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MSc, Postgraduate Diploma, Postgraduate Certificate:
Advancing Professional Practice (AHPs, Nursing and Midwifery)
KEY FEATURES: The most important value that informs this programme is work-based learning, which will be incorporated as a stimulating and challenging approach to programme delivery.
This programme is distinctive because it will centre on the application of learning in the workplace and evidence-based assessment of practice and achievement, in order to relate the programme of study to the
individual’s role of the practitioner.
WHO IS IT FOR? Qualified allied health professionals; qualified nurses and midwives.
LEVEL: MSc; Postgraduate Diploma; Postgraduate Certificate.
MODE OF STUDY: Part-time.
LENGTH OF PROGRAMME: PG Certificate: one year; PG Diploma: two years; MSc: three years.
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: Prospective students will normally:
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Hold current first level Professional Registration with a relevant regulatory body e.g., Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC); Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC); General Social Care Council (GSCC);

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Have an identified work-based facilitator within their practice area, who will support and guide their development throughout the phases of the programme;

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Be working in clinical practice. Some potential/prospective student’s maybe managers/educators within the healthcare arena;

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Hold an undergraduate degree, ideally 2.2 or higher, in a related subject with a period of two years’ time in professional practice;

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Practitioners with extensive practice experience and no formal undergraduate degree will be considered by evidence presented within their professional portfolio and discussion at interview;

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Accreditation of Prior Certificated Learning (APCL)/Prior Experiential Learning (APEL): In some cases the student may be allowed to apply for accreditation of prior learning, undertaken either at Keele or at
another Higher Education Institution. These credits must have been gained within five years previous to their joining the current programme of study.

COURSE OVERVIEW: This exciting, contemporary and Faculty-based flexible programme focuses on higher academic study underpinning a higher level of professional practice in healthcare. It is designed to provide
the health and social care practitioner with a stimulating and rigorous analysis of health care practice.
It will have an interdisciplinary and interprofessional focus and aims to prepare practitioners to lead and manage change in a global health care environment. It will combine conceptual, theoretical and practical
work-based learning approaches to the study of health and social care practice and provide the opportunity for the practitioner to develop skills and expertise to an advanced level.
The student will be able to map out a series of learning outcomes based on learning opportunities available in the workplace which represents an exploration of work focused and work related issues complemented by
taught modules. Within the MSc Advancing Professional Practice, there are five possible pathways for you to choose from.  Each one is based upon contemporary clinical practice. 
THE FIVE PATHWAYS ARE: End of Life Care; Paediatric Endocrinology; Nursing; Midwifery; and a Generic pathway.
One of the significant values that inform each route is work-based learning, which is incorporated in a stimulating and challenging way. It creates a distinctive, individual approach as it centres on the application of
learning in the workplace and evidence-based assessment of practice and achievement.

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