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Developing Advanced Clinical Practice - HEA00125M

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  • Department: Health Sciences
  • Credit value: 20 credits
  • Credit level: M
  • Academic year of delivery: 2023-24

Module summary

Exploring the hallmarks of advanced clinical practice; leadership, research, education and clinical practice in the context of own development.

Module will run

Occurrence Teaching period
A Summer Term 2023-24 to Summer Vacation 2023-24

Module aims

This module will enable you to explore the hallmarks of advanced clinical practice, building your knowledge and skills towards achieving autonomous practice.

Module learning outcomes

  1. Critically reflect upon your increasing autonomy and development as an advanced clinical practitioner in situations that are complex and uncertain

  2. Demonstrate the integration of holistic assessment, diagnostic reasoning, complex decision making and therapeutic intervention in the initiation, management, referral and conclusion of discrete episodes of care delivery.

  3. Critically consider the hallmarks of effective personal and professional leadership when working within and across professional boundaries

  4. Critically reflect on the educational role of the advanced practitioner, applying educational principles to your development of yourself, your peers and patients/clients

Module content

Identifying and managing complexity

Multi-professional learning teaching and working

Leadership theory and practice

Educational leadership and practice

Integrating evidence in care

Clinical practice will focus on progression towards and achievement of the capabilities in the NHS (2017) Multi-professional framework for advanced clinical practice in England

Indicative assessment

Task % of module mark
Open Examination 100

Special assessment rules

Non-compensatable

Indicative reassessment

Task % of module mark
Open Examination 100

Module feedback

Feedback will be provided during the tripartite by both academic and clinical assessor.

For summative assessment, feedback will be provided in accordance with Department policy.

Indicative reading

Institute for Apprenticeships & Technical Education (2017) Advanced Clinical Practitioner (Degree) ST0564 https://www.instituteforapprenticeships.org/apprenticeship-standards/advanced-clinical-practitioner-degree/

NHS (2017) Multi-professional framework for advanced clinical practice in England https://www.hee.nhs.uk/our-work/advanced-clinical-practice/multi-professional-framework


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