MSc Advanced Clinical Practice | Part-time

Within this module the student will be supported to consider the following in relation to their own area of specialist practice:

• Enhancing clinical practice within their own sphere of influence
• Enhancing and driving quality
• promoting and sharing best practice 
• Developing practice within the context of health needs of the population
• Effective communication and working in partnership

Within this module you will cover the following:

• Emergency care - context and setting
• Trauma management - how this differs in in and out of hospital settings
• Policies and drivers for trauma response - reflections on national incidents - JESOP
• Contemporary management and innovation in emergency care
• Managing emergency presentations
• Systems based presentations including, bleeding, head injury, cardiovascular collapse, drowning and hypothermia, overdose and reduced consciousness
• Mental Health assessment
• Metabolic emergencies

This module will allow students to

• Explore the applied pathophysiology of commonly presenting mental health conditions, respiratory, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, renal and urological, neurological, haematological and immunological diseases.
• Understand how and genetic and environmental factors affect physiological mechanisms that lead to disease
• Develop understanding of how therapeutic interventions can change underlying pathophysiology and reduce the impact of disease 

The module will cover:

• Appropriate assessment of the presenting complaint
• Common and acute surgical presentations covering general surgery, cardiothoracic and vascular, colorectal, urological, gynaecology, ENT and plastic surgery
• Diagnostic investigations pertinent to acute medical presentations
• Analysis of policies and guidance relating to surgical preparation of the patient 
• Post-operative management and complications

The module will cover:

• Appropriate assessment of the patient with an acute medical presentation
• Common acute medical presentations
• Diagnostic investigations pertinent to acute medical presentations
• Developing clinical reasoning skills for defensible decision making in acute medicine
• Analysis of policies and guidance relating to acute medicine 

   

The module will cover:

• Key areas of public health focus as set out in the NHS Long Term Plan (2019); Prevention, Smoking, Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes, Diet and Alcohol, Antimicrobial Resistance and Vaccinations, Cancer, Mental Health, Air Pollution, Children and Maternity Care and Gambling.

• Approaches to health education, health promotion and public health

• Empowering people to manage their health

• Social marketing and communication.

• Political and ethical issues relating to health education, health promotion, and public health

• Barriers and challenges related to improving the health of the public

Module content will cover:

• An overview of urgent care services including general practice, 111, walk-in-centres and urgent care centres
• Prioritising healthcare need through advanced assessment and triage
• Recognising red flags in patient presentations across the lifespan 
• Common and rarer presentations in urgent care across the lifespan and the associated therapeutic interventions
• Clinical decision making in urgent care
• Scope of practice, professional boundaries and competence

Managing the deteriorating patient allows the learner to explore the complexity associated with recognising and responding to early signs of deterioration in patients across a range of settings. Based on national patient safety guidance it entails in-depth exploration of the factors that influence incidents relating to deterioration and the underlying causes for these. It also enables the student to develop knowledge in the early recognition of signs and symptoms that present during early deterioration across a range of systems including the deteriorating neurological, respiratory, renal and septic patients, and compensatory mechanisms, and considers patient examples and how to escalate and manage care within different settings. 

This module runs over 15 weeks including the assessment point and each session is 3 hours in length. 

This module aligns to following capabilities within the Multiprofessional Framework for Advanced Clinical Practitioners (HEE, 2017):

1.1; 1.6; 1.8; 2.8; 2.10; 4.4. 

This module will help you to develop your knowledge and skills so that you are able to provide high quality care that is based on sound clinical judgement and robust evidence. It will cover areas including:

• The evolution of cardiovascular care and the role of evidence
• Advanced anatomy and physiology of the heart and circulation
• Physical assessment of the cardiac patient
• Haemodynamic assessment and intervention
• Single and 12 lead ECG interpretation
• Introduction to biochemistry and haematology
• Cardiac pharmacology and patient concordance
• Care of the patient post cardiac intervention
• Managing patients with complex heart failure in the acute setting
• Advanced life support
• Promoting healthy behaviour change through cardiac rehabilitation and secondary prevention
• Supporting patients from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds to navigate the healthcare systems
• Caring for patients who are nearing the end of life and supporting grieving families

This module is suitable for students wishing to develop an understanding of common mental health conditions and psychosis as an acute presentation. 

This module will run for 15 weeks and will consist of 12 x 3 hour face to face 'lectures' with additional 'online' learning time allocated to the module delivery.

This module has been mapped to the following capabilities of the Multiprofessional Framework for Advanced Clinical Practice In England (HEE, 2017):

1.4; 1.5; 1.7; 

Aimed at healthcare professionals registered with the HCPC & NMC, this module enables you to prescribe, safely, appropriately and cost-effectively as independent and/or supplementary prescribers, in accordance with both legal and professional requirements.

The module will prepare you to:

• complete an assessment of a patient/client/service users whilst developing a management plan in relation to their diagnosis/differential diagnosis. 
• complete an episode of care through prescribing or deprescribing safety

All students who wish to undertake Independent & Supplementary Prescribing also known as V300 Non-Medical Prescribing will have to complete an additional 'North West Non-Medical Prescribing Application form' which will be approved by the prescribing programme team prior to commencement on the independent and supplementary prescribing programme.

This module will centre on the major physiological systems and build upon students’ prior knowledge and expertise. This will inform greater understanding of the causes and management of common childhood illnesses, and their diagnosis. Wider determinants of health and associated risk factors will be considered to inform decision making and ensure safe practice. Issues related to professional development and advancing clinical practice will be discussed.

This module will help you to develop a critical understanding of psychosocial suicide prevention approaches. You will be able to critically appraise and reflect on the application of these approaches in practice.