Course Details
Students can choose six modules from those listed, but some are specialist modules and require the student to be working in a relevant area of practice. All students must complete one of the compulsory modules and a dissertation.
Acute and Critical Care: Designed for practitioners from a wide variety of critical care environments who wish to advance their clinical practice, develop their professional career and enhance their knowledge of research and evidence-based health care in the critical setting:
•Health Assessment
•Specialist Assessment of the Cardiac Patient
Cancer Nursing: Supportive and Palliative Care: Designed to allow a flexible postgraduate programme of study for experienced oncology and palliative care practitioners, who wish to extend their academic and clinical capability to meet the needs of their patients:
•The Basis of Therapeutic Practice and Communication Skills
•Dimensions of Practice
Leadership and Management: Designed to offer an advanced educational foundation to enable health and social care professionals to lead and manage effectively:
•Leading and Facilitating in Clinical Practice
•Successful Leading for Health and Social Care Professionals
Maternal and Child Health: Practice-focused educational pathway of advanced study for practitioners who are closely involved in the provision of health and social care for women, babies, children, young people and their families. Educational innovations are used to promote learning and facilitate the delivery of excellence in the form of evidence-based quality care at the highest level:
•Perspectives of Family-centred Health and Social Care
Mental Health and the Older Adult: Designed to develop practitioners' critical awareness of the broader contexts and influences that impact on older people and those requiring support in the maintenance of their mental health. Practitioners with an academic interest in concepts such as successful ageing and ageing well will be enabled to critically review the current political and social influences associated with demographic change, ageing and globalisation:
•Fundamentals of CBT Assessment
•Rethinking Ageing
General Optional Modules
•Clinical Inquiry and Applied Practice Based Research
•Law for Healthcare Professionals
•Pharmacotherapeutics for Practice
•Independent Study Module
Compulsory Modules
Applied Research Methods and Statistics in Nursing
OR
Qualitative Research Methods
All students must undertake a six-week period of Clinical Practice and a Dissertation Module in the second year of the programme. Clinical Practice will be hands-on and will take place within the Northern Ireland Health Service with one of our internationally recognised clinical training partners. Module choices are subject to availability and the approval of the Programme Director. This flexible approach to study is designed to meet the needs of students coming from diverse backgrounds and differing specialty areas. The 15,000-word dissertation must be based on a study that contains evidence of critical thinking along with rational and cogent arguments and debate. The study will be based on current thinking and provide evidence of research, knowledge and skills at Masters level.
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Learning and Teaching
At Queen's, we aim to deliver a high quality learning environment that embeds intellectual curiosity, innovation and best practice in learning, teaching and student support to enable student to achieve their full academic potential.
On the Msc in Advanced Professional and Clinical Practice we do this by providing a range of learning experiences which enable our students to engage with subject experts, develop attributes and perspectives that will equip them for life and work in a global society and make use of innovative technologies and a world class library that enhances their development as independent, lifelong learners.
Teaching is across a combination of morning, evening and afternoon classes with some modules being taught entirely online.
Examples of the opportunities provided for learning on this course include; lectures, practical experiences, E-Learning technologies, Self-directed study and added value qualifications to enhance employability.