Advanced Practice in Health Care
Progamme Structure
The Masters in Advanced Practice in Health Care is made up of three components.
- Core course: taught in semester one (40 Credits)
- Optional courses (each 20 credits): taught in 6 week blocks over semesters 1 and 2 (total must be 80 credits)
- A Dissertation (60 credits)
CORE COURSE – 40 credits
Our core course is Research Methods & Statistics and this consolidates and extends the student’s knowledge of research methods and to acquire sufficient information to write a research proposal. This course is a prerequisite for the research-based dissertation or work-based audit and service evaluation.
Assessment
A research proposal of 5,000 words
Optional Courses
Optional courses can lead to a named award in:
- Acute & Critical Care
- Cardiovascular Care
- Chronic Disease Management
- Healthcare Chaplaincy
- Stroke Care
SPECIALIST NAMED AWARD OPTIONS
All students wishing to exit with any specialist named award normally undertake
- Leadership in Contemporary Health Care
- Advanced Health Care Practice
Students wishing to exit with a specialist named award in Acute & Critical Care
must undertake the course
- Acute & Critical Care
Students wishing to exit with a specialist named award in Cardiovascular Care
must undertake the course(s)
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Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Careand/or
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Principles of Acute Cardiac Management
Students wishing to exit with a specialist named award in Chronic Disease Management
must undertake the course(s)
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Assessing and Managing Patients with Complex Symptomsand/or
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Self Management: Principles and Practice
Students wishing to exit with a specialist named award in Stroke Care
must undertake the course
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Clinical issues in Stroke Care
Specialist named awards are attained through ALL assignments within the programme having a specialist focus.
Students can select their remaining credits from the Generic Options listed.
GENERIC OPTIONS
- Advanced Communication Skills in Health Care Practice
- Advanced Health Care Practice
- Assessing and Managing Patients with Complex Symptoms
- Education for Professional Practice
- Ethics for Professional Practice
- Leadership in Contemporary Health Care
- Providing Spiritual and Religious Care in Healthcare
- Professional Practice in Spiritual and Religious Care
- Self Management: Principles and Practice
Assessment
Our courses have both formative and summative assessment. Some elements of the assessment are e-learning based, all summative assessments are coursework based.
DISSERTATION – 60 credits
This aims to consolidate and extend the student’s learning from the Research Methods and Statistics course. Students undertake a supervised research study in the form of either a Research Dissertation, Work Based Audit/Service Evaluation or, Project (International).
