Advancing Practice Framework - NURT69Part-time postgraduate study for healthcare professionalsThe Advancing Practice Framework provides relevant, stimulating and flexible learning to support the work of a wide range of healthcare practitioners. If you want to advance your role in clinical practice and service improvement, our Advancing Practice Framework will help to develop and enhance the knowledge and skills you need for the real challenges you encounter on a day-to-day basis. The Advancing Practice Framework offers both a general route and a range of specialist routes, all taught at postgraduate level. The taught units are delivered and supported by an academic and clinical partnership. Acknowledged academic expertise in the relevant fields is complemented by practising clinicians, service managers, and service users. |
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Who is it for?
Any registered healthcare professional who has experience of practice and can demonstrate the ability to study at postgraduate level. A first degree is normally required but applicants who can provide evidence of degree level study, for example having successfully completed degree level courses, will be considered. Previous students have included Acute Care Staff Nurses, Community Matrons, Modern Matrons, Operating Department Practitioners, Dieticians, Practice Nurses, and Specialist Practitioners.
The Framework
You can start your masters degree by doing a postgraduate certificate in a specialist area
Following completion of your postgraduate certificate you can progress to a full masters degree by completing two research units, one optional unit/s to the value of 30 credits and a dissertation
- SNM6830 - Research Methodology (online distance learning) - 15 credits
- SNM6840 - Research Design and Application (online distance learning) - 15 credits
- SNM6018 - Dissertation - 60 credits
Optional Units
- SNM624 - Independent/Supplementary Prescribing for Nurses, Midwives and Community Public Health Nurses - 30 credits
- SNM6013 - Advancing Autonomous Practice - 30 credits
- SNM6015 - Leading Practice - 30 credits
Flexibility is built into the Framework in a number of ways:
- you’ll have up to five years of part-time study to complete your award
- you can take units from a number of specialist pathways to gain a postgraduate certificate
- some elements of the Framework are delivered completely online allowing you to study in your own time
- previous learning can count towards your qualification through the process of Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL).
What qualification would I get?
The qualification achieved will depend of which route you take and the point you reach within the framework. On completion of 60 credits you would be awarded a postgraduate certificate, 120 credits a postgraduate diploma and 180 credits a Master of Medical Science.
Contact UsProgramme Leader: Michael Macintosh Tel: 0114 222 2054 Email: m.j.macintosh@sheffield.ac.uk Admissions Officer: Heather Kelly Tel: 0114 222 2048 Email: h.m.kelly@sheffield.ac.uk |
How to ApplyApplications for this course will open soon. If you wish to apply to a postgraduate certificate in a specialist area please see the course page. If you have completed a postgraduate certificate with us and would like to continue onto a masters programme please contact Heather Kelly, Admissions Officer. Fees and Funding If you work with the NHS in Yorkshire and the Humber or East Midlands, you may be eligible for funding click here for more information. |