Advanced Healthcare Practice (MSc) 18 months Postgraduate Programme By Cardiff University |TopUniversities
Programme Duration

18 monthsProgramme duration

Tuitionfee

24,700 GBPTuition Fee/year

Starting Month

SepStarting Month

Programme overview

Main Subject

Health/Healthcare

Degree

MSc

Study Level

Masters

Study Mode

Blended

Our MSc Advanced Healthcare Practice programme aims to develop your knowledge, understanding and critical appreciation of the four pillars of advanced level practice.

It offers you the opportunity to apply learning to advance your leadership and management, facilitation of learning and teaching, and clinical practice skills, all of which are underpinned by evidence, research and service improvement. 

Our programme is suitable for those progressing towards a level of autonomous advanced practice as well as experienced registered health care professionals, already working as advanced practitioners.

Aimed at both home and international students, our unique programme has an optional choice of modules, allowing you to tailor your learning to suit your varying clinical and professional needs and to complement workforce requirements. You will become actively involved in practice development and leadership and the compulsory research and leadership and management components of the programme will equip you with the tools to analyse, evaluate and monitor ever evolving healthcare scenarios and apply learning to your work. 

We promote interdisciplinary learning for the benefit of our students. Our postgraduate course will enable you to work alongside other home and international students from a range of healthcare professions. You will gain wider perspectives, share knowledge and develop approaches and systems to improve healthcare practice. 

Distinctive features

Join a School that puts an emphasis on independent learning in a research-led environment. Here are some of the key features of why we think our MSc programme will make you the best advanced healthcare practitioner you can be:
  • A programme built to suit your needs: You can tailor your module choices in a way that best fits your professional development and career prospects.
  • Programme mapped: to standards for Framework for Advanced Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professional Practice in Wales (NLIAH 2010), Standards for Advanced Level Nursing (RCN 2018) and multi-professional framework for Advanced Healthcare Practice (HEE 2018). The programme is also mapped against the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Standards for Advanced Level Nursing (2018). Nurses who successfully complete the programme will potentially be eligible to apply for credentialing with the RCN: https://www.rcn.org.uk/professional-development/professional-services/credentialing
  • You will become actively involved in practice development: which will influence the quality of care delivered.  It is recognised that leadership in health and quality improvement are central to the delivery of a high standard of patient care, and you will develop these skills across the course of the programme.
  • Make a difference to your education: We offer you the opportunity to become a student representative and shape future educational provision and advise on key elements of your learning. 
  • Wales Centre for Evidence-Based Care: You’ll learn in a School which is an accredited Joanna Briggs Centre; improving the quality and outcomes of healthcare globally.

Programme overview

Main Subject

Health/Healthcare

Degree

MSc

Study Level

Masters

Study Mode

Blended

Our MSc Advanced Healthcare Practice programme aims to develop your knowledge, understanding and critical appreciation of the four pillars of advanced level practice.

It offers you the opportunity to apply learning to advance your leadership and management, facilitation of learning and teaching, and clinical practice skills, all of which are underpinned by evidence, research and service improvement. 

Our programme is suitable for those progressing towards a level of autonomous advanced practice as well as experienced registered health care professionals, already working as advanced practitioners.

Aimed at both home and international students, our unique programme has an optional choice of modules, allowing you to tailor your learning to suit your varying clinical and professional needs and to complement workforce requirements. You will become actively involved in practice development and leadership and the compulsory research and leadership and management components of the programme will equip you with the tools to analyse, evaluate and monitor ever evolving healthcare scenarios and apply learning to your work. 

We promote interdisciplinary learning for the benefit of our students. Our postgraduate course will enable you to work alongside other home and international students from a range of healthcare professions. You will gain wider perspectives, share knowledge and develop approaches and systems to improve healthcare practice. 

Distinctive features

Join a School that puts an emphasis on independent learning in a research-led environment. Here are some of the key features of why we think our MSc programme will make you the best advanced healthcare practitioner you can be:
  • A programme built to suit your needs: You can tailor your module choices in a way that best fits your professional development and career prospects.
  • Programme mapped: to standards for Framework for Advanced Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professional Practice in Wales (NLIAH 2010), Standards for Advanced Level Nursing (RCN 2018) and multi-professional framework for Advanced Healthcare Practice (HEE 2018). The programme is also mapped against the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Standards for Advanced Level Nursing (2018). Nurses who successfully complete the programme will potentially be eligible to apply for credentialing with the RCN: https://www.rcn.org.uk/professional-development/professional-services/credentialing
  • You will become actively involved in practice development: which will influence the quality of care delivered.  It is recognised that leadership in health and quality improvement are central to the delivery of a high standard of patient care, and you will develop these skills across the course of the programme.
  • Make a difference to your education: We offer you the opportunity to become a student representative and shape future educational provision and advise on key elements of your learning. 
  • Wales Centre for Evidence-Based Care: You’ll learn in a School which is an accredited Joanna Briggs Centre; improving the quality and outcomes of healthcare globally.

Admission Requirements

88+
180+
6.5+
69+

In order to be considered for an offer for this programme you will need to meet all of the entry requirements. Your application will not be progressed if the information and evidence listed is not provided.

 


With your online application you will need to provide:


  1. A copy of your qualification certificate and transcripts which show you have achieved an honours degree or a diploma in healthcare, or an equivalent international qualification.
  2. A copy of your IELTS certificate with an overall score of 6.5 with 5.5 in all subskills, or evidence of an accepted equivalent. Please include the date of your expected test if this qualification is pending. If you have alternative acceptable evidence, such as an undergraduate degree studied in the UK, please supply this in place of an IELTS.
  3. A reference from your employer to evidence that you have a minimum of two years’ post-registration experience and currently work in an area relevant to the programme. References should be signed, dated and less than six months old at the time you submit your application.
  4. A personal statement which must address the following points:


  • Why have you selected this programme?
  • What interests you about this programme?
  • Any relevant experience related to the programme or module content.
  • How you plan to use the qualification in your career.
  • How you and your profession will benefit from your studies.
  • Why you feel you should be given a place on the programme.

If you wish to undertake the Professional, Statutory and Regulatory Bodies (PSRB)-related module: HCT353 Advanced Clinical Practice Portfolio you must be currently registered with a UK Professional, Statutory and Regulatory Bodies (PSRBs) and must secure a relevant clinical placement. You will also be required to submit a supplementary application form to complete this module. Please confirm in your personal statement your wish to complete this module so the school admissions team can send you the supplementary form.

18 Months
Sep

Tuition fees

Domestic
9,950 GBP
International
24,700 GBP

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