historical perspectives
- Advanced practice for the individual practitioner and expectations of the role
- Recognising advanced practice; how can it be taught?
- Advanced practice and the nature of clinical competence
- Models of advanced and specialist practice
- The wider political agenda, expectations of future practice
- Ethical and professional implications of advanced practice
- Personal and collective issues
- Advanced Practice and interprofessional health care
What will I learn?
On successful completion of the module, you will be able to:
- Debate the contemporary perspectives on advanced practice within a chosen health care setting.
- Analyse the issues and implications of the development of advanced practice taking account of the professional, social, political and strategic health care perspectives.
- Propose appropriate strategies and models for developing advanced practice within the practitioner’s healthcare setting aimed at improving quality and clinical effectiveness.
- Debate the effects of advanced practice on the inter-professional agenda
Teaching and learning
You will engage in classroom-based learning, including group tutorials, individual tutorials and independent study. Keynote sessions will be used to address and provide depth of insight into specific content. Individual tutorials may be face to face, via email or telephone. Blackboard VLE may also be used to encourage group discussion. You will be encouraged to consider the implications of the central issues for your own area of practice and to debate both current provision and future developments.
Entry requirements
- Registered professional qualification (e.g. nursing)
- 60 level 6 credits (or equivalent)
- Normally a minimum of 2 years experience in a relevant clinical area
- Support of the clinical manager and a suitably qualified mentor/assessor
- Opportunity to work outside usual clinical area, if necessary, to gain specific clinical competence
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.
- Course_Enquiry_Letter (70.4 KB)
- Application_form (58.1 KB)
- Notes_for_Guidance (51.6 KB)
- Fee_Authoristaion_Form (61.1 KB)
- Academic_Reference_Form (50.6 KB)
- Clinical_Reference_Form (57.2 KB)
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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.