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Healthcare Practice (Taught)

MS · 3 Years · Blended learning (part-time) · · PostgraduateKingston Hill

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Course summary

Reasons to choose Kingston University

  • Our full range of programmes includes free-choice modules, enabling you to create personalised study plans to meet your professional development needs.

  • The course is delivered by experienced and practising clinicians and experts in acute and critical care and advanced practice.

  • This is a flexible programme that recognises your prior learning.

Why choose this course?
This course is designed for practising healthcare professionals, including nurses, midwives, paramedics and other allied health professionals, working across a range of settings.

It offers personal and professional development and will contribute to career advancement within the health and social care sector. There is a mix of compulsory core modules and optional modules. Most modules are available to study on a free-standing basis.

What you will study
You will study two core modules, totalling 45 credits. There is a range of optional modules from which to select the remaining 135 credits to personalise learning to your sphere of professional practice, career aspirations and service needs. You can also book individual modules through your employer with the Kingston University CPD Health Online Prospectus and Application Portal.

Core modules

  • Applied Research Methods

  • Capstone Project

Optional modules (subject to availability)

  • 12 Lead ECG Interpretation

  • Acutely Unwell Adult

  • Adult Critical Care Polytrauma: Assessment and Management

  • Adult Critical Care: Patient Assessment

  • Adult Critical Care: Patient Management

  • Advanced Clinical Reasoning in Health Assessment: Lifespan Perspectives

  • Advanced Practice: Minor Ailment Management

  • Advanced Practice: Minor Injury Management

  • Anaesthetic Practice

  • Cardiac Arrhythmias: Interpretation and Management

  • Cardiac Care: Patient Assessment and Management

  • Emergency Practice

  • Examination of the Newborn

  • General Practice Nursing: Fundamentals of Care

  • High Dependency Issues in Maternity Care

  • Improvement and Implementation Science: Principles for Practice

  • Independent/Supplementary Prescribing for Nurses and Midwives (V300)

  • Leadership in Advanced Clinical Practice

  • Mentoring and Coaching in Professional Practice

  • Perinatal Mental Health

  • Post Anaesthetic Care: Principles and Practice

  • Professional Advocate

  • Renal Dialysis: Principles of Care

  • Renal Dysfunction: Complexities of Care

  • Respiratory Care for the Acute Setting

  • Theatre Practice

  • Trauma Care: Initial Assessment and Management

  • Work based learning (15 credits)

  • Work based learning (30 credits)

  • Work based learning (60 credits)

  • Working with Families, Carers and Significant Others

Modules

Core modules

Applied Research Methods
Capstone Project
Optional modules(subject to availability)

12 Lead ECG Interpretation
Acutely Unwell Adult
Adult Critical Care Polytrauma: Assessment and Management
Adult Critical Care: Patient Assessment
Adult Critical Care: Patient Management
Advanced Clinical Reasoning in Health Assessment: Lifespan Perspectives
Advanced Practice: Minor Ailment Management
Advanced Practice: Minor Injury Management
Anaesthetic Practice
Cardiac Arrhythmias: Interpretation and Management
Cardiac Care: Patient Assessment and Management
Emergency Practice
Examination of the Newborn
General Practice Nursing: Fundamentals of Care
High Dependency Issues in Maternity Care
Improvement and Implementation Science: Principles for Practice
Independent/Supplementary Prescribing for Nurses and Midwives (V300)
Leadership in Advanced Clinical Practice
Mentoring and Coaching in Professional Practice
Perinatal Mental Health
Post Anaesthetic Care: Principles and Practice
Professional Advocate
Renal Dialysis: Principles of Care
Renal Dysfunction: Complexities of Care
Respiratory Care for the Acute Setting
Theatre Practice
Trauma Care: Initial Assessment and Management
Work based learning (15 credits)
Work based learning (30 credits)
Work based learning (60 credits)
Working with Families, Carers and Significant Others

Assessment method

Module-related assessment methods include assignments, essays, presentations, work-based projects, practice-based snapshots of care, critical reflections on care, OSCE practical examinations and a 'capstone' research project.

Qualified teacher status (QTS)

To work as a teacher at a state school in England or Wales, you will need to achieve qualified teacher status (QTS). This is offered on this course for the following level:

  • Course does not award QTS

Ways to study this course

Campuses

  • Kingston Hill

Study options

  • MS • Blended learning (part-time) • 3 Years

Start dates

Open days

Entry requirements

Honours degree 2:2 or above from a UK or Republic of Ireland university.
Honours degree equivalent to a 2:2 or above from an approved institution of higher education outside the UK and Republic of Ireland will be accepted.
Non-standard applicants may be considered.

All applicants:
All applicants will normally hold a professional healthcare qualification, current UK professional registration and have six month's post-qualifying practice experience.
Module specific practice-related requirements and additional entry criteria may apply to specified modules and will be indicated in the module outlines.
No Disclosure and Barring Services (DBS) clearance required.
A minimum Academic IELTS of 7.0 overall, with 6.5 in writing and 7.0 in all other elements, is required for those for whom English is not their first language.

Alternative routes
Short course applicants
Applicants wishing to take modules from the programme as free-standing CPD may do so without registering for an award, up to a value of 60 credits. Short course enrolment leading to an accumulation of 60 (or more) free-standing credits will normally lead to programme enrolment. Short course applicants must meet programme entry requirements.

Recognition of prior learning (RPL)
Applicants may offer prior certificated learning in the form of free-standing credit or interim postgraduate awards up to the credit values specified below:

120 credits of the 180 credits required for the MSc
75 credits of the 120 credits required for the Postgraduate Diploma
30 credits of the 60 credits required for the Postgraduate Certificate.
RPL claims are assessed to ensure prior learning is current (normally credit will have been gained no longer than five years prior to enrolment on the course) and matches specific modules in the programme.

St George's University of London students who gained credit on the earlier Joint Faculty version of the programmes referred to in this Programme Specification may apply to RPL in both the credits awarded and the grades.

Non-standard applicants
Non-standard applicants may be considered if they hold one of the following: ·

Diploma (HE) and free-standing L6 credit* (minimum 30 credits B grade or above) or
Third class or ordinary degree which includes evidence of a minimum of 30 credits at L6, B grade or above.
PgCert or 60 free-standing Level 7 credits* without a diploma (HE).
*Free-standing credit awarded within the past 5 years.

Qualifications must be from a UK or Republic of Ireland university, or equivalent qualification from an approved institution of higher education outside the UK and Republic of Ireland.

Fees and funding

Tuition fees

No fee information has been provided for this course

Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website.

Additional fee information

Tuition fees for UK and international students will shortly be confirmed, please check back at the end of October.

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