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Advanced Practice (Critical Care), MSc, PG Dip

The University of Bradford, the United Kingdom

The University of Bradford

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MSc, PG DipFull-time1 yearSeptemberGBP 1545 per modulefind out

About Advanced Practice (Critical Care), MSc, PG Dip - at The University of Bradford

This programme is designed to prepare nurses and a range of health and social care professionals for new and challenging roles in advancing and shifting the professional boundaries in critical care.

The Advanced Practice programme at the University of Bradford offers students the opportunity to apply knowledge to a range of clinical and professional situations through reflection and practice experience, supported by an experienced mentor.

It develops skills designed to meet the challenges of delivering and advancing quality healthcare within a global context.

Learning and teaching is designed to equip students with skills in using a range of information, data, tools and techniques to improve the quality of patient care and health outcomes as well as demonstrate impact and value. There is a focus on patient safety, risk assessment and risk management within a clinical governance context.

The programme is intended to:

Provide a flexible educational framework that is vocationally relevant, which meets your professional development needs, as well as the organisational needs of employers

Provide opportunities for inter-professional teaching and learning to share the knowledge, skills and experience common to a range of different health and social care disciplines

Provide a framework within which the curriculum, where required, meets the regulatory needs of professional bodies such as the NMC, GPhC and HCPC and recognised National benchmarks

Stimulate you to become a self-directed learner who is motivated to sustain and advance your own continuous professional learning

Develop your clinical skills, knowledge and critical understanding to an advanced level, applicable to your own field of practice

Further develop your cognitive and practical skills to undertake data synthesis, complex problem solving and risk assessment

Prepare you to become an autonomous practitioner, to work in advanced and specialist roles with high levels of accountability

Develop you as a practitioner who will innovate, promote evidence informed practice and improve service user outcomes

Develop you as a leader with skills and confidence, to act as a role model, supporting the professional development of colleagues and the work of your organisation

Develop you as a critically reflective, competent leader who will manage service development towards effective, sustainable, inclusive, fair and ethically sensitive service provision

Notes about fees for this course

The Student Finance service provides student loans to help pay for tuition fees and the cost of living, depending on your circumstances.

You'll be charged interest on your loan as soon as you take it out, but you only start repayments once you earn more than a certain amount - currently £21,000.

Repayments are based on how much you earn, not how much you've borrowed.

Entry requirements

An overall band score of at least 6.5 in IELTS, with a score of at least 5.5 in each of the four sub-tests.

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