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Developing Advanced Clinical Practice - HEA00125M

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  • Department: Health Sciences
  • Module co-ordinator: Ms. Donna Barnett
  • Credit value: 20 credits
  • Credit level: M
  • Academic year of delivery: 2021-22

Module summary

Exploring the hallmarks of advanced clinical practice; leadership, research, education and clinical practice in the context of own development.

Module will run

Occurrence Teaching period
A Summer Term 2021-22

Module aims

This module will enable you to explore the hallmarks of advanced clinical practice, building your knowledge and skills towards achieving autonomous practice.

Module learning outcomes

  1. Critically reflect upon your increasing autonomy and development as an advanced clinical practitioner in situations that are complex and uncertain

  2. Demonstrate the integration of holistic assessment, diagnostic reasoning, complex decision making and therapeutic intervention in the initiation, management, referral and conclusion of discrete episodes of care delivery.

  3. Critically consider the hallmarks of effective personal and professional leadership when working within and across professional boundaries

  4. Critically reflect on the educational role of the advanced practitioner, applying educational principles to your development of yourself, your peers and patients/clients

Module content

Identifying and managing complexity

Multi-professional learning teaching and working

Leadership theory and practice

Educational leadership and practice

Integrating evidence in care

Clinical practice will focus on progression towards and achievement of the capabilities in the NHS (2017) Multi-professional framework for advanced clinical practice in England

Assessment

Task Length % of module mark
Open Examination: Multiple choice questions online
Open Book Exam		 N/A 100

Special assessment rules

Non-compensatable

Additional assessment information

Formative Assessment

You will develop an action plan to address the capabilities that you want to achieve during this module in conjunction with your clinical supervisor and academic supervisor.  

You will identify a patient with your clinical supervisor who will form the basis of the case study you will use for the open book exam.

Feedback will be provided by your clinical supervisor in relation to your progression towards the capabilities.

Summative Assessment

You will write a case study of no more than 500 words (+/- 10%) which you will agree with your clinical supervisor.  This case study should be based on an episode of care and include reference to; your assessment, diagnostics, differentials, diagnosis, management of the case and your role.  This will not be marked but you will use it in the 60 minute open book examination as the foundation for answering 3 questions.  You may wish to include appropriate references and tables and if you do these will not be counted in the word count.

You will hand your case study in with your exam to allow the marker the context in which you have been answering the questions.  It may be handwritten or typed and if handwritten it must be legible.  The marker will not comment or mark the case study.

 

 This exam will be 90 minutes in length.

Reassessment

Task Length % of module mark
Open Examination: Multiple choice questions online
Open Book Exam		 N/A 100

Module feedback

Feedback will be provided during the tripartite by both academic and clinical assessor. 

For summative assessment, feedback will be provided in accordance withDepartment policy.

Indicative reading

Institute for Apprenticeships & Technical Education (2017) Advanced Clinical Practitioner (Degree) ST0564 https://www.instituteforapprenticeships.org/apprenticeship-standards/advanced-clinical-practitioner-degree/

NHS (2017) Multi-professional framework for advanced clinical practice in England https://www.hee.nhs.uk/our-work/advanced-clinical-practice/multi-professional-framework


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