Nursing - Advanced Nursing Practice MSc/Postgraduate Diploma
Entry requirementsYou should normally possess a first degree and have at least two year’s experience as a registered nurse. If you wish to undertake this route you must be registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council and working clinically within a healthcare setting. If you do not have a first degree you will be considered, but may have to demonstrate an ability to study at degree level. For those students whose first language is not English one of the following qualifications are also required: * IELTS: 7.0 * TOEFL (internet-based): 107
Academic titleNursing - Advanced Nursing Practice MSc/Postgraduate Diploma
Course descriptionCourse overview
This Master’s course allows you to develop as an advanced practitioner in adult or children’s nursing. The course facilitates skills acquisition within the framework of the NMC (2005) and RCN (2008) Domains of Practice and Competencies in Advanced Practice. If you take the MSc Nursing - Advanced Nursing Practice route you will be expected to undertake specific modules with the potential for one optional module.
Students undertaking this course are preparing for nurse practitioner, case manager, nurse consultant and clinical leadership roles.
Course content
You are required to study a number of core modules for this route.
Modules include:
* Advancing nursing knowledge
* Research methods
* Medicines management
* Physical assessment
* Science in healthcare practice
* Independent and supplementary non-medical nurse prescribing
* Advanced clinical practice
You can choose to exit with a Postgraduate Diploma in Nursing or complete a
dissertation for the full award of an MSc