Person-Centred
Practice and
Post-Registration
Nursing
The postgraduate portfolio which
includes the MSc Person-Centred
Practice Framework reflects the
burgeoning focus on person-
centredness set within the contemporary
context of health and social care
integration and the health and wellbeing
agenda. This reflects professional and
service needs, as identified by the
relevant professional bodies, other
stakeholders and policy drivers. The
framework offers practitioners from
different contexts the opportunity to
develop their studies and to enhance
their knowledge and expertise of
person-centred practice through a
flexible structure, designed to meet their
needs and those of the wider
community.
We live and work in a multi-professional
and multi-faceted health and social care
environment. The need to be cognisant
and masterful in dealing with the
concepts of research, enquiry,
abstraction and unpredictability has
seldom been so important. The
challenge of promoting person-
centredness in such an environment
requires skilled and talented practitioners
who can operate in advanced clinical,
educational, managerial and research-
based roles.
reputation as a major contributor to
practice development on an international
basis. Students on our master’s courses
also reap the benefits of learning with
students from other cultures. As a
postgraduate student, the opportunities
to gain invaluable experience through
applying your learning directly to your
workplace allow you to contribute to the
modernisation of healthcare and nursing
globally.
QMU is a leading provider of master’s
level studies in Scotland. We offer a MSc
Person-centred Practice Framework
which incorporates the:
• MSc Person-Centred Practice);
• MSc/PgDip/PgCert Person-
Centred Practice (Public Health
and Wellbeing);
• MSc/PgDip/PgCert Person-
Centred Practice (Mental Health
and Wellbeing);
• MSc/ PgDip/PgCert Person-
Centred Practice (Palliative Care)
(in partnership with St Columba’s
Hospice);
• PgDip Person-Centred Practice
(District Nursing);
• PgDip Person-Centred Practice
(Health Visiting) and
Why QMU?
The team at QMU is working at national
and international level to develop the role
and reputation of nursing and healthcare
throughout the world. With
collaborations in many countries across
the globe, QMU has developed a
•
PgDip Person-Centred Practice
(School Nursing).
We also contribute to the core modules
for the MSc Professional and Higher
Education (see page 54) which gives
recording of teacher qualifications with
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the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
These courses focus on the application
of knowledge to practice through offering
sound work-based elements which are
clinically focused and practice orientated
to ensure participants can maximise and
focus their learning in their own specialist
areas.
We also offer the MSc Cognitive
Behavioural Therapy and a new PgCert
Mental Health and Wellbeing.
All of our modules can be taken as
stand-alone CPD modules, where you
register as an associate student to study
single modules as CPD that can be
packaged to offer you either a degree
top-up or graduate certificate award. For
more information on our CPD courses,
please see visit www.qmu.ac.uk/
study-here/continuing-professional-
development-cpd-courses/
We have close links with the healthcare
industry in Scotland, across the UK and
internationally. Our internal experts
have many years of experience in
education, practice research and policy.
They ensure that there is a real focus on
the individual student’s future working
needs embedded into the postgraduate
study.
Industry links
By maintaining very close links with the
healthcare industry, we ensure that our
courses are current and relevant. The
linking of your experiences as a nurse
with academic study allows for the
development of an understanding of the