Advanced Practice in Health Care

Optional Courses

Acute & Critical Care – Acute & Critical Care 

This course seeks to provide the advanced knowledge required to facilitate an enhanced level of clinical decision making in acute and critical care practice and dissemination of evidence based practice through research based learning and independent study skills.

Advanced Communication Skills in Health Care - Generic

This course will enable health care professionals to develop their communication skills to an advanced level and to address challenging communication issues in clinical practice, such as: breaking bad news, dealing with difficult questions, dealing with strong emotions and interpersonal communication. It will facilitate the ability to reflect on, critically analyse and enhance their own interactions for continuous improvement of practice and confidence.

Advanced Health Care Practice – Generic but Compulsory for name award

The ultimate aim of the MSc (Med Sci) Advanced Practice in Health Care programme is to improve professional practice and ensure that practice is soundly based on relevant theory and research. This course facilitates integration of theory and practice promoting professional and personal development of students, in preparation for their role as advanced practitioners.

Assessing and Managing Patients with Complex Symptoms – Chronic Disease Management

The course aims to enable students to critically appraise, select and apply a range of strategies to undertake a comprehensive assessment of the patient/client with complex symptoms. Additionally students will be able to develop strategies to engage with patients/clients as partners in care in order to prioritise and manage symptoms. 

Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Care – Cardiovascular Care

This course aims to develop the student's understanding of cardiovascular disease prevention and care within a diverse and complex society. The course will also foster the student’s ability to critically evaluate contemporary models of cardiovascular disease prevention and care.

Clinical Issues in Stroke Care – Stroke Care

This course aims to prepare the practitioner to gain a deeper understanding of the current clinical issues in stroke care and explore their impact.

 Education for Professional Practice – Generic

This course aims to appraise the contribution of educational theory to education and enable the student to create, implement and evaluate a teaching package.

Ethics for Professional Practice – Generic

The course aims to provide the opportunity for critical analysis and synthesis of the key concepts and themes involved in caring by professionals; enabling the student to reflect on their own experience and practice and be able to apply their learning to the wider setting of professional caring.

Leadership in Contemporary Health Care – Generic but compulsory for named award

The course aims to enable students to understand and critically analyse leadership in contemporary health service delivery with a global perspective.

The course will also facilitate the development of skills that will enable students to effectively lead, facilitate and supervise others involved in caring for diverse groups of patients / clients within a constantly evolving health and social care environment.   

Principles of Acute Cardiac Management – Cardiac Care

This course encourages students to reflect on how acute cardiac care is integrated into processes of service delivery to both sustain life and maintain dignity. By integrating the evidence from research into clinical practice students are encouraged to benchmark practice to the holistic needs of the acutely ill cardiac patient and their family.

Professional Practice in Spiritual & Religious Care in Healthcare – Healthcare Chaplaincy

This course aims to develop student’s understanding and evaluation of professional practice in spiritual and religious care in healthcare. It considers practice from the perspective of individuals, healthcare teams and the healthcare unit or institution.  Through critical analysis of practice issues students will be encouraged to evaluate the core elements of legal, safe, accountable and effective practice and evaluate the implications for their own professional practice.

Providing Spiritual & Religious Care in Health Care – Healthcare Chaplaincy

This course aims to develop students’ understanding and assessment of the spiritual and religious needs of patients, carers and staff with reference to the main world faith and belief groups. Through reflection on personal communication skills in pastoral encounters and focusing on skills in reflective practice, students will be encouraged to critically evaluate their personal practice and the local and national procedures and protocols for spiritual and religious care services.

Self Management: Principles and Practice

This course aims to enable students to understand the context of self management programmes within contemporary health and social care.  The course will also foster the student’s ability to critically evaluate the different models of self management and to consider how self management can be integrated within specific health or social care settings.