Advanced Clinical Practice

Advanced Clinical Assessment and Examination

Develop your competence, knowledge, understanding, confidence and clinical skills in advanced clinical assessment and examination, including complex history taking and physical examination techniques, underpinned with understanding illness and disease progression and resultant symptoms. 

Clinical Reasoning and Leadership

Clinical reasoning and leadership are seen as key skills that healthcare practitioners working at an advanced level need to possess. Without these skills, there is clear evidence that patients come to harm. Learning about clinical reasoning is seen as essential to meet the demands of today.

This module enables practitioners to understand the key theoretical underpinnings of clinical reasoning and leadership. You will benefit from innovative digital teaching methods and clinical simulation in a multi-million pound healthcare campus. This module builds upon history taking and clinical examination skills to provide an immersive simulation lead design.

Clinical Reasoning and Leadership

Clinical reasoning and leadership are seen as key skills that healthcare practitioners working at an advanced level need to possess. Without these skills, there is clear evidence that patients come to harm. Learning about clinical reasoning is seen as essential to meet the demands of today.

This module enables practitioners to understand the key theoretical underpinnings of clinical reasoning and leadership. You will benefit from innovative digital teaching methods and clinical simulation in a multi-million pound healthcare campus. This module builds upon history taking and clinical examination skills to provide an immersive simulation lead design.

Non-Medical Prescribing

You will select a pathway as part of this module, choosing from Pharmacist-independent prescribing, Nurse-independent and supplementary prescribing or Physiotherapist, Chiropodist, Podiatrist and Paramedic independent supplementary prescribing.

The Deteriorating Child

This module will provide you with the theoretical underpinning knowledge that is required to recognise the deteriorating child. The module is taught by academic staff and current practicing clinicians who are experts in their field. You will learn how to use a systematic approach of assessment to identify and treat the deteriorating child presenting with a variety of chronic and acute conditions.

Triage and Rapid Assessment in Pre-hospital, Primary and Secondary Care

Most healthcare environments have elements of triage. There are often formal triage structures in place prioritising treatment or patient care. But, we also triage subconsciously in everyday clinical practice.

This module will provide you with the theoretical underpinning knowledge that is required to begin to explore your own experiences of triage. You will understand when and why triage is necessary as well as the current evidence base behind decision making. The module is taught by academic staff and current practising clinicians who are experts in their field.

Ethical Decision Making

The complexities and challenges of clinical practice continue to develop in respect to social, cultural and political factors. Relative to this, practitioners are now faced with complex ethical dilemmas to navigate, and an increase in advanced roles has seen a need emerge with respect to more autonomous decision. This 10 credit module provides an opportunity for post-graduate students to evaluate clinical ethical dilemmas through an application of extensive moral theory and decision making models, fostering the development and refinement of moral reasoning.

Driving Specialist Developments

Self as Leader

In this module, you will critically evaluate the contribution and role of leaders to organisational, practice and professional development, and to identify your own leadership attributes and approach. You'll also critically analyse and evaluate your leadership through the skilful synthesis of theory, frameworks, personal reflection and feedback. Finally, you will draw reasoned conclusions about the strategies necessary to support your future development as a healthcare leader.

Research and Literature Review Methods

Practitioners in all health professional disciplines need to understand the principles of research, to know how knowledge is created and can be evaluated, and to apply the findings of research in the practice setting. You'll identify and critically evaluate research that informs important aspects of your practice. 

Electrocardiograph (ECG) interpretation

This module will provide you with the theoretical underpinning knowledge that is required to begin to interpret ECGs in clinical practice. The module is taught by academic staff and current practicing clinicians who are experts in their field. You will learn how systematically interpret and relate a variety of ECGs to acute disease pathologies and a variety of long term cardiac conditions.

Chest Radiograph (X-Ray) Interpretation

This module will provide you with the theoretical underpinning knowledge that is required to begin to interpret chest radiographs in clinical practice. The module is taught by academic staff and current practicing clinicians who are experts in their field. You will learn how to identify anatomical landmarks, systematically interpret and relate a variety chronic and acute disease pathologies to a variety of high definition chest radiographs. 

Haematological and Biochemistry Interpretation

This module will provide you with the underpinning knowledge that is required to begin to interpret Haematological (the full blood count) and Biochemistry (electrolytes, urea and creatinine and liver function) tests in clinical practice. The module is taught by academic staff and current practising clinicians who are experts in their field. You will learn how to interpret these tests in relation to specific disease pathologies and how these tests can be used to form a differential diagnosis or confirm a diagnosis.

Health Promotion

An opportunity for you to study alongside colleagues from various professions and agencies within a virtual learning platform. The Module indicative content will facilitate valuable learning encompassing local resources relevant to their area of care with a particular focus on epidemiology and social determinants of health. Successful completion of the Module will enable those practitioners with a particular interest in Health Promotion to develop and enhance pre-existing knowledge, skills and experience. Learning will support those who face daily challenges supporting individuals; groups; and communities to adopt positive health behaviours and healthy lifestyles.

Infection, Immunity and Anti-Microbial Therapies

Develop your knowledge, confidence and competence in providing care for patients with infections. Building upon your clinical experience and case studies from practice, you will be challenged to interrogate the evidence that underpins clinical decisions.

Quality/Service Improvement Project

Consolidating Advanced Practice