PG Dip/MSc Advanced Clinical Practice and PG Dip/MSc Advanced Clinical Practice (Advanced Nurse Practitioner)

Key Information

Duration & delivery:

2 years part-time (PG Dip), 3 years part-time (MSc qualifications)

An apprenticeship route is also available

Tuition fees: See website for details

Entry requirements:

A Bachelor’s Honours degree with 2:2 in any subject, or equivalent. See website for further criteria about professional experience

This course will enable you to build on your current registrant level of practice through academic and workplace-based learning, in order to attain advanced clinical practice competencies and capabilities. If you are a nurse, then you will undertake the MSc Advanced Clinical Practice (Advanced Nurse Practitioner) qualification; if you are an allied health professional, pharmacist, paramedic, midwife, healthcare scientist or other registered non-medical healthcare professional, then the MSc Advanced Clinical Practice is appropriate for you.

• Attain advanced clinical practice competencies and capabilities, in line with nationally recognised advanced level criteria

• Extend your critical thinking, analytical and reflective skills, and integrate new, as well as enhance existing, clinical practice skills, knowledge and competence, within your practice setting.

Accreditations: NHS England’s Centre for Advancing Practice. Units of study: Contextual Issues & Professional Development | History Taking & Physical Examination for Advancing Practice | Assessment, Critical Reasoning & Decision-Making for Advancing Clinical Practice | Independent & Supplementary Prescribing or Evidencing Professional Learning 1&2 | Advanced Practice Portfolio or Advanced Nurse Practitioner Portfolio | Preparing for Your Service Improvement Project | Service Improvement Project.

MA Advanced Practice

Key Information

Duration & delivery: Maximum of 5 years from registration on to a named award

Tuition fees: See website for details

Entry requirements: A Bachelor’s Honours degree with 2:2 in any subject, or equivalent. See website for further criteria about professional experience

This pathway is aimed at those already working as health and social care professionals or in public services who want to enhance their practice. In recognition of the highly flexible requirements of health and social care practitioners, you can choose from a large variety of units to complete this qualification, mixing and matching the units best suited to your development. The course is delivered on a part-time and CPD basis. Visit our website to see the variety of units available.

We’ve designed the pathway so that you can study individual units, allowing you to steadily work towards a postgraduate qualification, flexibly and at your own pace. You can just sign up to one unit at a time, and there are various entry and exit points. You have five years to achieve all the units for a Master’s degree.

• You can sign up to one unit at a time, and there are various entry and exit points. You have five years to achieve all the units for a Master’s degree

• This course allows you to show your ability to critically evaluate your practice and make evidence-based judgements www.bournemouth.ac.uk/pgdmscacp www.bournemouth.ac.uk/mavpp

• Integrate new and existing skills in a work setting while maintaining and developing high quality practice within health and social care or the public service.